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Observer Name
Ian
Observation Date
Friday, March 29, 2024
Avalanche Date
Friday, March 29, 2024
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Silver Fork » East Bowl
Location Name or Route
East Bowl
Elevation
10,300'
Aspect
West
Trigger
Skier
Avalanche Type
Dry Loose
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Depth
4"
Width
20'
Comments
A skier cut while traveling across the rocky, steeper start zone in east bowl around 230 pm started a small sluff in dry snow that ran quite a way down the slope. It was interesting to see the transition to wet slide characteristics and some channeling with the small decrease in slope angle as the sluff ran lower. A previous party had triggered similar sluffing nearby. Neither were very large and in the right terrain would still be a problem. As we migrated to the north facing slopes we found even the most protected aspects seemed to have already been warmed considerably. Around 9500 we noted a N facing slope with a natural that seemed to have the same wet snow chunk appearances. There will be quite a bit of refrozen sun affect out there until we get enough fresh to cover
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