Observer Name
Hathcock
Observation Date
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Avalanche Date
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Silver Fork » Davenport Hill
Location Name or Route
Davenport Hill
Elevation
10,000'
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Snowboarder
Trigger: additional info
Intentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Dry Loose
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
12"
Width
25'
Comments
Went out for a beta walk to discover a weak and shallow snowpack, to no surprise. In my opinion nothing was rideable, but I was still able to intentionally trigger a facet sluff that gouged 1 foot deep, fanned out to ~25 feet wide and ran about 200 vertical feet. This was on a Northeast aspect at 10,000ft.
I also had small localized collapsing and cracking around buried roots and rocks on shady aspects. The snow was shallow across the drainage with the deepest windloaded aspects barely reaching 2ft.
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