Avalanche: South Monitor Bowl

Observer Name
Scott House
Observation Date
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Avalanche Date
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline » Monitors » South Monitor Bowl
Location Name or Route
Elevation
9,700'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
27°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Remotely Triggered
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Depth
Unknown
Width
600'
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

The third and fourth are pictures of the avalanche our group remotely triggered in South Monitor Bowl off the Park City ridge line.

Comments

The slide was most definitely a wind slab. The wind was moving a fair amount of snow from the southerly slopes to the northerly aspects.

Comments

Started our day heading up the north ridge of "No Name" Bowl on the Park City side. We got our first collapse about 2 minutes out of the car with a thunderous whumph. From that point on we experienced shooting cracks and collapsing approximately every 5 to 10 steps for the remainder of our day all the way back to the trail head.

This is what looked like 3 naturals in Radar Love Bowl due to wind loading. These looked to be from early today or yesterday. The wind was still transporting a fair amount of snow from the south into the northerly aspects when we observed the avalanches, and the paths were starting to fill back in at around 3pm today.

After reading the forecast this morning, and then taking into account our observations it seems it was more HIGH with pockets of Considerable, and perhaps today's forecast may be more suited to tomorrow.

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