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Avalanche: Mt Aire

Observer Name
Kendall Card
Observation Date
Friday, February 26, 2010
Avalanche Date
Friday, February 26, 2010
Region
Salt Lake » Parleys Canyon » Mt Aire
Location Name or Route
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
Trigger
Unknown
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

Not sure if anyone submitted it or if it's worth mentioning but as I was driving down Parley's today I stopped and saw 3 different skier triggered pockets on the Mount Aire sub peak...the first being on the very top of this sub peak (it's the one that you summit first on your way to the summit proper when approaching from the off ramp at Lambs), the second in the lookers left bowl of this sub peak and in an area that I've not before seen a slide. It looks to have been 30' wide and ran 30-50' down hill. The last pocket pulled out on the lookers right bowl from a skier turn. This one looked to be only about 15-20' wide but it ran the entire distance of the bowl which is approx 400-500' long. Other tracks stuck to the central ridge for ascending and descending. I hope someone gets images or close up report - I saw a lone skier skinning up there this morning. There were 7 cars there yesterday morning. What has been considered a "safe" spot by many is really reacting this year to the snowpack we've got.

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