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Avalanche: Argenta

Observer Name
Randy Rasmussen
Observation Date
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Avalanche Date
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Mill D South » Kessler » Argenta
Location Name or Route
Elevation
10,100'
Aspect
Northwest
Trigger
Unknown
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
700'
Comments

My partner and I where climbing up the Argenta slide path on an uptrack near the west side of the run. We were almost a top when we saw an avalanche coming down a steep, rocky, NW facing chute. We heard some celebratory sounding voices coming from the rigdeline. No one came down the slide path, nor did they answer our calls asking if they needed help. I assume if was human triggered, intentional or not I don't know, but no one appeared to be caught in it or hurt. It seemed to clean out the chute, the cloud briefly obscured the whole upper basin. None Some big wind features at the top of the slidepath, lower down it was wind protected.

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