Avalanche: All areas

Observer Name
Hardesty, Vargas, Marlowe
Observation Date
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Avalanche Date
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Region
Salt Lake » All areas
Location Name or Route
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
North
Slope Angle
40°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Intentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Dry Loose
Depth
3"
Width
40'
Vertical
350'
Comments

Widespread natural and human triggered sluffing in the weakening snow surface. Very manageable. Can be your friend if intentionally sluffing out previous tracks....can be less so if it knocks someone off their feet and rag-dolls them over cliff bands or buries them in a gully.

Check photo below - touring party walks across the debris of one sluff only to have another sluff wash over their skin track moments later....

Comments

With so much sluffing going on today (and yesterday), it's hard to imagine skinning up the barrel of the gun with so much hanging above you. You'll have to look hard to see the two people way too close together on the uptrack. Better to climb the ridge to looker's left of the apron and enter the line up high.

Comments

Small soft slab pocket beneath White Baldy. Unsure of time of release - at the end of the storm perhaps.

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