Avalanche: Bear River Range

Observer Name
Eric Flygare
Observation Date
Friday, January 20, 2012
Avalanche Date
Friday, January 20, 2012
Region
Logan » Bear River Range
Location Name or Route
Goal Posts
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
North
Slope Angle
Unknown
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

When we got home there was a break in the clouds and we got out the spotting scope to see what had been happening. Both goalposts ran some time during the storm. The crown was partially buried by new snow but you could tell that both had run. There were a ton of small slides above north Logan and Hyde park on west and northwest facing slopes. The most significant of them was at the head of Hyde Park canyon where it looked like the slide was 600 to 800 feet wide and ran about 1000 feet on a west southwest slope. I tried to get pictures but by the time I got the camera out the clouds had moved back in. The crown didn't appear to be too deep but from 7 miles away it was hard to tell too much.

I forgot to mention that Amy spotted a nice sized avalanche off the west side of big baldy. Not sure how big but I would guess it was 100 feet wide and ran 500 vert. Sorry I didn't get any pictures.

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