Avalanche: Garden City Canyon

Observer Name
Ward
Observation Date
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Avalanche Date
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Region
Logan » Garden City Canyon
Location Name or Route
Garden City
Elevation
8,500'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
32°
Trigger
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Weak Layer
Depth Hoar
Depth
2'
Width
50'
Vertical
90'
Comments

While skinning on the Garden City Ridge, I heard a whoomphing and saw cracks shoot just below the ridgeline. I was 75 feet west of the main Garden City bowl. The terrain below me was between 28-30 degrees, so cracking and buckling was the only result. I followed the cracks and buckles along the ridgeline. About 600 feet from the initial cracking, I could see that I had sympathetically released a small soft slab on a 32 degree rollover about 100 feet off the ridge.

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