Avalanche: South Hollow

Observer Name
Toby Weed
Observation Date
Friday, March 16, 2012
Avalanche Date
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Region
Logan » Left Hand Fork-Blacksmith Fork » Richards Hollow » South Hollow
Location Name or Route
Below Sunday Camp Saddle
Elevation
8,600'
Aspect
East
Slope Angle
38°
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Wet Slab
Weak Layer
Depth Hoar
Depth
3'
Width
200'
Vertical
300'
Comments

We stumbled across these recent large wet slab avalanches, looking down into South Hollow from the Sunday Camp Saddle in Providence Canyon. The broad and deep slabs appear to have been triggered by wet sluffs that initiated in the rocks above and overran the steep slopes below. The avalanches ran on basal layer depth hoar, cleaning out the entire shallow winter's snowpack... I'm not sure when in the last few days these ran, but I'm guessing on the very warm ides of March (3-15-2012)......

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