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Avalanche: Little Water Peak

Observer Name
Kikkert
Observation Date
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Avalanche Date
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Mill Creek Canyon » Little Water » Little Water Peak
Location Name or Route
Little Water Peak
Elevation
9,600'
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Weak Layer
Graupel
Depth
16"
Width
150'
Vertical
300'
Comments

Little Water Peak has seen a couple of slides in the past week, the most recent of which is the data entered. Looks like the entire bowl, except perhaps the small subridge between the two sides of the bowl, slid to the ground in the early part of the storm, perhaps as early as Friday night or Saturday morning as a fair amount of new snow had built back in. Then the center of the bowl looked to natural again, new snow only, later in the storm, perhaps Saturday night or Sunday. So portions of the bowl have about 2.5 feet of new snow on top of what is left of the old depth hoar, with the portion that slid having about a foot of snow on top of a small amount of depth hoar. Photos below: 1) the crown along the ridgeline of the most recent new snow slide, 2) the track with debris from the most recent slide in the foreground and rough debris from the deep slide just visible at the bottom, and 3) photo of the snow left on the bed surface with a couple notes.

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