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Avalanche: Dutch Draw

Observer Name
Brackelsberg
Observation Date
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Avalanche Date
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline » Dutch Draw
Location Name or Route
Conehead/Dutch Draw/Canyons Perimeter
Elevation
9,900'
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Snowboarder
Trigger: additional info
Unintentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
Cornice
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
12"
Comments

Our group was walking the Park City Ridgeline exploring the various activity from the past 2 days. As we were looking at the cornice on Conehead above Dutch Draw we witnessed a snowboarder walk along the ridge, out onto the cornice and break the cornice off riding it down ~6-8'. He hesitated for a few minutes, then put his board on and rode down about 1/3 of the slope, then stopped mid-slope (and mid-path) and took photos of the slide. Had he not stopped when he broke off the cornice, he would have had a very dangerous ride.

The slide ran ~2/3 of the slope and left some large debris chunks.

I believe the slide would be classified HS-ACu-R1-D2-I

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