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Avalanche: Tanners Gulch

Observer Name
Ryan C
Observation Date
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Tanners Gulch
Location Name or Route
Tanner's Gulch
Elevation
10,800'
Aspect
South
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Wet Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wet Snow
Depth
Unknown
Comments
Avalanche debris throughout all of Tanner's Gulch. Not from one large slide, but from many. Don't know when it slid, but I'm sure it was due to the heat. I'm not knowledgeable about the type of snow grains, so take a look at the pictures. Didn't quite seem like graupel because they were so big and wet. The round snow grains were right underneath the bed surface at around 8700ft or so. It differed throughout Tanner's, but higher up it was facets underneath the bed surface. Snow was damp below about 8000ft, and even wetter by the time we got down at 9am today. Visibility was low above 9000ft, so I didn't take many pictures, and there were too many debris piles to take pictures of all of them.
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