Avalanche: Little Superior

Observer Name
mark white
Observation Date
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Avalanche Date
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Little Superior
Location Name or Route
Little Superior Buttress SE facing
Elevation
10,500'
Aspect
Southeast
Slope Angle
36°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Unintentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
3'
Width
200'
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

Saw this slide triggered this morning on SE facing LSB, not sure if they were trying to ski it or just got too far out on the slab while hiking. Winds were blowing from the NE in the strong category transporting snow from NE facing LSB onto the SE facing. The crown was 3.5ft at it deepest and tapered down on the ends. The crown revealed that it was a pencil hard wind slab that ran on the old frozen melt freeze crust. Hard to tell how far it ran, but from what I could see it ran down to where the gully rolls over and beyond. The people that triggered it were not caught and returned back to Cardiff Peak via the skin trail.