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Avalanche: Red Pine Gulch

Observer Name
Aaron Rice
Observation Date
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Avalanche Date
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Red Pine Gulch
Location Name or Route
No name baldy ridge
Elevation
10,600'
Aspect
North
Slope Angle
40°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Intentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
Density Change
Depth
14"
Width
30'
Vertical
150'
Comments
Touring from white pine TH to Box Elder. On the way up to the ridge above lake shot in the way there in the morning we saw multiple wind slabs, so we avoided them on the up by boot packing up a small rock band. When we got to the top we stomped on the wind slab and it was very sensitive and propagated 30ft. There was a second larger wind slab that another group trigger sometime later in the day that we observed on the way home in the afternoon. I was surprised how sensitive these windslabs were. There was a well preserved layer of stellar dendrites as a weak layer.
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