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Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Silver Fork » Meadows

Upper Meadow Chutes

9,200'

East

Unknown

Skier

Unintentionally Triggered

Wet Loose

Wet Snow

Wet grains

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After our party of two skied the upper meadow chutes to the bottom we peeled off at the lowest break over. At that time it looked like a previous party ski cut or skied over the rollover and it broke, or perhaps it broke during the storm. We scooted to the left and zipped out, heading for drier conditions at the time. I took a quick look at the bed surface and it was wet loose grains, reminiscent of an April storm that came in before a hard freeze. While we were placing skins back on at the flats, we observed another party of two. Before the obvious break over they went on the east/southeast flank and got a crown to pop out. The skier said she was carried into trees with snow piling up, but then was able to free herself. She and her partner then headed down valley with all their gear and unharmed.