Observer Name
Hugh Jazz
Observation Date
Friday, February 17, 2017
Avalanche Date
Friday, February 17, 2017
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Y-Not Couloir
Location Name or Route
Y Not
Elevation
8,500'
Aspect
North
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Wet Loose
Avalanche Problem
Wet Snow
Comments
My partner and I got pinned down in the ynot by wet sluffing today. They are started about Noon. A couple of these were big, more than you could describe as manageable. They would have buried a person. The avalanches were frequent repeating as often as every 5 minutes or faster at times. They seemed to have run their course by about 2:00 PM.
Comments
The snow that we were generally traveling on, as in booting in the chute, was generally hard. As such, we weren't really heads up about the chute starting to let loose. I think the snow that was actually moving was on the steep rocky walls on the sides of the upper part of the chute. Of course, we weren't up there so it's hard to know what was moving.
Comments
I'm avoiding the whole play by play thing here, but I'm happy to share if people want. Send me an email if you're interested. This was a very serious situation and it's not lost us that we made a pretty incredible miscalculation. We're very lucky that no one was seriously hurt or worse.
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