Observer Name
Luke
Observation Date
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Avalanche Date
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » White Pine
Location Name or Route
White Pine- Red Baldy
Elevation
10,300'
Aspect
Northwest
Slope Angle
36°
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Depth
Unknown
Width
35'
Vertical
40'
Comments
Went up White Pine this morning, spotted these two slides. They look to be from the last few days, and judging from the aspect they were probably caused by a combination of storm snow and wind activity. I'm not certain of that because I didn't see them go but I also didn't see any tracks there and those spots aren't seeing a bunch of sun.
Comments
Aside from those slides I found variable conditions from unbreakable crusts on lower elevation southern aspects to pretty decent if dense recrystallized stuff in the trees. I dug one pit facing North-Northwest at around 10000' that had a bunch of cruddy layers and almost no propagation, meaning only my shovel shear test failed after a little pulling. There was about a finger sized crust layer it failed at around 100 cm deep.