Observer Name
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Observation Date
Friday, November 23, 2018
Avalanche Date
Friday, November 23, 2018
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline » Monitors
Location Name or Route
South Monitor
Elevation
9,600'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
35°
Trigger
Natural
Trigger: additional info
Sympathetic Release
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
20"
Width
30'
Vertical
60'
Comments
I think this slide was a natural from windloading, we saw it pull out from a quarter mile away but the snow is so sensitive right now it possible that it was a sympathetic release from the other slide we remotely triggered not sure. This slide broke on facets above the October crust which was still fairly stout in the bed surface. This slide also produced shooting cracks across the parts of the slope that did not slide. The last photo is a large shooting crack we created by collapsing the ridgeline on the other side of the bowl
