Lawine

Avalanche: Uintas

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Quick report

Slope Angle
37°

Avalanche

Slab Width
30 m
Weak Layer
Surface Hoar
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
46 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Start Zone Elevation
3200 m

I lumped together 4 separate slides in the Super Bowl that are all on northeast aspects, above 10,000', failed on surface hoar, appeared to be snowmobile triggered and are at least 1-2 days old.

The buried surface hoar was easily observed on the flank of this slide in Super Bowl.