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Avalanche: East Faces-Wellsville Range

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Avalanche

Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
762 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Trigger Detail
Repeater
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
New Snow

Large natural avalanches ran on the east side of the Wellsville Range above Mendon. I went up to Maple Bench and the bottom of Old Logway canyon to check em out. There was evidence of two avalanches running over 2500' down to Maple Bench, with debris from a smaller slide covered by less than an inch of fresh snow on top of debris from a larger one with 3 or 4 inches of snow on it. The first slide (likely from sometime in the evening of 2/7) ran close to the full length of the path and took out a number of big tooth maple and box elder trees in the runout fan....