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Avalanche: Superior

Chris WilcoxSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
53 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Snowboarder
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Southeast
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

I'm a firefighter in Little Cottonwood Canyon. We were notified at 8:00 this morning that a skier had triggered a small slide on superior. As we responded to the highway below, we witnessed several slides in multiple drainages. A couple of them were pretty big. This video is a snowboarder coming down between Little Superior and Two Trees. Everyone we saw made it down without getting carried. Some very close calls!