Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 91 m
- Weak Layer
- Ground Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 122 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northwest
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Here is a picture of a natural slide I saw today in the Oquirrh Mountains this morning. I don't know when It slid but judging by the wind pillows, I'd guess sometime after those east winds that blew Sunday/Monday, which might have overloaded facets in the thin snowpack.
Forecaster comments: I suspect that this avalanche probably occurred during the heating. It has a similar aspect to a number of other wet slab avalanches that released during that period.