Avalanche

Avalanche: Grizzly Gulch

Aaron RiceSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
33°

Avalanche

Slab Width
27 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
15 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
20 cm
Trigger Detail
Remotely Triggered
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2865 m

Skinning up the Michigan city road early this morning. Winds were howling out of the west. As we crossed a small but steep slope above the gulch I was keeping the skin track just above the convexity and a crack shot out 50' from my skis and the whole slope fractured and slide to the bottom of the gully. Not a huge avalanche, but most of the slope that could have gone did. I would not want to venture out on to any bigger slopes today. With very strong winds, a persistent weak layer on certain slopes and aspects and high intensity snowfall rates of mostly grauple increased avalanche danger is a certain today.