Avalanche

Avalanche: Broads Fork

Aaron LowrySalt Lake
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Avalanche

Trigger Type
Natural
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
76 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
3231 m

Upper Broads Fork partly cloudy, moderate E wind up on the ridges unknown, only viewed from a distance, after the fact.

no cracking or collapsing from the same aspects, but we never got high enough to get to the same elevation as the observed slide.

East/northeast upper elevations had extensive, obvious wind pillows as viewed from a distance from the Mill B ridgeline.

Due to the obvious wind pillows observed on like aspect/elevation (N, NE at 9500 ft.+) in upper Broads, we did not venture into that territory.