Avalanche

Avalanche: Little Cottonwood Canyon

Jimmy GSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Trigger Type
Natural
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
2438 m

Unsurprisingly we witnessed multiple wet slides in the north-facing chutes while climbing on the north side of LCC, the biggest of which was an avalanche in a chute south of White Pearl. It ran at 4 PM. Hard to tell how destructive it actually was, but it sounded like a freight train moving through the canyon and it entrained all of the snow in the chute from wall-to-wall. It lasted upwards of a minute.