Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 457 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 762 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 122 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Repeater
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2591 m
We went up to Maple Bench and into the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness on 1-25-10 to have a look at the Large Natural Avalanche from overn
The avalanche ran full-path, just short of cut line from a similar natural release in 2004, and it cleaned out a few more big tooth maple and mountain ash trees.
Huge debris pile, including a good deal of splintered hard wood, rough estimated at 30+ acres...
Despite snow and wind after the avalanche, a large crown was visible a couple days later across the top of a few of the broad bowls that make up Gibson Canyon drainage and share the avalanche path or gully...