Avalanche

Avalanche: Salt Lake

ChesterSalt Lake
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Slope Angle
40°

Avalanche

Slab Width
91 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Vertical Fall
53 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
3109 m

I don't know when this slid. It was not during the snowfall from this weekend but was before yesterday's 1". There was a ski track that took a entry down then disappeared after the crown, had no out that I saw, I did a quick become search. This makes me think It could have been human triggered, or more likely somebody hit it sun or mon, and it went later on its own. Full bowl went, thinner crown on East end. Ran to an uphill speed bump with trees. bout 1/3 full track(which would be the lake). Don't know if it was a persistent layer or just a standard wind slab, weak layer was 1-2" thick, realativly light fluffy snow. Bed seemed like a wind crust. Not sure if weak layer was persistent facets. I looked for grapple, none observed. While I was digging I looked for depth hoar, just a peppering around rocks. I did a quick extended column test around crown, no results but was able to pry a block off.

There is also a 70' long crown 2' deep crown on tuskarota skiiers right of seagulls or 3 chute-thinking wind slab. East facing, GuessingSimilar timing didn't run far