Observer Name
Ted Scroggin/Grant Helgeson
Observation Date
Friday, March 18, 2011
Avalanche Date
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Region
Uintas
Location Name or Route
Super Bowl/Moffit Basin
Elevation
10,500'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
37°
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
20"
Width
300'
Vertical
600'
Comments
Grant and I observed this natural avalanche while out for a field day in the Whitney Basin. This was the largest of several new snow slides we saw on this northeast aspect, that would have been heavily wind loaded from southwest winds on Wednesday. It appeared to only involve the storm snow and did not break into older deeper layers.
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