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Avalanche: Snake Creek

Observer Name
Porter
Observation Date
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Avalanche Date
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Region
Provo » Snake Creek
Location Name or Route
Snake Creek
Elevation
8,600'
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Natural
Depth
16"
Width
80'
Comments
Many avalanches observed today 1/11 on East to NE facing slopes alongside the Snake Creek snowmobile road, these were remotely triggered by the snowcat grooming the road as reported in the grooming report on the SnowUT website. They released above and below the road, averaged ~16" deep, failing on a 1 cm breakable thermal crust from before the January storms. The lower half of the new snow above the crust was 4F hardness and the upper new snow was fist hardness. Snow below the crust was all F to 4F facets as expected.
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