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Avalanche: Red Baldy

Observer Name
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Observation Date
Monday, March 10, 2025
Avalanche Date
Monday, March 10, 2025
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » White Pine » Red Baldy
Location Name or Route
Red Baldy, White Pine
Elevation
10,000'
Aspect
North
Slope Angle
40°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Remotely Triggered
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
3'
Width
100'
Vertical
100'
Comments
I triggered this windslab avalanche on the steep moraine roll over at the bottom of Red Baldy. On the walk up we noted 3 wind slab avalanches that had recently run naturally on the steep N facing roll overs on the approach and the wind was cranking from the S-SW moving a ton of snow on to leeward slopes and cross loading others. Figured I'd trigger a slide on this slope but didn't think It would be remotely triggered from well over 60ft away, thought I was going to have to tease the cat a little more. All these windslabs were running on near surface facets probably formed during the last few clear cold nights. The crown was over 4 ft deep at the deepest and probably averaged around 2ft, and the debris was hard slab. It was obvious that Red Baldy and the Tri Chutes were getting cross loaded and the Birthday Chutes were just getting straight up wind loaded, the amount of snow moving around up high was impressive. I did a quick pit on the side of one of these windslabs and it failed on isolation on NSF. Photos are the slide I triggered, a few others we passed on the way up, a video of the slide, wind and the hasty pit
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