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Avalanche: Main Porter

Observer Name
Nick Burr
Observation Date
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Avalanche Date
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Region
Salt Lake » Mill Creek Canyon » Porter Fork » Main Porter
Location Name or Route
Main Porter Fork - InBetween
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Natural
Depth
20"
Width
40'
Comments
About 1/2 - 2/3 of the way down Inbetween, some sluffs from the east facing wall had entrained into a long running loose avalanche in the gut. Not sure how high up in the trees the starting points were (there were multiple). The slide joined the Inbetween run at the choke just under the cliffs mid run and stopped a few hundred feet short of where the run ends. Debris pile was deep, and in some spots quite chunky. Did a beacon search of the debris, no signals. No tracks. Must have been natural, and likely late at night/early this morning due to the lack of new snow. Surprisingly big. I suppose all that graupel had something to do with it.
Towards the bottom the new snow was gouged up to 2 feet.
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