Observer Name
EK
Observation Date
Monday, March 2, 2020
Avalanche Date
Monday, March 2, 2020
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Hellgate
Location Name or Route
Hellgate Back Bowl
Elevation
10,000'
Aspect
South
Trigger
Skier
Depth
2"
Width
50'
Comments
Flushed the back bowl around 11am. One person skied the east side of the face sometime earlier without causing any slide. I skied the west. Each of my turns off the top released storm snow that ran on the firm crust and, given the steepness of the slope, gained speed and accumulated to approximately 2+ feet deep when it passed me by just above the choke at around 9500 feet. I cut right and came down through the normal 2 trees exit. The slide came down the cliffs below the 2 trees choke and spread out for a couple hundred feet. Terrain was multiplying the danger posed by the snow instability today.
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