Utah Avalanche Center

Because of an avalanche just above this pit and others in the area - I think the ECT results are skewed as the slope is likely to have already been collapsed many times. In our travels, we had 3-6 collapses noted throughout the tour.

Very shallow snowpack - mostly around 50 cm. Very fragile and unstable with lots of collapses felt every 30 feet or so on buried depth hoar in the lower half of the snowpack. Snowpits test consistently propagated upon isolation or with very little provocation.

Location is down in bowl in a relatively thicker snowpack that had some previous wind deposits. You sink to the ground in depth hoar on foot. Most of the snowpack is 40-50 cm deep but this was deeper, which was probably why it was not propagating on ECT. Experienced localized collapses on shallower snowpack areas.

Dug in an area that collapsed and cracked. Nearby where the slope steepened was a small avalanche that was remotely triggered from about 200 ft away.

Remote triggered 4' deep wind slab, which only ran about 50', from ~100' in drifted generally low angle terrain