Utah Avalanche Center

It was difficult to find both a slab and weak layer. This was a wind loaded spot and had some weak snow at the ground. Other places lacked a slab but had weaker snow near the ground. I suspect you could still trigger an avalanche in a few places. Certainly you could other places at slightly higher elevation that had more early season snow, colder temperatures and more wind with the most recent storm.

Aspects range from roughly 320 deg to 40 deg. This avalanche broke over 2000 feet wide. It failed on a layer of small facets at 55 cm.

Avalanche likely triggered by cornice fall, but snowbike and sled tracks in the area and some tracks taken out by the slide.

Crown of skier triggered slide on 3/8/2017. Obvious hard wind slab from downslope winds resting in softer snow. Bed surface was at 315cm. What was remarkable was the width of this slide. It was 250-300 feet wide and ran maybe 350 feet slope distance. The weak layer was primarily decomposing stellars, but they may have gotten just a touch faceted. I couldn't tell. Even on such a relatively hot day today, as the sun disappeared behind Mt. Superior, the temps started dropping quickly.