Utah Avalanche Center

Focus on buried sun crust. Hard to find a representative spot due to great variation in crust with slope angle and aspect changes.

Focus was on buried sun crust. Hard to find a representative spot - lots of variation with aspect and slope angle.

Widespread collapsing where the facets at the ground exist. Moving to SE aspects the existence of facets that were collapsing was more varied. Closer to 10k and ESE the facets were easy to find and were collapsing with greater frequency.

From 8k and up we experienced many collapses of varying sizes. The snowpack varied very little on E and SE aspects. The main difference was the existence of facets at the ground.

Noted numerous natural avalanches nearby from during the Thanksgiving storm. Triggered several whumpfs, some pretty large and some in tracked terrain.