Utah Avalanche Center

Overall, the layer of facets at the ground was (in most places) a fairly thin layer. It was also hard to give a hardness because it was a messy mix of facets and ice crusts. The Fx's were F hardness. The crusts were 1 finger hardness. The ECT fractured on a very rough plane. Other pits in the area had similar snow depths (about 1m) and a similar weak layer at the ground. It wasn't too concerning.

Looked at a large natural event including at least 3 large bowls with 2-3' x 500-800' crown lines. Extensive avalanches from 12-15-19 ran about 2000 vrt'

Large natural HS avalanche occurred on 12-14-19