Observer Name
UAC Staff
Observation Date
Friday, January 3, 2025
Avalanche Date
Friday, January 3, 2025
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Days Fork » Two Dogs
Location Name or Route
Days Fork - Two Dogs
Elevation
10,400'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
Unknown
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
3.5'
Width
80'
Vertical
600'
Comments
Large hard slab in Two Dogs in Days Fork. This avalanche was reported to the UAC (photo courtesy of Danny Woodbury) and most likely it ran early in the morning on Friday, January 3. Trigger unknown. A skin track had already traversed the ridge above these two slides so the trigger may have been cornice fall, remotely triggered, or just simply realeased naturally from the strong southwest winds.
There is an adjacent slide in Upper Days, and it is possible one of these avalanches sympathetically triggered the other.
Dimensions are estimates.
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