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  • We purposely triggered this avalanche by jumping on the flat part of the ridge above the tree.  We are now looking at the fracture line to learn more about the culprit weak layer.
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  • A glide avalanche in Broad's Fork, Wasatch Range, Utah.  A glide avalanche is a type of wet avalanche in which the entire snowpack slides slowly on the ground, similar to a glacier, until the entire slab fails catastrophically.
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  • A bold skier descends next to an avalanche that occurred in the West Bowl of Silver Fork, Big Cottonwood Canyon.  The avalanche probably occurred on 12-9-04, the day before the photo was taken.
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  • A large, natural, avalanche descends off of Mt. Timpanogos, Utah.  Houses in the foreground were not hit.
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  • A large, natural, avalanche descends off of Mt. Timpanogos, Utah.  Houses in the foreground were not hit.
    Avalanche_-_Elk_Point-Edit-2.jpg
  • A massive avalanche triggered by a snowboarder on the left side of the avalanche looking down. The avalanche, unfortunately, killed the snowboarder. For scale, you can see avalanche workers examining the fracture line on the right side of the photo.  The fracture was 6-8 feet deep.
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  • A massive avalanche triggered by a snowboarder. The avalanche, unfortunately, killed the snowboarder. For scale, you can see avalanche workers examining the fracture line on the right side of the photo.  The fracture was 6-8 feet deep.
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  • A huge, natural, wet-slab avalanche released late in the afternoon of March 13, 2007 on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob in the upper left of the photo.  The wet debris gouged out a 40 foot deep trough and filled it with dense, wet, avalanche debris.  The debris flows well out out of the frame to the right.
    Gobblers_debris_pano_3-14-07.jpg
  • Avalanche rescue worker, Dean Cardinale and his avalanche search dog, Midas, search for mising victims, Wasatch Range, Utah
    Dean_and_Midas.jpg
  • A large, natural, avalanche on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob, Mill Creek Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah.  This avalanche likely released late in the day due to sustained very warm temperatures.
    Gobblers_3-14-07_-108.jpg
  • A large, natural, avalanche on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob, Mill Creek Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah.  This avalanche likely released late in the day due to sustained very warm temperatures.
    Gobblers_3-14-07_-95.jpg
  • A large, natural, avalanche on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob, Mill Creek Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah.  This avalanche likely released late in the day due to sustained very warm temperatures.
    Gobblers_3-14-07_-66.jpg
  • A large, natural, avalanche on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob, Mill Creek Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah.  This avalanche likely released late in the day due to sustained very warm temperatures.
    Gobblers_3-14-07_-110.jpg
  • Jason West walks along the fracture line of an avalanche incident in Silver Fork, 11-14-06 in which one person was completely buried in an avalanche they triggered and Jason dug out by his partners in time to save his life.  Here he returned to the scene the following day to investigate the accident.
    11-15-06_silver_fk_incident_27.jpg
  • Avalanche rescue workers search for mising victims, Wasatch Range, Utah
    Mineral_12-12-04_probers__dogs_and_d...jpg
  • An avalanche purposely triggered by ski patrollers using explosives at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah.  The fracture was about two hundred yards wide and 2-3 feet deep. This was a wet slab avalanche and the instability was caused by rapid and prolonged warming in spring.
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  • A large, natural, avalanche on the northwest face of Gobbler's Knob, Mill Creek Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah.  This avalanche likely released late in the day due to sustained very warm temperatures. Self-portrait.
    Gobblers_3-14-07_-83.jpg
  • Avalanche forecaster Brad Meiklejohn with the Utah Avalanche Center cuts a thin section of snow to show the layers in the snow.  In this case, new snow sits on top of very weak depth hoar.
    Snowpit_-_Brad_copy.jpg
  • Fractured blocks near the crown face of an avalanche incident on Little Water Peak, Wasatch Range, Utah.  A backcountry skier triggered this avalanche from the bottom of a very gentle slope and one party member was buried 6 feet deep when the debris pushed him up against a tree. A quick and skillful rescue by the other party members saved his life.
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  • I was able to intentionally and easily trigger this huge avalanche in East Monitor along the Park City ridgeline, Utah.  I was standing above where my wife is now  and sanding on a 15 degree slope and hanging onto a tree.  I jumped on the slope, which collapsed the very fragile layer of depth hoar and propagatated the fracture onto the steeper slope below me.  My wife Susi came down to the tree after the avalanche occurred, where she watched me as I examined the fracture line of the avalanche.  It is usually quite safe to examine fracture lines because all the energy has been released.
    east_monitor_2-11-07_07.jpg
  • A backcountry skier travels past the top of an avalanche, which his party member easily triggered from the flat top of the ridge.  Cuttler Ridge near Ben Lomond Peak in the Ogden area mountains, Utah.
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  • Bruce Tremper, Director of the Utah Avalanche Center investigates a large avalanche on the Argenta slide path in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
    Bruce_microscope_Argenta.jpg
  • Bruce Tremper, Director of the Utah Avalanche Center investigates a large avalanche on the Argenta slide path in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
    Bruce_notes_in_Argenta.jpg
  • Avalanche rescue workers search for mising victims, Wasatch Range, Utah
    Mineral_12-12-04_probers.jpg
  • We intentionally triggered this avalanche by jumping on the flat part of the ridge above the trees and the propagating collapse triggered the avalanche on the steeper slope below.  Here, we are examining the culprit weak layer. Monitor Bowl area, Wasatch Range, Utah
    east_monitor_2-11-07_27.jpg
  • Avalanche rescue workers search for mising victims, Wasatch Range, Utah
    mineral_12-12-04_-_probe_and_dogs.jpg
  • We intentionally triggered this avalanche by jumping on the flat part of the ridge above the trees and the propagating collapse triggered the avalanche on the steeper slope below.  Here, we are examining the culprit weak layer. Monitor Bowl area, Wasatch Range, Utah
    east_monitor_2-11-07_31.jpg
  • We met the party who triggered the slide coming out of the bowl and talked to them.  The four tracks on the right are straight south facing, but the lone skier on the left took a slightly southeasterly aspect, which was underlain with weak depth hoar.  He remotely triggered the avalanche on one of the last turns we can see.  His friends yelled and he scooted off to his left (the traverssing track we see). Toledo Bowl, a backcountry area near Alta, Utah.
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  • A natural avalanche in the south end of Meadow Chutes in Silver Fork of Big Cottonwood Canyon.  The avalanche probably occurred on 12-9-04.
    Meadow_Chutes_12-9-04.jpg
  • The crew from the Millford Road avalanche program in New Zealand, work on an automated wether station before the start of winter.
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  • The crew from the Millford Road avalanche program in New Zealand, work on an automated wether station before the start of winter.
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  • The crew from the Millford Road avalanche program in New Zealand, work on an automated wether station before the start of winter.
    New_Zealand-1267.jpg
  • The Kea, a wild parrot that lives around tree line in the mountains of New Zealand, Avalanche Peak area, Arthur Pass, New Zealand
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  • Avalanche Peak area, Arthur Pass, New Zealand
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  • Flying in with the team from the Milford Road avalanche crew, Millford Sound, New Zealand
    New_Zealand-1211.jpg
  • A backcountry skier carefully approaches a large cornice in the mountains near Logan, Utah.  Cornices can be extremely dangerous and backcountry travelers should never approach the edge of a dropoff in the mountains.
    Cornice_approach_-_Logan_Horizontal.jpg
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  • Alaska avalanche forecaster, Bill Glude, Alta, Utah doing avalanche work in a howling blizard.  The Avalung device on his chest allows him to breathe while under avalanche debris in case something goes wrong.
    Bill_Glude17.jpg
  • Alaska avalanche forecaster, Bill Glude, Alta, Utah doing avalanche work in a howling blizard.  The Avalung device on his chest allows him to breathe while under avalanche debris in case something goes wrong.
    Bill_Glude03.jpg
  • Logan, Utah avalanche forecaster, Toby Weed, ascends the path of a recent avalanche to examine the fracture line.  Wellsville Mountains, Utah.
    Wellsville_pano_from_top_with_Toby.jpg
  • Climbing guide, Kitty Calhoun demonstrates techniques for determining the steepness of an avalanche slope.
    Kitty_Calhoon_steepness_measure08.jpg
  • Utah Avalanche Center forecaster, Brett Kobernik, snowboarding in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
    Brett_Kobernik_pano_in_Willows.jpg
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