White Pine 1-1-2012 720.mov

Utah Avalanche Center Fieldwork in White Pine, Wasatch Range, Utah. A huge wind storm a couple days ago created wind slabs on top of the extremely weak, faceted snow.

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Education

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• avalanche
• utah avalanche center
• fiieldwork
• bruce tremper
• wind slabs
• faceted snow

[Cr0cket20]

Thanks for continuing to put these out.

[DMN96]

@tmysty

Short answer is yes. But it's just not the rain crust that will create future dangerous conditions. We have a ton of other factors (facets etc) that will contribute to the avalanche danger... if it ever snows again... Watch the UAC closely, take an avy class, and I would recommend reading a book called "Snow Sense" before traveling in the side and back country.

[tmysty]

so now that there is a "rain slab" and a huge deposit of snow were to fall on top of that would that be considered a dangerous avalanche condition? Im from Illinois so Ive never studied those conditions.

[MrByronodmon]

yeah this is pretty cool I didn't know that you guys had a youtube channel!