Logan

The snow is stable, the avalanche danger LOW, and avalanches are unlikely in the backcountry.

• Use normal caution.

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Due to the benign January weather it's been a couple weeks since any significant avalanche activity occurred in the Logan Zone.

Check HERE for all the latest observations and avalanche activity.

The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 22°F, and there is just under 6 feet (70 inches) of total snow at the site containing 127% of normal SWE for the date. Winds out of the north-northwest are blowing around 10 mph this morning at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station. Expect sunny skies and fair weather in the mountains today, continuing through the upcoming week. High temperatures around 29°F are expected at 8500' today, dropping with clearing skies tonight to around 12°F. Moderate northeast winds are expected today and tonight.

A few inches of new snow didn't change avalanche conditions much, but it capped and preserved weak surface snow created in many areas by high pressure conditions in the last couple weeks. Thursday night, winds drifted the few inches of fresh snow around at upper elevations, but a thin rime-crust formed on the snow surfaceand this appears to be gluing the shallow drifts in place.

Observers report a widespread thin rime-crust on the new snow surface in the Central and Northern Bear River Range.

Here is what I found in lower East Banks in Logan Canyon on Thursday.

• Always follow safe backcountry travel protocols. Go one person at a time in avalanche terrain, (anytime while traveling on or under backcountry slopes steeper than 30°) while the rest of your party watches from a safe area.
• Check your avalanche rescue equipment, change your batteries, and practice often with your backcountry partners. Check slope angles, and to avoid avalanches stay off of and out from under slopes steeper than 30° and adjacent slopes. Video Here

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• Check out all the upcoming education classes and clinics HERE.
• Please submit your observations from the backcountry HERE.

This information does not apply to developed ski areas or highways where avalanche control is normally done. This forecast is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.