Salt River and Wyoming Ranges

A shallow, early season snowpack exists, and conditions are mostly stable. However, backcountry travelers venturing into very steep terrain features at the highest elevations might be able to trigger an isolated pocket of surface slab with depths up to 10 inches. Below 8,500 feet, conditions consist of bare ground or shallow snow with depths of six inches or less.

( Discussion is generated from the previous day's afternoon forecast. )The chance for new snow will increase overnight and into Thursday before tapering off by Thursday evening. Mountain locations could receive two to five inches of new snow by the end of the day on Thursday. Overnight lows in the mountains will be in the low to mid-teens before rising to near 20 during the day. Southwesterly ridgetop winds at 20 to 30 miles per hour will decrease to 10 to 15 miles per hour overnight.The general avalanche hazard is expected to be LOW on Thursday. In very steep, wind loaded terrain at the higher elevations, backcountry travelers might be able to trigger an isolated pocket of surface slab up to a foot deep. With early season conditions, even these small slides have the potential to injure skiers and riders if they are swept into shallowly buried rock outcroppings or scree fields.