Abajos

The avalanche danger is generally LOW and mostly stable snow conditions exist. Isolated areas of unstable, wind drifted snow may exist in upper elevation wind exposed terrain that faces NW-N-E. And though unlikely, it may also be possible to trigger an avalanche on a buried persistent weak layer on steep, northerly facing terrain.

There was a close call in the Logan area mountains on Saturday where two riders were caught in an avalanche. Once was partially buried. Both ended up ok. DETAILS HERE.

The partially buried rider's had is sticking up in the photo below.

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It's been pretty quiet in the mountains over the past couple of days with the most excitement coming from some 20-30 mph SW winds yesterday morning. Today we'll see partly sunny skies with some residual clouds coming off a weak storm system to the north. Westerly winds will blow 10-15 mph, and high temps will be in the upper 20's. A longer duration storm event will affect the region Fri-Thu. It's not taking a favorable track for us but the jury is still out on what we might see from this.

Snow depths range from 30" at Camp Jackson and Buckboard Flat (9000') to more than 4' of snow at North creek Pass (10,500'). Some sun and wind-exposed slopes have considerably less and there is still some grass poking out, but all said we're off to a good start down here.

NWS Weather Forecast.

Snow totals at Buckboard Flat (8924')

Snow totals at Camp Jackson (8858')

Wind, temperature, and humidity on Abajo Peak (11,000')

This forecast is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.