Logan

The snow is stable, the avalanche danger LOW, and avalanches are unlikely in the backcountry. Watch for and avoid fresh drifts at upper elevations.

• Use normal caution. I will update this forecast by Friday morning at 7:30

• 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

Thanks to the generous support of our local resorts and Ski Utah, discount lift tickets are now available. Support the UAC while you ski at the resorts this season. Tickets are available HERE

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.

Most of the Logan Zone picked up a couple inches of light snow Monday night, with around 4 inches of powder accumulating at upper elevations in the Bear River Range. The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 13°F, and there is 72 inchesof total snow containing 122% of normal SWE for the date. Winds out of the northwest are blowing around 20 mph this morning at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, but wicked winds were blowing pretty hard from the east yesterday, stripping the fresh snow from upper elevation slopes.

Expect party sunny skies and fair weather in the mountains today, with 8500' high temperatures around 19°F, and moderate westerly winds driving wind chill values as low as -6°F. Tonight will be mostly clear in the mountains, with temperatures dropping to around 5°F. The static high pressure weather pattern will persist through the weekend, but there is finally some hope for a change in the weather beginning early next week, with good potential for more active weather and colder and wetter conditions.

A few inches of fresh snow really helped conditions in the backcountry. Call it dust-on-crust or shallow powder, but you'll find freshened and softened surface conditions on a solid supportable base and generally stable snow across the Logan Zone these days. I've been finding the best riding conditions on lower angled slopes in sheltered terrain.

It's great to be able get into the backcountry and up and out from under the clouds in the valley. A few inches of fresh powder has certainly improved snow conditions and attitudes.

Monday I found widespread areas in sheltered terrain where the snow surface was adorned by these lovely and fragile surface hoar feathers or frost crystals. In some places, yesterday's couple inches of nice powder could have preserved a future persistent weak layer.

Who's up for some free avalanche training? Get a refresher, become better prepared for an upcoming avalanche class, or just boost your skills. Go to https://learn.kbyg.org/ and scroll down to Step 2 for a series of interactive online avalanche courses produced by the UAC.

• 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.