Salt Lake
Pericolo valanghe
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
In sintesi
The avalanche danger remains LOW. With skyrocketing temperatures today, you may trigger shallow wet loose sluffs in steep sunny terrain. On the colder side of the compass, you may trigger longer running loose dry sugar-sluffs that are increasingly packing a punch. Remember that risk is inherent in mountain travel.
Note that the grey on low elevation solar aspects indicates that there is little to no snow in this terrain.
Special Announcement
Recent Activity
A skier in steep solar terrain in Mary Ellen (American Fork) triggered a shallow wet loose sluff yesterday. While it was not a large avalanche, it would have been enough to knock you over and cause trouble in unforgiving terrain.
Despite the lack of interesting weather, we continue to receive thoughtful and interesting observations.
Snow and Weather
Skies are clear.
Winds are light from the northeast. Mountain temperatures hover at or just above freezing.
For today, we'll have mostly sunny skies, light winds from the northeast, and soaring/scalding temperatures to 40°F up high and the low to mid-50s down low.
The ridge of high pressure starts to shift to the east late weekend, signalling a much-desired pattern change. A cold front is slated to sweep through late Monday, but that's as far out on the weather limb that I'll go.
Skiing and riding conditions remain fair with soft recrystallized snow in the wind and sun-sheltered terrain and something akin to corn on the solar aspects. While coverage sits at 50-70" of snow up high, low elevation trailheads and solar aspects are grim. The silver lining of the holiday crusts is that at least we're not stepping off our skis or ride and plunging to the ground in unsupportable facets. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
Sean Zimmerman-Wall finding a backcountry that looks like a ski area, upper BCC
General Announcements
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.