Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Still a few lingering wind slabs that are not overly sensitive to the weight of a person, but they will still break at your sled and skis about 8 to 10 inches deep. </p>
1. With nice weather and good riding conditions, the trailhead has been staying pretty busy. 2. Fairly nice conditions high up on Mofit Peak, light to moderate south winds and little snow transport. 3. A classic Uinta ridge line that is broad and open where winds can grab lots of snow and deposit onto the leeward side.
1. The weak surface snow is sluffing easily in steep terrain. 2. Riders are getting into bigger terrain with no avalanche activity. 3. We as riders need to make sure we are practicing good safe travel techniques and only put one rider at a time on the slope.
A few isolated wind slabs along the ridgelines about 10" deep, but not very connected.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>A few isolated wind slabs can still be found, these are sitting on the buried weak surface snow from the clear days and nights. I was only finding these to be about 10 " deep, just along the higher ridge lines and not overly sensitive.</p> <p>With so much terrain out there, a person could possibly stumble onto a slope that has shallow weak snow and trigger a deeper avalanche. </p>
Much of the higher terrain has been pretty worked over from the recent winds. Dense settled powder and loose faceted surface snow is still providing quite good riding and turning out of the wind zone.