Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>From Maple Bench, I observed several recent wet avalanches, cornice falls, and glide cracks. I did not even try to go up into Old Logway because the wet snow was way too soft by the time I got to the rapidly melting debris pile at the bottom of the avalanche path.</p>
While Cache Valley is starting to green up, there is still plenty of snow in the Wellsville Range above Mendon.
Glide cracks have opened up on a steep, east-facing slope at lower elevations between Old Logway and North Hell Canyons. There is a large cornice on the ridge high above. It's a good idea not to be under either of these, especially during the day's heat.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>A large cornice overhangs Old Logway extending across the two prominent bowls and the bowl in North Hell Canyon as well. I could see some sizable recent cornice fall activity nearby in one of the Gibson Canyon bowls. </p> <p>I could see debris piles from a few recent wet avalanches in Bird and Gibson Canyons, and glide cracks have formed on a steep slope low on the sub-ridge between Old Logaway and North Hell Canyons.</p>
The saturated snow became too soft by the time I made it to the bottom of Old Logway at around 10:30. At that point I was sinking into the snow shin-deep even with skis on.