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Observation: Snowbasin Backcountry

Hardesty, Meakins, Snowbasin Ski PatrolOgden
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Quick report

Red Flags Comment
<p>None Not even dry or wet loose sluffs noted.</p>

LOW danger and normal caution.

Photos

  1. Cornices remain a significant hazard.
  2. Tremendous riming adorns many of the upper elevation windward pines.
  3. Large, gouging avalanche from the early Jan cycle well down into the drainage on the west side of the Ogden Skyline.
  4. Old hard wind drifts starting to break down.

Snowpack

Variable conditions.  All things considered, new snow *may* bond ok with rough, warm, corrugated crusts.

Widespread surface hoar noted off the ridgelines but laying down and assimilated into the substrate.  Otherwise, weakening of the snow surfaces have started to break down some of the wind damage from the past week and soft settled snow may be found in protected northerly terrain. That said, surface facets are warm and not all that weak.