Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No red flags to note. </p>
Low visibility and snow on everything.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>If someone managed to find enough snow in the Ogden zone to ski/ride, I'd be looking out for sluffing in the new snow, as I noted some under foot as I was descending through 35-40 degree terrain. I'd also be looking out for pockets of wind affected snow as I imagine winds were more significant up at the ridgeline than they were above the east bench of town.</p>
There was 1 to 2 inches of snow present at the trailhead, just enough to see the rabbit tracks on the approach trail and leave my own footprints in the dark. Snowfall was consistent, with visibility as little as 50 to 100 feet at times as I climbed up into the clouds. This resulted in about 2-3 inches of additional snow throughout my three hour outing, mostly filling in the bootprints I'd made and obscuring the passage of any rabbits. Precip was largely rimed forms, most lightly coated stellars, reasonably dense and a bit damp, and quite sticky. It stuck to...everything. My boot soles. My crampon plates. My gloves. My jacket sleeves. The rock. Around 6,000ft there was a noticeable change in snow to light, lower density powder that corresponded with a lower temperature.