Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I was expecting to find very thin snow cover and some old avalanche activity, but things have been fairly quiet in the Mill Creek drainage. The snow pack structure is still a concern with weak sugary snow in the mid pack and around the crusts, but a few of the places I dug did not have much of a slab.</p>
Some of the areas I dug around today were quite shallow and lacking a slab on top of the weak sugary snow, but this should change with the approaching storm.
Things have been relatively quiet in the Mill Creek area, likely due to thin snow cover. I was feeling many logs and stumps while riding through the area, but with a good storm riders might start venturing out here.
The High Uintas are looking a little thin and rocky right now.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The persistent slab problem should be on the rise with increasing winds and possibly some good snow totals. </p> <p>Winds were generally light along the ridge lines and not increasing the hazard this afternoon.</p>
Despite the unseasonably warm weather, the snow conditions are holding up quite well. I found nice settled dense powder in the Mill Creek area, although the snow cover is rather thin.