Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Weak Layer
- Depth Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Loose
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
Avalanche Conditions:
Bruce’s cat may still be asleep but his tail is twitching a little. There were a few damp sluffs yesterday, both human triggered and natural. A person triggered a sluff on Scott’s Peak on the Park City ridgeline and two more sluffs were triggered in the Wilson Chutes in Mill Creek. These last two gouged down to the ground and involved plenty of snow. A few wet sluffs also ran naturally on northerly facing slopes below 7,000 feet, one of which put a few inches of snow on the Ogden Canyon road. There were also a couple of soft wind drifts along the high ridges that were breaking about 4 to 8 inches deep.
The mountains may get another dusting of new snow but temperatures will be warm again today, with a rain/snow line at about 7,000 feet. Although large avalanches are unlikely today, be alert for shallow drifts along the high ridges and wet loose sluffs especially on northerly facing steep slopes at lower elevations. If we get lucky and this next disturbance puts down more new snow than expected, the danger will be proportionally higher.