Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches
Overall, we were pleased with the snowpack in Porter Fork. We found no thin, shallow snowpack areas (although they likely exist on slopes that have avalanched, such as The Icebox),with over 2 meters of snow above 8,000'
Pit results were inconsistent:
9,250 SW aspect ECTP23 down 50 cms on a recent storm snow interface, (could not reproduce the full propagation).
9,300' NW aspect ECTP25 down 135 cms on the late-January facets (could not reproduce the full propagation).
9,300' NW aspect PST 50/135 End down 115 cm on Feb 7 graupel layer.
Other quick pits were showing a "right-side up" snowpack with no weaknesses in the top ~50 cms of the snowpack.
We came away with a sense the snowpack was stronger in Main Porter Fork than in many other areas of the central Wasatch, but that you still need to continually assess the snowpack if you choose to enter avalanche terrain.
Moab forecaster Dave Garcia has an excellent video summary of what we saw.
Snowpack
Snowpack Depths (HS)
7,300' 145 cms (~5 feet)
8,100' 220 cms (~7 feet)
9,300' 270 cms (~9 feet)