Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Areas that have a thinner snowpack are still holding poor structure with quite weak basal facets. With some areas holding a decent overall snowdepth of around 4 feet, this makes the avalanche danger vary greatly from location to location. THIN AREAS HAVE MORE DANGER especially on the east facing slopes which have been recently wind loaded.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I was hopeful that I would not find any avalanches that broke into old snow this weekend but unfortunately that's not the case. I looked at a lot of natural avalanches that occurred during the storm with only some minor areas breaking into old snow. This made me hopeful that we would not see any issues with a persistent weak layer.</p> <p>However, today I found a number of snowmobiler triggered avalanches that were triggered on Saturday which broke into old weak snow:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/avalanche-seeley-creek">Avalanche 1</a></li> <li> <a href="https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/avalanche-seeley-creek-0">Avalanche 2</a></li> <li> <a href="https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/avalanche-seeley-creek-0">Avalanche 3</a></li> </ul> <p>We need to continue to give areas with a thin snowpack a lot of respect. This is getting tricky because it is hard to know by just looking at a slope if it is shallow. The only sure way is to have been following the progression of a slope through the winter so you KNOW how deep the snowpack is in that location. </p>