Snowpack

Observation: Chicken Sh#! Ridge

Hardesty, Wilson, Harris, EastmanSalt Lake
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Red Flags
Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
Red Flags Comment
<p>Would expect a few remnant wind drifts, and both wet and dry sluffs from today...all fairly manageable for those with experience.</p>

Snowpack

Should be quite the variability out there for tomorrow in terms of which slopes will be crusted and which ones will not; though I'd plan for all northeast, south, and west and northwest to be crusted in the morning.  

Spring sun immediately transformed the snow with easy to initiate wet push-a-lanches in the steep sun-kissed slopes.  Shallow dry sluffs noted on steepest pitches as well.  Neither initiated larger than size 1.  People certainly getting after it today.   

Some potential for quick faceting in the top few mms of snow; though graupel tends not to be as much of a player as dendrites; etc.  will look for potential bond with Sunday storm -