The avalanche danger will remain MODERATE on slopes approaching 35 degrees and steeper for both wind slabs within the new snow, mostly along the upper elevation ridges and also for damp or wet avalanches at lower elevations. Remember, most of the ski areas are closed for the season, and no one is doing any avalanche control.

Alta Collins weather station is up to 10 inches of new snow with one inch of water weight. Most other locations have about half that amount. It started out as a very warm storm and you can still feel the wet snow underneath the new snow. The first 5 inches came in with temperatures near freezing and the snow later on Saturday came in after temperatues dropped into the mid 20's. The temps are expected to be in the lower 20's overnight.

Avalanche activity was the usual variety you would expect with a wet, spring storm like this. One slab released near the top of Superior and traveled 2/3rds of the way down as a wet avalanche. Another similar slide released off of Baldy. Snowbird is the only area still open and they were reporting some small, new snow slides.

And it ain't over yet. We have yet another disturbance dropping down from Canada, which should arrive on Sunday, giving us yet more snow with perhaps 3-6 more inches for the upper elevations of the Cottonwood Canyons. This will come in with temperatures in the lower 20's along the ridge tops, so the new snow will be lighter than the damp snow we had on Saturday. Then, the extended forecast calls for periods of weak disturbances for the rest of the weak as storm rotate around a low pressure center to the north of us.

We will be issuing intermittent afternoon avalanche advisories until around the end of April.

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The information in this advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.