Many thanks to everyone who helped support the Avalanche Center fundraiser at North San Pete High on Thursday night. In particular, big thanks to Cade and Brian Beck from SnowBigDeal.com for generously sponsoring the event, along with the athletes from Boondockers who braved a long drive to attend and autograph posters… y’all rock! It was great to see old friends and make some new ones too. We appreciate all the community support and look forward to more events in the future.

While not widespread, this weekend you’ll find pockets of Level 2 (Moderate) avalanche danger in steep, upper elevation, wind drifted terrain and human triggered avalanches are possible.

A Level 1 (Low) avalanche danger will be found at lower elevations and in wind sheltered terrain.

Skies are cloudy, winds blowing out of the north and north east at 10-20 mph along the ridges, and temperatures are in the low to mid teens. Thursday’s storm was more huff than fluff and much of our upper elevation terrain got stripped down to the dirt as a result of raging easterly winds. We did however, salvage 6” of snow out of the storm and among the bushes, stumps, and rocks, there’s a few patches of soft snow to be found. Click here for our trip report from yesterday.

Other observations can be found here.

No new avalanches to report, but many wind loaded slopes are easily collapsing with the additional weight of a rider.

An additional inch or two of snow is expected this morning, before skies begin to clear. Winds will remain out of the north and northeast at 10-20 mph along the ridges and high temperatures climb into the low to mid 20’s. Overnight lows dive into the single digits as yet another cold, dry storm approaches the region with little snow accumulation expected. Cold and cloudy conditions are on tap for Sunday with high pressure building for next week. There are no big storms in sight.

Your observations- snowpack, weather, avalanche, or just plain riding conditions are crucial to the success of this program and will help keep other riders alive! Please tell us what you’re seeing so we can provide the most accurate information. If you see or trigger an avalanche you can reach me craig@utahavalanchecenter.org or call 801-231-2170 or better yet, follow the links here to post your own observations.

Also, now is a great time to schedule one of our free avalanche awareness presentations for your group or club. Email or call me and we’ll get you booked before things get too crazy.