Our Week in Review highlights significant snowfall, weather, and avalanche events of the previous week. (Click here to review the archived forecasts for the Salt Lake mountains.) The danger roses for the Salt Lake mountains from Friday Jan 18 through Thursday Jan 24: Summary: A significant storm late the previous week raises the avalanche hazard, and the UAC issues an avalanche warning for the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. A second storm early in the week with heavy snow and strong winds. Sadly, the first avalanche fatality of the year occurs on the Manti Skyline over the …

Our Week in Review highlights significant snowfall, weather, and avalanche events of the previous week. (Click here to review the archived forecasts for the Salt Lake mountains.) The danger roses for the Salt Lake mountains from Friday Jan 11 through Thursday Jan 17: Summary: Increasing stability early in the week, with rising hazard towards week's end. Avalanche warning issued by the UAC on Thursday January 17. Friday January 11 - Quiet with no backcountry avalanches reported. Indications of increasing stability, but persistent weaknesses remain throughout the mountains in …

In this podcast, we talk again with Dave Richards, head of Alta Snow Safety. In the fall of 2017, Dave gave a presentation at the Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop to a packed house of 600 people on the real dangers of traumatic stress with public safety personnel, particularly in avalanche rescue. This was ground breaking for our industry because it wasn't just the message, it was the messenger that made it so impactful. Last season we talked with Dave about The Day of Madness.

Overview: A significant storm system dropped nearly 3 feet of snow in the Cottonwoods from December 21 through December 31. From Tuesday January 1, through Friday January 4, cold clear weather prevailed, allowing the surface of the snowpack to weaken, producing a widepsread layer of near-surface facets. Southwest winds began to increase on Friday January 4, and into the day on Saturday January 5. These winds deposited fresh wind drifts onto these weak facets, conditions which allowed several human-triggered avalanches to occur during the day on Saturday January 5. Although several avalanches …

Our Week in Review highlights significant snowfall, weather, and avalanche events of the previous week. (Click here to review the archived forecasts for the Salt Lake mountains.) The danger roses for the Salt Lake mountains from Friday Jan 4 through Thursday Jan 10: Summary: Rising hazard, with dangerous avalanche conditions over the weekend and into the first part of the week, where the Utah Avalanche Center issues an Avalanche Warning for the Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake, Provo, and Uinta mountains. Increasing stability as the week progressed. Snow and water amounts …

For Winter 2018/2019, we are producing not just another season of conversations with avalanche professionals and those whose work has contributed to our profession, but what we are calling Blog-Casts. These are simply podcast shorts of essays and pieces that we hope will give the listener something to consider before or while they are in the backcountry. February 5, 2019: Blogcast 3: The Wisdom of the Crowds - Original post here. January 8, 2019: Blogcast 1: Guilt - Original post here. January 22, 2019: Blogcast 2: The Metamorphism …

Our Week in Review highlights significant snowfall, weather, and avalanche events of the previous week. (Click here to review the archived forecasts for the Salt Lake mountains.) The danger roses for the Salt Lake mountains from Friday December 28 through Thursday Jan 3: Summary: A storm right before the New Years, sandwiched with two northeast/east wind events with several natural and skier-triggered wind slabs. Friday December 28 - Moderate to strong winds out of the east/northeast easily drift the low-density snow at the surface, creating wind drifts and wind-affected snow at …