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Week in Review for Friday, March 6th - Thursday, March 12th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: We (finally) drop the PWL as an avalanche problem on Saturday as we transition to an overall LOW avalanche danger. Glide avalanches continue to run in Broads, Mill B South, and Stairs Gulch. All eyes are on the incoming “heat dome” and expected record-breaking temperatures for mid to late week. The danger mirrors the forecaster's worries about wet slab avalanches. We issue a Press Release on Wednesday afternoon …

Week in Review for Friday, March 6th - Thursday, March 12th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: The week begins as one of the bigger storms of the year is winding down. Many agree that it was some of the best skiing and riding of the year - a good old fashioned LCC special with right-side-up blower powder. The main problems through the week are wind slabs, wet loose avalanches and an increasingly dormant PWL. The overall danger on Friday starts at CONSIDERABLE; but by Thursday we have a green rose of LOW. …

Week in Review for Friday, February 27th - Thursday, March 5th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: The main concerns this week centered around an increasingly dormant PWL, wind slabs around the compass, and rising danger for wet loose avalanches on solar aspects. Even though the last known avalanche that failed on the buried Dry January Layer of facets was on Thursday, February 26, the danger remains CONSIDERABLE for much of the week. A storm drops a foot of heavy, dense snow Monday night, but the new snow …

This piece written to us by longtime friend and backcountry skier John Climaco I spent Sunday skiing PCMR with my daughter, much of it trying to explain to her why I was so upset. Conditions in the resort were perfect and the sky was blue but ironically it was the view that gnawed at me all day. The Park City ridgeline, covered with a deep coating of fresh snow, was being devoured by a small army of riders seemingly oblivious to the considerable danger they were aggressively courting. Every steep shot south of Murdock Peak save for main Squaretop and No Name Bowl, was tracked. So …

Week in Review for Friday, February 20th - Thursday, February 26th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: We start this week already rocked from two avalanche fatalities from Wednesday (Ant Knolls) and Thursday (Rock Garden area of the Brighton backcountry). A Special Avalanche Bulletin is issued Friday through the weekend, anticipating a dangerous mix of blue skies, excellent powder, and dangerous conditions. Tragically, the string continues, with two full burials in Butler Basin of BCC on Saturday (one injured, …

This WiR was co-authored by UAC Forecasters Nikki Champion & Brooke Maushund. Week in Review for Friday, February 13th - Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: A weak snowpack structure gets a minor first load without too many obvious signs of instabilities, but all the red flags are there. A series of healthy storms arrive late Monday night, dropping close to 50” of new snow (4.7” H2O) by Thursday morning. An Avalanche WATCH is issues Monday through Tuesday, and is elevated to an …

Week in Review for Friday, February 6th - Thursday, February 12th, 2026 We look back at the key events from the previous week. Click HERE for archived forecasts. Summary: High and dry conditions prevail through the weekend with mountain temperatures again well above freezing. Backcountry parties trigger wet loose sluffs on solar aspects almost large enough to bury a person on Saturday in Big Cottonwood Canyon, but there’s little else to discuss. The much-anticipated weather pattern change is signalled by a cold front Monday evening. The avalanche danger oscillates between LOW …