SAVE THE DATES!
Wednesday, December 4 - USU KBYG (Know Before You Go) Night, USU ARC
Heavy snowfall and drifting by strong winds elevated avalanche conditions in the backcountry. Weak, sugary, or faceted snow from earlier in November is widespread in upper-elevation terrain. Today, in places where this weak snow exists on slopes steeper than 30°, a person could trigger loose or soft slab avalanches of storm snow and/or small hard slab avalanches of wind-drifted snow.
- The 8500' Tony Grove Snotel reports 5 inches of new snow in the last 24 hours, with 18 inches of total snow on the ground. I'm also reading 5 inches of new snow at the 8800' UAC Card Canyon weather station, with 22" of total snow.
- The winds came around from the northwest and diminished significantly overnight. Currently, the wind is blowing from the northwest 18 mph, with overnight gusts around 30 mph at 9700' at the CSI Logan Peak weather station and 15 mph with gusts of around 25 mph on Paris Peak.
- After a break Sunday afternoon through Monday, storminess will return with the potential for decent additional accumulations in the mountains and winter driving conditions leading up to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Shallow, early-season conditions exist in the Bear River Range. Keep your speed down, hitting shallowly buried rocks, stumps, or down trees could end your season before it really begins......
No avalanches have been reported recently in the Logan Zone, but remember, avalanches are most likely during and just after storms on slopes steeper than 30°.
