Our annual party and fundraiser is coming up on December 6 in Logan at the Cache. 19th Annual Utah Avalanche Center Pray for Snow Party and Fundraiser information and tickets
HERE.
Join the Utah Avalanche Center and the Division of Outdoor Recreation to celebrate the Fourth Annual Avalanche Awareness week, from December 4 - December 11. Click
HERE to view the full list of events for the week.
Today, you'll still be able to find nice powder in the backcountry, especially in sheltered terrain, but dangerous conditions exist on drifted upper elevation slopes. South winds are increasing another notch this morning so we can expect continued drifting in exposed terrain. Wind slabs built up and are now getting thicker and harder as snow is drifted onto steep upper elevation slopes plagued by widespread sugary weak snow. Early season shallow snow conditions exist across the Logan Zone, and there are numerous shallowly buried land mines out there.
Expect rising avalanche danger in the backcountry, likely rising to HIGH by tomorrow morning. The National Weather Service in Pocatello issued a
Winter Storm Warning through 11:00 tomorrow morning for the Bear River Range. A powerful winter storm could bring up to two feet of snow to upper elevation terrain tonight with strong and gusty southwest winds. Another good storm is on the tracks for later in the weekend.
A party of riders report triggering a few small, manageable, soft slab avalanches on north facing slopes at upper elevations in Providence Canyon on Tuesday.
See our updated list of observed avalanches from across Utah
HERE
Tuesday, we couldn't see much at upper elevations due to the clouds, but we easily triggered cracking and collapsing, and we remotely triggered a very soft slab at around 7000' in elevation right off the Franklin Basin Road. Nikki found nice feathers of preserved surface hoar under the fresh powder and shallow Thanksgiving snow...