The calendar says it's time for sunglasses and skiing big lines, but mother nature says otherwise. It is full-on winter in the La Sal Range. The first wave of this AR event dropped 14" of snow at 2.1" of SWE. This made for excellent surfy pow conditions, but all of this snow comes with increasing avalanche danger. Dangerous avalanche conditions exist, and human triggered avalanches are likely, involving both new and wind drifted snow. The danger will be on the rise when the next wave of snow moves in around noon. The heaviest snowfall is forecast to occur overnight, but if heavy PI rates occur during the day, expect a corresponding rise in danger. If you have been getting into big terrain lately, it is certainly time to dial it back and keep things conservative.