Skies are partly cloudy in the wake of yesterday's violent cold front. Mountain temps are in the teens to low 20s up high, the low 30s at the trailheads. Winds are from the west blowing 15-20mph. Storm totals from yesterday's brief event only added up to a trace to an inch along the Ogden skyline and 2-3" of heavy dense snow in the Monte Cristo and Powder Mountain zones (0.3-0.5" snow water equivalent). The rain-snow line was around 8000', give or take.

For today, we'll see increasing clouds and perhaps a flurry or two. Temperatures will slowly rise over the course of the day with the mercury again above freezing along the ridgelines tonight. The winds will lose some steam this morning before ramping up out of the west again tonight. These winds will again reach STRONG tonight into tomorrow with the arrival of another wet, windy, and warm storm through Saturday. We may see 3-6" of heavy dense snow and up to one inch of snow water equivalent. We'll see. The rain-snow lines are expected to be around 8000'.

Travel is pretty rough and rugged with only one to two feet of snow on the ground; most of this is made up of hard wind and temperature crusts with some damp to dry weak faceted snow near the ground on the polar aspects.