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Forecast for the Provo Area Mountains

Drew Hardesty
Issued by Drew Hardesty on
Friday morning, November 21, 2025

Welcome to the start of the 2025–2026 winter season.

The Utah Avalanche Center is back in full swing, and the staff is ready for another season in the mountains. For now, we’re waiting on more snow. In the meantime, it’s a great opportunity to dig out your gear. Beacon, shovel, and probe remain the three essentials. Take a few minutes to put your pack together, check batteries, and get your skis, board, or machine tuned and ready to go.

There’s no shortage of avalanche information online, and early season is the perfect time to refresh your knowledge. A quick review can go a long way once the snow starts to stack up. You can find a ton of classes and events in the Menu tab above.

We’ll keep you posted as storms line up and the season starts to take shape.

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Saturday, December 6 - 18th Annual Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop (USAW). This session will be held in-person at the Wasatch Jr High School Auditorium. 3750 S 3100 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84109. Information and tickets are available here.

Avalanche Awareness Week

The 7th Annual Avalanche Awareness is the first week of December! This week is jam-packed with events to get you ready for the season and a chance to connect with other backcountry users. We hope to see you out there! You can always find more information under the Events tab in the Menu above.

Weather and Snow

To no one's surprise, we are WAY below average in the northern and central parts of the state as we've seen storms arrive and then dive south. There's only a 2-6" of snow in the mountains and even that meager sum is confined to the highest shady terrain. Everything else is bone dry. I hope you've enjoyed your extended autumn of biking and golf. We'll see sunny skies through at least the early part of the weekend with mountain temps in the 30s and 40s prior to a STRONG, albeit moisture-starved cold front set to arrive on Monday. Temps will plummet into the single digits up high later Monday into Tuesday. We'll see maybe 2-4" of fluff (hardly what you'd want to build a foundation for your house) but at least the winds will be moderate to strong during and after frontal passage. HIgh and dry the rest of the week with temps warming into Thanksgiving with hints of a storm arriving over the weekend. We'll see.

Bo Torrey and Nikki Champion checked out the Southern Provo range last Saturday and found mostly bare ground, with a bit of lingering snow at the highest elevations on North-facing aspects, you can see a photo below. On 11/8, Brooke Maushund checked out the coverage on Timpanogos, you can find the observation HERE.

Recent Avalanches
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Additional Information

It's never too early to start thinking about avalanches. Here are a few things to consider doing:

  • Learn online. We have over 5 hours of free online learning at the Know Before You Go website
  • Check out the upcoming in-person Know Before You Go events HERE
  • Sign up for an on-snow class
  • Check out the UAC's education progression HERE
  • Get your avalanche rescue gear ready for winter. Put fresh batteries in your transceiver and update the firmware. Inspect your shovel and probe. Get your airbag backpack ready by possibly doing a test deployment and updating the firmware if it is an electric version or getting your canister refilled if it's not electronic.
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