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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.

As expected with all the uncertainty, the storms didn’t produce as much as the higher numbers were calling for. Across the Wasatch, we saw a mix of rain and snow with final totals coming in at:

Little Cottonwood: 1.5 to 4 inches of snow (0.15 to 0.45 inches H2O)

Big Cottonwood: Trace to 4 inches of snow (0.10 to 0.31 inches H2O)

Park City Ridgeline: Trace to 2 inches of snow (0.0 to 0.24 inches H2O)

A weak southerly system is spinning well to our south, so the Wasatch could see light, on and off mountain snow starting this afternoon and continuing through Friday. Nothing big, just passing showers with modest accumulations at upper elevations if we get lucky. The unsettled pattern could continue into early next week, though uncertainty is still high.

Snow conditions remain pretty grim. Before this storm, the highest elevation northerly slopes were the only places holding any snow. There was about 4 to 10 inches on the ground, and in many spots, it was textured or not well-connected. Everything else was bare ground. As Drew said, it is worth noting where the dirt is because it might be the safest place to ride once storms really start rolling for us. Slopes with old snow will be guilty until proven innocent.

Observations have been quiet overall, but Trent Meisenheimer and Dave Kelly poked around upper Little Cottonwood last week, and their observation is linked here. Mark White and Jenna Malone were out on the Cottonwood ridgeline and the Park City ridgeline, and I’ve stitched together a short video you can find here.

Coverage Prior to the storm in Upper Little Cottonwood - Kelly/Meisenheimer