Only 1 more week to support the UAC when you shop at Whole Foods. The Whole Foods Bag Donation ends March 31. When you bring your own bags to Whole Foods in Sugar House, Trolley Square, and Cottonwood Heights you can choose to have the UAC be the recipient of your 10 cent bag credit.
The UAC Marketplace is still open. Our online marketplace still has deals on skis, packs, airbag packs, beacons, snowshoes, soft goods and much more.
This morning it's clear, cold and crisp - with current mountain temperatures in the single digits to low teens F°. Winds are from the north and light, averaging 5-10 mph at upper elevations. The last few snowflakes fell yesterday afternoon, leaving behind a fairly uniform 4-8" of new snow in the SLC mountains.
There is a supportable crust beneath the new snow on most all aspects and elevations up to about 10,000'. Upper elevation northerly facing slopes are holding the best of the shallow, cold dry snow. The icy crusts may not soften for the next few days, so be prepared for hard, “slide for life” conditions on many aspects in steep terrain.
Mark White and Drew Hardesty have observations that are worth reading found HERE.
Most all the avalanche activity yesterday was within the new snow. Many loose dry avalanches were reported, these were confined but not limited to steep northerly facing terrain.
Observers were out in the bigger terrain in LCC yesterday and noted large and destructive avalanches that ran naturally sometime around Thursday, March 22nd. They were all class 3 in destructive size, facing north through east and in the elevation range of 10,200-10,500'. These slide were observed in Box Elder, Pheifferhorn, and the Hogum head wall.
Photo: Left - L.Dunn showing a dry loose avalanche. Photo: right - Mark White showing another dry loose avalanche.
