Expect a brisk start to the morning and partly cloudy skies, most mountain basins hovering in the single digits to low teens. Winds remain calm out of the northeast, with the highest peaks blowing in 15-20 mph range.
However, this is a different story to what happened on Thursday afternoon where southwest winds were cranking 50-75 mph along the highest peaks. As the initial part of the storm passed the winds switched to the northwest and almost immediately died. A fresh coat of low density snow falling straight out of the sky fell Thursday night giving the northern Uintas a modest 3-5 inches of new snow in the higher elevations.
Mirror Lake Highway area stayed unsettled for most the day on Friday, bringing the total new snow in the 6-8 inch range. Most of the lower elevations picked up only an inch or two. Depending on your location yesterday you either had sunny skies or a snowy winter wonderland.
This past storm was a nice shot of snow for the Uintas. However, the fact is that it remains very thin out there. The best bet is sticking to the road or grassy meadows.
Recent trip reports and observations are found here.
While we didn't see or hear of any avalanche activity, we did get one report of collapsing/whooping reported yesterday on a wind loaded NE facing slope at 10,600ft in Upper Weber Canyon. Remember collapsing and whooping sounds are a big indicators of unstable snow.
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