The Uinta's are super thin right now and our snowpack is losing strength. Since I generally have a glass half full kinda outlook, I'd say our snowpack is more structurally challenged rather than weak. However, I can't deny the fact that we've got issues and once it snows or if the wind starts to crank, we'll see avalanches.... and this is why. The snowpack is comprised of sugary facets near the ground, with a couple of mid-pack crusts of varying thickness and strength, topped off with 6" of light density snow in protected areas, and in more wind exposed terrain, a supportable wind slab. For right now, the avalanche danger is pretty straight-forward and a few fresh drifts along the leeward side of upper elevation ridges is today's main avalanche concern. Remember- even a shallow slide can take you for a nasty ride through rocks and stumps barely hidden under our shallow snowpack.
As usual, JG submitted a great write up of his travels and his snowpit diagram illustrates the overall structure.
Snow depths in our travels were a bit more on the shallow side.
In either case, the snow near the ground continues to lose strength.
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