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Forecast for the Uintas Area Mountains

Andrew Nassetta
Issued by Andrew Nassetta on
Monday morning, December 15, 2025

Human-triggered avalanches are POSSIBLE today with pockets of MODERATE avalanche danger existing at upper elevations where a dense slab sits atop early-season faceted snow. Although this is not a widespread problem, avoid suspect terrain on the north half of the compass that is steep, thin, and rocky, and has sufficient snow to ride.

For the best riding and to avoid avalanches, I am heading for protected snow on low-angle, upper-elevation slopes with a northerly component to them.

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Weather and Snow

Nowcast - Just as the sun started to show this morning, temperatures reported in the low 30's F° near trailheads and in the low 20's up around 10,000'. A light breeze from the west continued through the night and has been calm, around 5-10 MPH.

Forecast - Another round of sunny skies is on tap for today, and things should feel similar to yesterday as temperatures warm up into the mid 30's °F. Light winds blowing from the west southwest continue around 5-10 MPH and should stay tame throughout the day.

Futurecast - Keep doing the snow dance for the mid-week storm. It does look like a mild system slides through the region sometime Wednesday, hopefully bringing a couple inches of mountain snowfall with it.

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Travel Conditions - From crusts to wind-boards, facets to spring slush, you can pretty much find it all out there. Yesterday, we did manage to find some supportable riding in protected, shady terrain out of the wind zone and away from suns rays. The snow surface and coverage are variable across the range, and once we start to get some snow, it is going to be a tricky setup.

Looking west at the Central Uintas from the top of Murdock Peak, and although it's thin, plenty of folks were out and about hiking, skiing, and getting up high in the range.

The crew low-angle jamming near Murdock yesterday in protected, shady, north-facing terrain with a slope angle of about 20° -- Ideal for low tide and early season turns.

Recent Avalanches

There is no new avalanche activity to report, but you can find lots of travel reports and observations from across the range and beyond below.

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Avalanche Problem #1
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Last week sometime, a party of riders triggered this avalanche on the North Slope near the Humpy Basin. Evidence is sparse, but some strong detective work from Professional Observer Trevor Katz helped piece things together, and we speculate a catch and carry that looks to be a close call. You can find more on their report here.

Upper elevation slopes facing the north half of the compass harbor early-season snow that grew weak and sugary during the November dryspell. Last week's storms combined with strong winds buried the weak layer 1-2 feet deep, creating our main avalanche hazard, persistent slab avalanches. Suspect terrain includes shady, upper-elevation, rocky slopes where, once triggered, today's avalanches could break wider than you expect and prove to be a nasty ride.

It has been over a week since the last persistent slab avalanche was reported. As time wears on and the snowpack finds comfort in its own skin, we are seeing fewer red flags, or obvious clues of instability like cracking and collapsing. But sometimes we need to take a deeper look under the hood to understand what is going on. A quick shovel excavation reveals a strong, dense slab over weak, sugary snow. That combo creates a trap-door feeling when we're trenching our sled or ski track.

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This forecast is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions, and local variations always occur. This forecast was issued on Monday, December 15th at 0500 AM and expires 24 hours after it was issued. We'll update this information by 07:00 AM tomorrow.

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