The friends of the Utah Avalanche Center in Logan is presenting a snowmobile avalanche safety clinic in Logan, with a classroom session on Thursday.January 17 and a field session up at Tony Grove on Saturday January 19. Save the date, call 435-757-2794 for more information, and visit our website to register..... HERE
You'll find nice shallow re-crystallized powder in many areas... Last week's rime crust is widespread across the area under the powder from late last week, but it affects powder riding conditions differently in different areas. In some areas you can hardly feel it, while in others it almost supports your weight and it sounds like breaking glass when you move through it.
The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports a couple inches of new snow and it's zero degrees this morning, there is 47 inches of total snow, and the station reports 69% of average water content for the date. The CSI Logan Peak weather station at 9700' reports 2 degrees below zero, and northwest winds, with speeds averaging in the twenties and gusting into the thirties.
Locally; a few natural avalanches from Friday's storm were reported this weekend. Observers report a good sized hard slab, triggered by a cornice fall on a drifted slope at lower elevations on the west side of Cache Valley above Cutler Reservoir, and this is just one of several similar events that occurred in the Cache Valley foothills. Another observer reported seeing the blow-in evidence of a natural soft wind slab high in Logan Dry Canyon that was probably less than a foot deep when it occurred.
There were a couple close calls, accidents with partial and full burials and injuries in the mountains near Salt Lake City over the weekend, and thankfully everyone survived. Drew and Brett visited the perspective sites on Sunday and updated the accident reports. West Porter and Depth Hoar Bowl
Here's a link to our updated avalanche list...
