The Logan Summit weather cam is showing snowfall this morning, and the 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports a couple more inches of new snow containing 3/10ths of an inch of water overnight, bringing the last two day's accumulation up to about 6 inches. It's 20 degrees and there's 98 inches of total snow, containing 120% of average water content for the date. The 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station reports 22 degrees and 30 mph average wind speeds from the southwest, with gusts over 60 mph this morning. Colder temperatures solidified the saturated weak snow at lower elevations, and you stay on top of a solidly refrozen crust in an inch or two of fresh snow from yesterday. Riding conditions up high are nice, but I'm still avoiding steep terrain due to widespread poor snow structure and the gradually diminishing chance that I could trigger an un-survivable avalanche.
Bruce Tremper just published a Storm Analysis Blog that explains aspects our recent active natural avalanche cycle. HERE And he explains this weekend's generalized snow situation well in this video
It's been almost a week since our last reported avalanche activity in the Logan Zone.
Looking at a very large natural avalanche in Pine Canyon in the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness on 2-19-2014
***Video look at a HUGE natural avalanche in the Wellsville Range, from 2-19-2014...........HERE
Last week, in addition to numerous large natural avalanches in the backcountry, there were a few close calls with dangerous unintentionally triggered avalanches and another incredibly lucky survival story in the Providence Canyon Area, in which a rider was completely buried, rescued by his partners unconscious and unresponsive, but recovered and was able to ride out on his own....SEE REPORT
Check out "Beaver Backside is the Backcountry," an Avalanche observation video from 2-16-2014 .....HERE
A child's perspective on last week's natural wet avalanche above Zanavoo in Logan Canyon filmed on 2-17-2014 .......HERE