The temperature is 11 degrees at the 8400' Tony Grove Snotel and there are several more inches of light new snow from yesterday capping heavier snow from Friday night. The snow pillow reports a gain of 2.8 inches of water in the last 72 hours, and I'm reading 79 inches of total snow, containing 109% of average water content for the date. The 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station reports 7 degrees and the wind sensor appears rimed. The UDOT Hwy 89 summit weather station reports 6 degrees and light to moderate wind from the northwest overnight, veering from the east with speeds in the single digits this morning. Dangerous conditions exist in the backcountry, and people should avoid travel in avalanche terrain today. Human triggered avalanches are likely. We recommend you stay off of and out from under obvious or historic avalanche paths and slopes steeper than about 30 degrees.
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A skier triggered and then escaped this shallow wind slab avalanche in Wildcat Bowl in the Wood Camp Area on Wednesday (1-27-16). Several other similar (apparently manageable) avalanches were triggered by people locally last week.
Ski Areas in the Ogden Area Mountains report active avalanche conditions yesterday, with numerous avalanches (some fairly large) intentionally triggered by avalanche control teams. A hiker on snow-shoes triggered and may have been caught in a loose (wet?) avalanche at the mouth of Logan Dry Canyon yesterday. We received few other reports locally from the backcountry, and with poor visibility of avalanche terrain, we're faced with a high degree of uncertainty regarding yesterday's probable natural activity.
There were several (apparently manageable) human triggered avalanches last week. These on north through east facing upper and mid elevation slopes were around a foot deep and up to about 50' wide.
A video posted on Facebook from a large sled triggered avalanche (1-19-16) in Christmas Tree Bowl is .....HERE
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