Yesterday we found million dollar views, miles of smiles, amazing terrain, and great snow... all provided by Park City Powder Cats and their very generous, annual donation to the Utah Avalanche Center. Huge thanks to PCPC for all the amazing support and a big shout out to Ron, Johnny, Chris and the entire crew for hosting this bitchin' day... y'all rock :)
Another storm is on our doorstep. Clouds are streaming into the region, temperatures are about 10 degrees warmer than they were at this time yesterday and register in the upper 20's. Winds switched to the southwest early this morning and are blowing 10-20 mph along the high ridges. Warm temperatures, strong sunshine, and recent winds had their way with the snow surface, but wind sheltered mid and upper elevation, north facing terrain still offers shallow, cold snow.
Above... 24 hour winds from Windy Peak (10,166') and the Trail Lake snotel site (9,992')
Real time temperatures, snowfall and wind for the western Uintas are found here.
Snowpack observations and trip reports are found here.
A rider triggered this wind drift Tuesday on a steep, upper elevation, north facing, cross-loaded gully in Weber Canyon. Breaking about 2' deep and not particularly connected due to terrain features, I think there's a few pockets like this one still lurking in the wind zone today. (Provo image)
A full list of Uinta avalanche activity is found here.