To get help in an emergency (to request a rescue) in the Wasatch, call 911. Be prepared to give your GPS coordinates or the run name.
If you trigger an avalanche in the backcountry, but no one is hurt and you do not need assistance, please notify the nearest ski area dispatch to avoid a needless response by rescue teams. Thanks.
It's another mild day in the mountains, with a few high thin clouds drifting by and a significant temperature inversion. While the canyon bottoms are in the teens, the 9 to 11,000’ temperatures are in the twenties and low thirties. An easterly flow is creating gusty winds at the canyon mouths and at Sundance's mid mountain station (15 mph averages, gusting 20 to 25 mph). Speeds are almost calm at other mountain locations, with speeds less than 10 mph, even at 11,000’. If you are searching for soft snow, head to wind sheltered, low angle shady slopes, where there is “loud powder” in the growing surface hoar, at mid to upper lelvations. All the sunny slopes are crusted, but will soften with daytime heating.
Access remains difficult in the Provo area mountains, with about a foot of snow low down, and up to 2 feet at around 9,000'.
An excellent observation from the Provo area mountains yesterday by Woody and Trent who went and looked at the Bunnels avalanche. No new observations or avalanches reported from the Provo area mountains yesterday.