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Skies are partly cloudy this morning, and temperatures have a large head start on yesterday – many stations are 7 to 10 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago – currently right around 40°F at the mid elevtions in the Provo area mountains. The west to southwesterly winds are breezy, averaging 10 to 15 mph at the mid elevations, with the high peaks to the north averaging to 25 mph.
The snowpack remains grim at the lower elevations in the Provo area mountains, and access is difficult as many of the trailheads are melted out. Tibble Fork is bare dirt, Aspen Grove claims 7" of snow (in the shade I suspect) and Timp divide snotel is a shallow 23".
There are widespread icy crusts at the mid and upper elevations, some which may not soften, so be prepared for hard, “slide for life” conditions on many aspects in steep terrain. Ice axes, crampons and ski crampons may be appropriate for steep objectives.
No avalanches were reported from the Provo area mountains. What caught my attention was yesterday’s couple of explosive released wind slabs in the Cottonwoods that failed on last Friday’s buried graupel. These slides were on northerly facing slopes, above 10,500’, 4 to 16” deep, and had debris deep enough to bury a person. Similar snow conditions might be found in the upper elevations of the Provo area mountains.