Went up Broads Fork to the Diving Board today, the sun was out and the winds were light while I was breaking trail up, soon after my first run the skies got grey, light snowfall started and the wind increased filling in my ski tracks and skin trail before I could get back up to the top again. The snow on the Diving Board was starting to get a wind skin and slabbing up from the SE winds, and also getting a bit cross loaded. I wasn’t really worried about the slope I was on but more so about what was hanging over my head, the SLC Twins, which were getting a lot more wind and wind loading. Seems like the whole drainage went through a large avalanche cycle during last weeks storm and is more filled in than I’ve seen it in years. The glide cracks above and next to the Diving Board are yawning fairly wide and was glad the temperatures were so cold to keep them locked in place.

Photos: two of the glide cracks next to the Diving Board, and wind moving snow in the upper basin

Not sure what the wind was doing in other locations but wind slabs and cross loading in odd areas my be problematic in extreme terrain tomorrow.