Observation Date
1/23/2020
Observer Name
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Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Cardiff Fork
Location Name or Route
Cardiff/Cardiac
Comments
Travel today was up over Cardiff Pk, Keyhole into upper Cardiff, Hansen's on Cardiac Ridge, Rockslabs, Ivory Flakes and out BCC. The dense new snow was coated with a thin rime crust, it seems like the rimming event occurred this morning seeing it was on top of the new snow. Sluffing was pretty hard to come by do to the high density of the snow. There was a bit of cracking in the new snow due to the density inversion but nothing too alarming. Visibility was hard to come by most of the day, so I didn't get a very good look at the high peaks.
photos: thin rime crust, and the low cloud deck.


Today's Observed Danger Rating
Moderate
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Moderate