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Observation: Broads Fork

Observation Date
3/26/2021
Observer Name
Jim & Erik Steenburgh
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Broads Fork
Location Name or Route
Broads Fork/Lake Blanche
Weather
Sky
Obscured
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Direction
North
Wind Speed
Light
Weather Comments
Fully overcast in Broads Fork/Lake Blanche today through our exit at 5:30. Periods of poor visibility. Intermittent snow and graupel showers totaling about 1 cm, although it was snowing hard at the trailhead when we left. About 12 cm new at the Beaver pond, 18 cm near 9500 feet near Big West. Air mainly calm in morning. Afternoon winds sometimes gusty with convection with some minor surface snow movement during our climb to the divide with Lake Blanche fork.
Red Flags
Red Flags Comments
None. Forecast of low accurate.
Comments
Skied Big West, unnamed run between Big West and main Broads, and Eenie Meenie. Conditions in former two very good with some bottom feeding in places from buried windboard or old tracks. Eenie Meanie wetter but fun. Some wet sloughing of new snow on melt-freeze crust at lower elevation on Eenie Meenie
Today's Observed Danger Rating
Low
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Low
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