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Observation: Broads Fork/Mill B

Observation Date
1/23/2022
Observer Name
Hardesty and Watson
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Broads Fork/Mill B
Location Name or Route
Broads>Mill B South
Weather
Sky
Clear
Wind Direction
Northwest
Wind Speed
Light
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Depth
2"
New Snow Density
Medium
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Snow Characteristics Comments
"Powder" really as window dressing for everything else that was out there before: wind board, mf crust, recrystallized snow on protected northerlies; etc. The new settled 2" of storm snow should rapidly recrystallize as well. See photo below.
Red Flags
Red Flags Comments
None
Avalanche Problem #1
Problem
Gliding Snow
Problem #1 Comments
No very new glide avalanches, but some older ones. The ones slightly up canyon and down canyon of the Blue Ice area ran a bit farther than usual. Large slightly frowning glide cracks exist 2-300' wide on the slabs north of the Twins.
Comments
Snow is stable unless winds get out of hand with the mostly dry cold front Monday night.
Today's Observed Danger Rating
Low
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Low