Observation: Bountiful Peak

Observation Date
2/2/2026
Observer Name
S Donovan
Region
Ogden » Bountiful mountains » Bountiful Peak
Location Name or Route
Bountiful Peak
Weather
Weather Comments
The weather (unfortunately?) remains to be extremely pleasant for high elevation snow travel.
Snow Characteristics
Snow Surface Conditions
Faceted Loose
Wind Crust
Snow Characteristics Comments

Loose and thoroughly faceted throughout the snowpack.

Red Flags
Red Flags
Wind Loading
Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comments
Enough wind loading to make shallow slabs in the most exposed locations, but generally a non-issue. Upper elevations are shallow consisting of faceted snow sandwiched between wind crusts that are at most a few centimeters thick. Snow depth is about 30” in sheltered locations. The mid-snowdepth crust is still existent but with about a foot of sugary facets resting on top of it, and below. Same story repeats itself here of it being easy to initiate sluffing of weakened snow in steep terrain. Photo shows a hasty pit just below the ridge line on a NW face at 9100’. Showing faceted snow between various wind crusts.
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