Observation Date
3/2/2014
Observer Name
Hardesty and Hughes
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Grizzly Gulch » Patsy Marly
Location Name or Route
Grizzly to Michigan City to Patsy Marley
Weather
Sky
Scattered
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Speed
Calm
Weather Comments
Beautiful weather with warm temps and light wind. Enough sun and temps conspired to dampen the southerlies and northerly aspects up to 8800' give or take -
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Density
High
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Dense Loose
Damp
Snow Characteristics Comments

Quite good skiing from one snow pit to the next

Red Flags
Red Flags
Recent Avalanches
Heavy Snowfall
Red Flags Comments
No cracking or collapsing noted, though LCC avalanche teams triggered size 1, 2, and 3.5 on the destructive scale today.
Avalanche Problem #1
Problem
New Snow
Problem #1 Comments

Warming and lack of additional stress (snow, wind, solar rad) points toward continued stabilization in sheltered terrain. Despite full propagation ECT on density change roughly 40cm down on northerly terrain at 9700', feel that this may "overstate" the sensitivity to a great degree...and healing is on the upswing.

Had only a short period of time for a field day and went to look a the skier triggered slide(s) above Michigan City above Grizzly Gulch. They were more interesting than I originally thought they would be -

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