Observation Date
3/28/2014
Observer Name
Hardesty, Wilson, Harris, Eastman
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Days Fork » Chicken Sh#! Ridge
Location Name or Route
Silver Meadows over to Chicken Sh*t Ridge
Weather
Sky
Scattered
Wind Direction
West
Weather Comments
Intermittent sun and clouds.
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Depth
8"
New Snow Density
Medium
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Damp
Snow Characteristics Comments

Should be quite the variability out there for tomorrow in terms of which slopes will be crusted and which ones will not; though I'd plan for all northeast, south, and west and northwest to be crusted in the morning.

Spring sun immediately transformed the snow with easy to initiate wet push-a-lanches in the steep sun-kissed slopes. Shallow dry sluffs noted on steepest pitches as well. Neither initiated larger than size 1. People certainly getting after it today.

Some potential for quick faceting in the top few mms of snow; though graupel tends not to be as much of a player as dendrites; etc. will look for potential bond with Sunday storm -

Red Flags
Red Flags
Recent Avalanches
Wind Loading
Rapid Warming
Red Flags Comments
Would expect a few remnant wind drifts, and both wet and dry sluffs from today...all fairly manageable for those with experience.
Today's Observed Danger Rating
Moderate
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Moderate