Observation Date
3/1/2015
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake » Little Cottonwood Canyon » Scotties Bowl
Location Name or Route
Scotts, White Pine
Weather
Sky
Overcast
Wind Speed
Light
Weather Comments
Sun in the AM clouds and light showers in the afternoon, greenhousing when the sun poked through the thin clouds.
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Depth
6"
New Snow Density
Low
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Damp
Snow Characteristics Comments

About 6 inches of light density powder from yesterdays storm in the Scotts Peak area. Snow was getting a little damp on south through east when the sun poked through the clouds.

Comments

Seemed like everybody headed for the PC Ridgeline today, I guess a couple inches more snow is a big deal this year. Ended up on Scotts and in the White Pine drainage to keep my sanity intacked. We went from wind slabs yesterday back to loose and fairly long running sluffs in steeper terrain today. The new light density snow would sluff easily on the light density from the previous days. Of note was some of the sluffing on the steeper east facing terrain with a hard bed surface underlying it, the surface snow was getting just damp enough to sluff out all the new snow from the last week down to the old hard bed surface and entrain a fair amount of snow. That being said the sluffs were not running very fast and you could out run them and stay in front of them quite easily. South through east might have a zipper crust in the AM depending on how much sun they received, if we had a clear cold night it might recystalize by morning. Photos, skier initiated sluffs on Scotts, and a wind slab that was triggered by a animal yesterday.

Today's Observed Danger Rating
Low
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Low