I am like anyone else. I look up to different individuals in my life for advise, especially advise about the snowpack. Every mentor - friend - colleague - that I know and trust, continues to tell me that the snowpack structure is no good. We have a massive slab (3-6 feet of dense strong snow) sitting on very weak and faceted snow at the ground. It's like the new Director (Mark Staples) says, it's kindergarten science - it really is that easy to understand this problem. Slopes that face the north half of the compass that are approaching 35 degrees in steepness should be avoided.

This doesn't mean the season is over for us.... In fact, this is really good news! All we have to do is wait for this snow to eventually heal and we will have a very good snowpack in northern Utah. This past storm did wonders for our snowpack and eventually we can turn the corner to a deep homogenous (even layered snowpack). Remember deep snow is strong snow and shallow snow is weak snow.

For now, it's not the time to get after the steeper terrain, we need to give the snowpack time to breathe and adjust to its new load.