Uintas » Bear River Ranger District » Whitney Basin
Location Name or Route
Whitney Basin, Double Hill
Comments
1. The winds today were quite gusty at times and much of the open riding terrain was wind damaged.
2. It was easy to observe how the wind was creating slab like snow conditions while out riding a sled.
The upper Whitney Basin went through a good natural avalanche cycle from the big weekend storm. Many of these slides were on north and northeast facing slopes where the snowpack was thin and weak prior to the storm.
Some cornices along the ridgelines have grown large and broke off naturally, triggering some isolated slab avalanches high on the slope.
