Observation Date
1/25/2019
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Cardiff Fork
Location Name or Route
Cardiff Fork
Comments
Skied in the Cardiac area and the Ivory Flakes area today, I’m thinking the new snow instabilities are a thing of the past and the storm snow has mostly settled out and stabilized, there’s about 3 meters of snow on the ground in upper Cardiac, but the outliers with a thin snow pack in rocky steep terrain are still suspect in my opinion. Warming temperatures might also become problematic on steep sunny slopes on the S end of the compass. The wind was blowing moderately throughout the day and if this continues new wind slabs may become a issue on steep wind loaded slopes.
Photos: the wind filling in the skin track as fast as you could break it in the afternoon on Ivory Flakes, and Mark Staples head director of the UAC doing his own stability testing


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