Observation Date
3/2/2019
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline » Monitors
Location Name or Route
Monitors
Comments
By the time we got to W Monitor the entire bowl was filled with fog and visibility was about 2 ft, we moved over to S Monitor and got just enough visibility to ski, you could still feel the bottom but it was mostly smooth, ski cuts and cornice drops got zero results and the only instabilities noted was minor sluffing in the upper few inches of new light density snow. The fog lifted out of W Monitor when we were hiking out of S so we went over to the center punch dropped a small cornice with no results threw in a ski cut for good measures and skied it. There was not much wind on the ridge line which meant there was no snow transport or wind slabs in the starting zones. More snow and wind will most likely increase the hazard especially wind in my opinion, the new snow is sitting on a hard bed surface in many areas and a slick bed surface with a wind slab could potentially get things moving in steep terrain.
Photos: looming cornices, and a fogged out W Monitor


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