Observation Date
4/23/2020
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Cardiff Fork » Cardiac Ridge
Location Name or Route
Cardiac Ridge
Comments
Headed into Cardiff via Alta, zero visibility, and moderate snowfall until 2pm, more showery after that. Skied into the Keyhole which is full of frozen clinkers, bad call on my part. Then headed to Hansen's on Cardiac Ridge, mainly because it has a few trees and helped with the nauseating vertigo in the dense fog. The new snow skied well on smooth lower angle slopes, not so well on the steeps or slopes with old tracks or debris. The wind was nuking on the ridge line but it wasn't slabbing up the new snow in the terrain covered, there's also not much new snow for transport. If we don't receive much more new snow I would expect the hazard to remain low except for shallow wind slabs in select locations.
photos: graupel, wind on the ridge line and the rising cloud deck in the afternoon



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