Observation: Central Bear River Range

Weather

Sky

Few

Wind Direction

Northwest

Wind Speed

Light

Weather Comments

Cold and winter-like in the morning. Mostly only a light breeze, but some drifting was occurring up higher.

Snow Characteristics

New Snow Depth

5"

New Snow Density

Low

Snow Surface Conditions

Powder

Snow Characteristics Comments

Nice shallow powder conditions

Avalanche Problem #1

Problem

Wind Drifted Snow

Trend

Same

Problem #1 Comments

We did not find much recently drifted snow in the area we visited today, but there is potential for people to trigger small slab avalanches of wind drifted snow in exposed upper elevation terrain.