Observation: Alta Periphery

Overcast

West

Strong

Skies were overcast and cloud layer was low through out the morning. The real story was with the wind at the top of the canyon. When traveling through Catherine's winds were predominantly out the west. Later in the tour we traveled to the saddle between Rocky Point & Point Supreme where we observed heavy transport happening with winds out of the south & east rapidly moving snow onto the Alta side. Transport was happening both at the ridgeline and lower in dry fork out of the east. My take away is that with winds as strong as they were & swirling at the top of the canyon, I would expect to find wind slabs at high & mid elevations on all aspects. Video 1 is of the ridgeline. Video 2 is wind transport happening lower in Dry Fork.