There is a LOW avalanche danger in the Logan Area backcountry, and you'll find generally safe avalanche conditions.  Watch for freshly deposited, shallow wind slabs on isolated and exposed upper elevation terrain features.

You know things are bad when you get excited about an angry inch.  And that's all we got last night, but it should freshen and soften things up a bit.  Thanks to the dense snow and the rain-crust from the 12th and 13th and more recent cold nighttime temperatures, there’s still some decent snow coverage above around 8000’.  In the past two weeks, sublimation of water vapor, driven by a temperature gradient in the shallow snowpack caused the development of faceted snow under the crust.  In more and more places, the crust has weakened and you break through it more frequently.

Snow showers in the mountains should wind down this morning as a high pressure system moves into the region.  A developing inversion will trap northwesterly winds at ridge top and lower elevations and NWS forecasters predict Venturi Effect enhanced, strong ridge top winds.  The high pressure system will bring fair weather for the weekend and the first part of next week.  Models hint at a potential storm for around midweek.