There is a MODERATE danger in the backcountry, and you could trigger dangerous stiff or hard wind slab avalanches on some very steep, recently or previously drifted slopes. The danger is greatest on exposed upper elevation slopes facing the eastern half of the compass. Dangerous avalanche conditions may linger on isolated steep slopes with persistent weak layers and significant deposits of wind-drifted snow.

Warming and sunshine in the next few days will cause an increasing danger of wet avalanches. Wet avalanches will become likely on steep slopes when fresh surface snow is initially saturated . Continue to avoid and stay out from under huge and often deceitful ridge-top cornices, which were built out again significantly in the past couple days and will sag and buckle in the inevitable warming temperatures to come...Evaluate the snow and terrain carefully and use good travel habits....

Looks like we missed out on most of the snow from this storm, with no snow reported at the Tony Grove Snotel overnight...The station reports a snow total of 108 inches containing 105% of average water content for the date. Looks like we'll still be playing around in the stiffer snow from Wednesday, and if you want deep powder you need to head down to the Central Wasatch Range, where snow safety crews are reporting around 2 feet of new snow in the last 24 hours....If you stay in the Cache, Beaver Mountain will be open today as a special final encore bonus for season pass holders and local riders...Thank you Marge and Ted.

The wind sensor at the Campbell Scientific weather station at 9700' on Logan Peak reports a 10 mph north wind this morning, and it's 14 degrees. The remote sensors up at Beaver Mountain show me an inch of new snow and it's currently16 degrees.

A few backcountry skiers triggered wind slab avalanches consisting of new snow yesterday in the Central Wasatch Range and one skier took a ride when a steep slope that had been previously ski cut released above him. (Salt Lake Area Advisory)

On Wednesday, I observed several good sized natural wind slab avalanches in the Wellsville Range, which occurred overnight on March 31st. I went up and looked at a couple that were triggered by very large cornice falls. These stepped down into persistent buried weak layers and ran well over 2000 vertical feet down onto Maple Bench. (4-1-09 PHOTOS)

Looks like we got skunked, with more accumulation on the valley floor last night than up at Tony Grove. It should stay cloudy and fairly cold today, with periods of snow likely, but not much accumulation forecast. We'll be lucky to see two or three inches before a high pressure noses into the region overnight. Expect clearing and warming conditions and a resumption of the melt early next week, with Tuesday looking especially mild...The next Pacific storm will impact the region on around Tuesday night....

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This will be the last regularly updated advisory of the season, and I will be leaving town for several days for spring break with the family. I will, however, resume intermittent and weekend advisories through the rest of April..... I will update this advisory by about 7:30 on Friday morning...

This advisory is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.