The overall danger in the backcountry is CONSIDERABLE (3), which means that dangerous and potentially deadly avalanche conditions linger on many slopes in the region. You could trigger a nasty hard slab avalanche 3 to 6 feet deep, or deeper, and potentially quite wide on slopes with preexisting weak snow that haven't recently avalanched. Any triggered deep slab avalanche is likely to be huge, long running and very dangerous. Triggered wind slab avalanches are also probable on drifted slopes steeper than about 35 degrees. You can find safer conditions at lower elevations, in sheltered lower angled terrain, and on slopes that recently and completely slid.

Careful snowpack evaluation, cautious route-finding and conservative decision-making are essential for safe backcountry travel travel today. I plan to avoid and stay out from under steep slopes and avalanche paths that haven't recently avalanched.

You can find nice fast powder, and snow conditions are good even on low angled slopes. Some people have been able to find fairly safe situations in the partly filled-in bed surfaces of recent large avalanches. The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports a couple inches of accumulation in the last 48 hours and with 71" of total snow on the ground, the station is reporting 64% of average water for the date. The Campbell Scientific--Logan Peak wind sensor recorded increasing southwest winds overnight, now averaging 25 mph. Its 17 degrees at 9700'

It's been four days since our last cycle of large natural hard slab avalanches and almost a week since a handful of close-calls with very big and dangerous rider triggered hard slab avalanches last weekend up in the Tony Grove and Providence Canyon Areas... The recent avalanches I've been looking at have been 4 to 6 feet deep and a few hundred feet wide or more.

Here's an updated local backcountry avalanche list:

Today and tonight's storm may again favor the north, with currently 4 to 8 inches of accumulation forecast by tomorrow morning...Snowfall, under a southwest flow, should begin later this morning and taper off in our area around tomorrow morning. Expect continued moist weather but little accumulation through the weekend as the energy and moisture from the flow move to our south.....

I will be issuing morning avalanche advisories for the Logan area on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

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I will update this forecast Saturday morning. Thanks for checking in....