The Utah Avalanche Center in Logan and Renegade Sports are teaming up to offer a FREE Avalanche Beacon Training Clinic on Tuesday, February 23rd from 5-7pm at Renegade Sports in Nibley. The clinic is open to everyone who wants to learn how to properly use an avalanche rescue beacon. Bring a friend or your family or your scout troop! It is an open house so come when you can. Remember, it's FREE and what you learn may save your life or the life of someone you know. For more info call 755-7111 or 757-2794.

There's a MODERATE (2) avalanche danger, and dangerous triggered avalanches are possible on numerous slopes steeper than about 35 degrees in the backcountry around Logan. Pockets with a CONSIDERABLE (3) danger persist in steep terrain at upper and mid elevations, and you will likely trigger a dangerous avalanche if you venture onto the wrong steep slope. Triggered persistent slab avalanches 1 to 2 feet deep and 50 to 100 feet wide are still likely in some areas, and very dangerous and much bigger deep slab avalanches are still possible.

Careful snowpack evaluation, cautious route-finding and conservative decision-making are essential for safe backcountry travel.

You can find nice soft snow conditions on shady slopes and crusts of varying thickness in the sun. With about an inch of snow in the past 24 hours, there's now 75" of total snow on the ground at the Tony Grove Snotel containing 68% of average water for the date. Its 2 degrees at the 9700' Campbell Scientific--Logan Peak weather station and a north-northeast wind is currently averaging 10 mph.

Yesterday was quite active in the Wasatch Range backcountry, with no less than 12 more human triggered avalanches involving around a foot of recently accumulated snow failing on a weak layer made up of feathery 2 dimensional frost crystals or small sugary grains, which is widespread across the region.

Locally; numerous avalanches were reported across the forecast zone in the last week..By far the vast majority of these involved the newest snow picked up since a nice layer of surface hoar was covered and preserved by light snow on Wednesday 2-10-10. A few very large natural deep slab avalanches became visible with brief clearing on upper elevation west facing slopes in the Mount Naomi Wilderness. A rider triggered a good sized soft slab off Cornice ridge over the weekend. Appears he was able to stay in the saddle and ride out of the avalanche. It was close to 2 feet deep and around 80 feet wide on a north facing slope at around 9400' in elevation.

Here's an updated local backcountry avalanche list:

Expect fair but chilly weather to continue today through tomorrow... Mountain temperatures should remain below 20 degrees in the shade today and drop back down into the single digits tonight... Gradually increasing southwest winds tomorrow will usher in warmer temperatures... Clouds should begin to build Tuesday night ahead of our next chance for a bit of snow on Wednesday. Models continue to give us a fair amount of moisture with this despite weakening and splitting dynamics.... Another slightly stronger storm is possible next weekend...

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 Wednesday morning. Thanks for checking in....