There's a level 2 or Moderate danger on drifted upper elevation slopes in the backcountry. Heightened avalanche conditions exist in exposed terrain, and you could trigger wind slab avalanches on steep slopes with significant recent deposits of freshly drifted snow. You'll still probably be able to find fairly stable snow and a level 1 danger in sheltered terrain and in most lower elevation areas. Evaluate the snow and terrain carefully, especially on upper elevation drifted slopes.

Expect the overall danger to continue its gradual rise over the weekend, with an assortment of weak layers still near today's snow surface and developing snowfall and continuing winds in the forecast...

Mountain temperatures chilled a bit overnight, and it's 25 degrees up at the Tony Grove Snotel at 8400'. The station reports a couple inches of new snow containing 4/10ths of an inch of water in the last 24 hours. I'm reading 88 inches of total snow on the ground, containing 142% of normal water content for the date. The Campbell Scientific Logan Peak weather station at 9700' reports a 18 degrees this morning and the wind sensor appears rimed again. The Logan Summit station reports intensifying and sustained northwest and west-northwest winds averaging in the upper thirties and gusting a bit over 50 mph this morning. You'll find variable snow conditions in the backcountry today, with a few soft and shallow recrystallized stashes left in sheltered shady mid elevation terrain... Sun-crusts and wind-jacked snow are widespread, and I've received reports of solid and glistening "blue" ice on the big east faces in the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness, where you will need crampons and axes if you want to venture.

We received reports of two people caught and carried by separate wind slab avalanches in the Central Wasatch Range Thursday... No recent avalanches have been reported in the Logan Area

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The first in a series of waves of storminess is passing through the zone this morning, with strong northwest winds and and a few inches of graupel and rimed snow reported. We'll see a bit more snow and continuing west and northwest winds, tapering off this afternoon. Another weak wave will affect the zone tomorrow, and a more significant and productive shot of storminess is set for Monday evening, with the passage of the cold front...

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