There is a Level 2 or Moderate danger in the backcountry. Heightened avalanche conditions exist, and you could trigger fresh or stiffer wind slabs and/or cornice falls in terrain exposed to wind drifting.. Dangerous triggered deep slab avalanches are possible in areas with a poor snow structure and/or a shallower slab layer, and could be triggered by overrunning snow from wind slabs or cornice fall. The danger of wet avalanches involving the fresh snow could rise with midday warming, especially if powerful spring sunshine breaks through the cloud cover. Continue to use safe travel protocols and evaluate the snow and terrain carefully.

You'll find fairly deep, somewhat heavy and slow powder conditions in the backcountry today. Lower elevations picked up a bit less but heavier snow The Bear River Range received a few more inches of new snow yesterday and overnight, and west and northwest winds picked up for several hours last night. The Hwy89 Logan Summit wind sensor recorded 20mph hourly average wind speeds with gusts up around 30mph. The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 24 degrees this morning, and several inches of somewhat heavy new snow with 7/10ths of an inch of water in the last 24 hrs. There's now 125 inches of total snow on the ground and the station sits at 145% of normal water content for the date.

There was a fairly widespread natural cycle involving new snow and shallow wind slab avalanches in the Logan Zone, but so far no deep slab releases were observed in the area since last week....A large and scary natural deep slab was reported from the Ogden Area backcountry near Powder Mountain on Monday... A new wind slab avalanche overran a slope with a deeply buried weak layer, which failed a bit above the mid January rain-crust. The avalanche was reported to be 4+' deep, around 500' wide, and it ran around 2500 vrt'. A skier remote triggered a scary and broad hard slab avalanche in the far western Uinta Range yesterday, the second such event this week in that area.....

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A westerly flow aloft is keeping Pacific moisture streaming into the region and we should see mostly cloudy conditions again today.... Mountain high temperatures should remain in the mid twenties, and a sustained moderate southwest wind will continue to drift snow in exposed terrain. Temperatures and winds will remain steady overnight tonight with around 24 degrees and west southwest winds in the teens. It'll warm up drastically in the mountains tomorrow with mostly sunny conditions forecast, so you should expect an increase in wet avalanche danger, especially on sunny slopes......

We are offering a free avalanche awareness talk for riders on Thursday, March 24 at 6:00 at Renegade Sports in Nibley. This will be followed by a ride into avalanche terrain (field session) on Saturday, March 26.....

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