Through a generous donation by Backcountry.com to our partners the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center we will continue forecasting through the Easter weekend. Today is the last advisory for the season, but with significantly more than normal snow in the mountains this spring, avalanche threats will likely linger for a while....

This beautiful Easter morning there's a Level 1 or Low danger, and mostly stable snow conditions exist on the majority of slopes in the backcountry. There are also some areas with a Level 2 or Moderate danger, and you'll find heightened conditions in drifted terrain with recent deposits of fresh snow. Triggered shallow wind slab avalanches and large cornice falls are possible at upper elevations. Seasonal midday warming may cause a Level 2 danger, and heightened conditions could develop on steep slopes at any elevation with saturated snow that become softened by seasonal midday warmth... Use normal caution, continue to follow safe travel protocols, and evaluate the snow and terrain carefully.

. Happy Easter....You might need crampons and an ice axe for some early morning mountain ascents after another pretty good refreeze overnight. Folks found nice shallow and smooth powder riding conditions at upper elevations in the Central Bear River Range yesterday. At lower elevations and in most other areas, the snow is supportable and well refrozen in the morning, and the surface is nicely softening up with daytime warming. The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 24 degrees this morning and an inch of new snow overnight. There's 139 inches of total snow at the station, with 173% of average water content for the date..

We've had reports of several more unintentionally triggered avalanches in the Central Wasatch Range on Friday. There were a number of close calls during the week week, with a couple people reportedly caught and carried by wind slab avalanches that they triggered, and at least one injury..

Locally; an observer reports seeing evidence of several shallow rider triggered wind slabs from yesterday and Friday and a few natural wind slab avalanches from the Thursday storm in the Central Bear River Range. The fresh wind slabs involving drifted snow from 4/21were less than a foot deep (4 to 8 inches) and did not run all that far... Several large glide cracks have appeared across the zone with last week's warm temperatures...

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Cool and moist weather under a continued westerly zonal flow should continue well into next week. Expect increasing clouds this afternoon after a bit of sunshine this morning. Easterly winds will shift around from the west this afternoon and snow showers and some thunder are possible. Expect high temperatures around freezing.. There is a good chance of some snow tomorrow and again on Tuesday, but accumulations will be rather insignificant. We may see a warming trend later in the week, with highs near 40 forecast for Thursday.

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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.