Please join the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center in Logan for our annual "Pray for Snow" Fundraiser and Party on Wednesday November 30th at the Italian Place in downtown Logan. The event will feature a silent auction, raffle, great food, music, and a special presentation by Bruce Tremper, the Director of the Utah Avalanche Center.Please call 757-2794 for more info.

Heightened avalanche conditions exist in the backcountry, and there is a level 2 or Moderate danger on drifted upper elevation and wind exposed slopes.. There are also pockets with a higher level 3 danger on steep north facing slopes at upper elevations where dangerous triggered persistent slab avalanches are still probable. The danger of going for a ride in an avalanche in the early season is greatly increased by the shallowly buried and exposed rocks you could be swept over or into. Evaluate the snow and terrain carefully, especially in upper elevation rocky terrain....

You can find pretty good powder riding conditions if you stick to upper elevation roadways and smooth meadows. The unconsolidated snowpack above 8000' in elevation ranges from a bit under 3' to around 4 feet deep.. The snow berm, which prevents driving, is now in place at the bottom of Tony Grove Road, and with the exception of the bottom mile, the road is in fine smooth shape for riding...

The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 31 degrees this morning with 33 inches of total snow on the ground.. We noted about 3 inches of fresh drifted snow in the area yesterday. It's only 11 degrees at the Hwy 89 Summit weather station with a light east-northeast wind this morning. Southwest winds picked up yesterday, drifting a fair amount of snow in exposed terrain.

We saw evidence of some fresh but somewhat minor wind slab and cornice fall avalanching off the Chicken Hill ridgeline yesterday.... No triggered or other avalanches have been reported recently in the Logan Area...

It will be mostly sunny in the mountains today, with a continuing southwesterly breeze and a forecast high temperature of around 41 degrees. Temperatures will remain colder at lower elevation due to a substantial temperature inversion. Southwest winds will increase again overnight, and we'll see increasing clouds on Thanksgiving Day with continued southwest winds and a twenty percent chance of some snow... Snowfall from a fast moving cold front should begin late Thursday night and continue into Friday, with 3 to 5 inches of accumulation forecast... The high pressure system will redevelop over the weekend and likely last well into next week....

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I will update this advisory by around 7:30 in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.....

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.