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Despite shallow early season snow cover, heightened avalanche conditions exist in the backcountry. You could trigger avalanches and there is a level 2 or Moderate danger on steep drifted slopes.. Pockets with a higher level 3 danger remain on steep north facing slopes at upper elevations where very dangerous triggered persistent slab avalanches are still quite possible. The consequence of being caught in an early season avalanche is greatly increased by the shallowly buried and exposed rocks you could be raked over... You'll find safer conditions in sheltered terrain at lower elevations, on slopes without weak early season base layers, and on lower angled slopes. Evaluate the snow and terrain carefully, especially in drifted upper elevation and rocky terrain....

Don't expect a powder day in the mountains today because strong gusty winds and periods of sun and warmth have done a number on the snow surface... Last nights drop in temperature must have solidified the saturated surface at lower and mid elevations, and you'll find a wide variety of wind effects in most other areas. Yesterday's winds really got down into the terrain, scouring and drifting snow even in normally sheltered and lower elevation areas...

The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 13 degrees this morning. There's 2 new inches of snow containing 3/10ths of an inch of water and 32 inches of total snow on the ground.. It's 9 degrees at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, with northwest wind this morning averaging around 15mph.

There is some question as to the trigger of a good sized hard slab avalanche just outside the boundary of the Brighten Ski Area yesterday... The two-foot-deep avalanche ran on a layer of sugary facets near the ground...... No new avalanches were reported recently in the Logan Area...

The strong high pressure on our doorstep will do nothing but bad to our shallow, already weak early season snowpack. Unfortunately, widespread development of sugary persistent weak layers is a likely outcome.

It'll be mostly sunny today in the mountains, with a light northwest wind and forecast temperatures climbing to around 31 degrees. A strong ridge of high pressure will set up over the area for the weekend. A brush-by storm is expected to bring a little more snow to the mountains of far northern Utah late Monday, but high pressure will control the weather pattern well into next week and potentially beyond.....

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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.