There is a Level 1 or Low danger on most slopes in the region, and avalanches are generally unlikely. However, heightened avalanche conditions exist on some steep drifted slopes at upper elevations and on canyon walls. In these areas there is a level 2 or Moderate danger and you might trigger wind slab avalanches. Pockets of level 2 and heightened avalanche conditions also remain on isolated northerly facing slopes at the highest elevations where you might trigger dangerous avalanches failing on weak basal snow near the ground. You should continue to evaluate the snow and terrain carefully, especially in drifted upper elevation terrain....

The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 4 new inches of light snow since yesterday, containing 2/10ths of an inch of water. It's negative 1 degree this morning, and there is 33 inches of total snow on the ground.. It's a chilly -3 degrees at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, and I'm still reading light easterly winds this morning... East winds picked up again yesterday, with hourly averages around 30 mph for several hours... Expect very cold air temperatures and extreme (well subzero) wind-chills despite clear and sunny conditions in the mountains today.

No new avalanches were reported from over the weekend.. We are monitoring the current shallow snowpack as high pressure conditions and cold air temperatures are causing it to weaken significantly. Since the snow is shallow in many areas, it is subjected to an extreme temperature gradient when the air temperature is cold. A temperature gradient drives sublimation of water vapor through the snowpack, which transforms the snow crystals into weak sugary non-cohesive grains called facets. We need snow, but unfortunately when we get a significant dump we'll be cursed by dangerous persistent weak layers that are forming now....

You'll find clear and sunny, but very cold conditions in the mountains today. High temperatures at 8000' are forecast to stay in the single digits, and a continuing easterly breeze will keep wind chill factors well below zero in exposed terrain.... Keep an eye on your own and your partners' exposed skin, monitoring for potential frostbite... Expect to see gradual warming this week under well established high pressure conditions.... A weak cold front is forecast to swing through the region on around Thursday, but at this point it doesn't look like it'll produce much snow before the high pressure builds back into the area...

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