You’ll find areas of soggy Considerable in the mid to low elevation shady slopes. There’s no secret here: watch how the snow reacts to your board(s) or ride, and plan your uptracks and exits accordingly to avoid pushing the saturating glop and yourself into a terrain trap or through the trees. This debris sets up like concrete – there’ll be no miraculous self-extrication this go-around.

Wet, warm and windy. The precipitation seemed hit or miss, with the Provo mountains picking up what looks to be almost a third of an inch of rain up to about 8000’, the Ogden mountains perhaps a third to a half inch of rain, and the Cottonwoods and Park City areas perhaps a tenth of an inch or so. Not that it rained on our parade…..the snow conditions have been deteriorating since Saturday. It is instructive that guide and observer Dan Griffith, who loves skiing as much as anyone, finally had some unprintable things to say about the riding conditions. At least the winds have picked up from the southwest, blowing 20-25mph with the more exposed anemometers spinning at 35-40mph with gusts to 60. Temps are in the low 30’s at 8000’.

Warm temperatures and a high rain/snow line provided a shock to the system of the shady low to mid elevation snow, producing at least one sizeable debris pile. Even a few diehards had to duck to avoid the monster pinwheels they initiated.

Mild, spotty west to southwest flow. It’s partly cloudy to mostly cloudy and we may squeeze an inch or three at the higher elevations, particularly north of I-80. The rain/snow line should linger at 8000’ and the winds are expected to blow 20-25mph with 11,000’ speeds of 30-35mph. We stay in this pattern for the remainder of the week, with lowering snow levels on Friday/Friday night. Taxes, anyone?

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