Avalanche Advisory
Advisory: Skyline Area Mountains Issued by Brett Kobernik for Tuesday - February 6, 2018 - 5:48am
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The majority of the terrain along the Skyline still has a LOW avalanche danger. There is a MODERATE danger on slopes steeper than 35˚ and higher than 9500' that face northwest through east especially where fresh drifts have formed. You can travel safely in most of the terrain today but if you start looking for trouble on steep upper elevation slopes, there's a slight chance you might find it.
current conditions

The small storm that moved through last night gave us 2 to 4 inches of snow along the Manti Skyline. West northwest wind has been in the moderate speed range along the ridges. This combination of snow and wind probably isn't enough to overload the buried weak snow near the ground and cause a widespread avalanche cycle. It might be enough to produce some isolated human triggered avalanches though. Likely spots are those upper elevation steep slopes that face northwest through east. This terrain is holding the most new wind drifted snow and also holds the weakest buried faceted sugar snow near the ground.
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