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On Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10am to noon, the UAC in Logan and USU Outdoor Programs will be hosting a FREE beacon clinic at Beaver Mountain base area.
We'll go over the basics of maintenance as well as using a beacon to find a buried avalanche victim.
Dry conditions will continue through the middle of the week, with upper elevation daytime temperatures rising into the mid thirties and dropping into the teens at night for the next few days. Later in the week, the flow aloft veers from the northwest, breaking down the valley inversions and opening the door for the passage of a couple weather systems within a weak trough of low pressure. There is a chance of some snow showers on Thursday, and perhaps even a little accumulation Friday at upper elevations in the Bear River Range.
Currently, hitting rocks or other shallowly buried obstacles presents a significant hazard in the backcountry.
Most slopes have less than about 2' of total snow, and a steep temperature gradient is turning the shallow snow into loose sugary or faceted grains. In many places, the weak snow is easy to punch through to the rocks below.
Beware of very shallow early season snow conditions in the backcountry. The shallow snow is becoming weak and sugary or faceted, especially around rocks and down trees. After all the sun and wind this week, the snow surface is variable and inconsistent especially at upper elevations.
Saturday, a skier skinning up "Goal Post" avalanche path in Logan Dry Canyon triggered extensive and deep shooting cracks in the starting zone. "cracks to the ground shooting hundreds of feet in multiple directions" A stiff drift formed on well developed facets in this classic north facing deposition area, downwind from a large open lower angled fetch. Where it cracked, the slope was not very steep and the slab did not extend very far down into the avalanche path.
Shooting cracks like these are a red flag indicating unstable snow.
