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Forecast for the Salt Lake Area Mountains

Paige Pagnucco
Issued by Paige Pagnucco on
Saturday morning, October 19, 2024
The Provo area mountains were the big winners of the recent storm. They picked up 8-12" of snow and about 2" of snow water equivalent!
Here are a few natural avalanches from 10/18 and 10/19.
Please be mindful of any steep slope that holds snow - if there's enough snow to ride, there's enough to slide.
It looks like nice weather will return, so hopefully, this early-season snow will melt off.
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  • Regular avalanche forecasts with avalanche danger ratings have ended. We will continue to post all observations so please keep submitting them.
  • Learn what to watch for during spring avalanche conditions when the snow becomes wet with this video from the UAC.
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  • Some ski areas are closed and each has a different uphill travel policy. Remember that areas open to uphill travel are no longer doing any avalanche mitigation work and must be treated as backcountry terrain
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