We are excited to offer our first Backcountry 101: Introduction to Avalanches course in Southern Utah. Join us Feb 21-22 in Cedar City.
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILSCurrent Conditions: Saturday was a beautiful day in the mountains and many folks got out to enjoy it. Riding conditions are decent and more than decent in favored locations. With warm temperatures and sun, southerly facing slopes became damp as did all aspects at lower elevations.
Mountain Weather: Temperatures will again be mild in the mountains today with fairly light wind. It will cloud up today as a quick hitting storm clips our zone tonight bringing 3 to 5 inches of snow. Northwest wind will increase during the storm. It'll get windy but not anything out of the ordinary for a storm. Temperatures will be in the low 20s. The storm moves out Monday and we'll see clouds for Tuesday and another quick hitting storm on Wednesday which doesn't look like it'll bring much snow.
There was one avalanche reported on Saturday from the South Fork of Lake Creek. This avalanche most likely occurred during the last windy period a few days back. The small amount of snow on top of the debris gives is the indicator. This is one of the usual suspects and it's not uncommon for this slope to avalanche during windy periods as it gets loaded up with wind drifted snow. Today it's unlikely that something like this would release.
