It's 25°F this morning at the 8400' Tony Grove Snotel, and there is 71 inches of total snow containing 82% of normal SWE. East winds increased again overnight and are currently blowing 42 mph and gusting to around 60 mph at the CSI Logan Peak weather station. Its 17°F with a -5°F wind chill value at 9700' this morning. We're expecting a chance of snow showers again today, but mostly sunny skies, high temperatures at 8500' around 33°F, and steady and fairly strong northeast winds. It'll be a bit warmer tomorrow and mostly sunny, and winds from the west-northwest will be a bit lighter. Cool and unsettled weather will continue into next week, with snow showers possible tomorrow, but not much in the way of accumulation likely.
We found stable snow conditions and Low avalanche danger in Wood Camp Hollow yesterday.
A party of riders reports triggering a few shallow loose avalanches of dry snow or sluffs on steep slopes in the Northern Bear River Range. These were manageable, but they had to be aware and careful of the trees below.
Sluffs of fresh snow on a steep slope in the Northern Bear River Range. (Flygares, 3-12-2021)
-It's been nearly two weeks since any human triggered or natural avalanches failing on our nasty widespread buried persistent weak layer occurred.
-A very extensive natural avalanche cycle occurred in mid February, and evidence is still apparent across the zone including deep crown lines, large chunks and very long piles of avalanche debris.
