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Forecast for the Logan Area Mountains

Toby Weed
Issued by Toby Weed on
Tuesday morning, February 22, 2022
The snow is stable on most slopes, the avalanche danger is LOW, and avalanches are unlikely in the backcountry. Drifting from east winds today may form small wind slabs in unexpected or unusual places and could create areas with heightened avalanche conditions in some upper elevation terrain.
Use normal caution. Watch for and avoid (1) fresh deposits of wind drifted snow on steep upper elevation slopes, and (2) powder and loose recrystallized snow sluffing in very steep terrain.
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Special Announcements
  • The Utah Avalanche Center will be holding a BC 101 class in Logan on Feb 24-25. This class is great for those new to the backcountry or wanting to refresh their skills. Click here for details and registration.
  • Thanks to the generous support of our local resorts and Ski Utah, discount lift tickets are now available. Support the UAC while you ski at the resorts this season. Tickets are available HERE.
Weather and Snow
Another inch or so of snow accumulated overnight, and the split winter storm so far only deposited 3 to 5 inches on upper elevation slopes in the Bear River Range. The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 10°F this morning, and there is 66 inches of total snow at the site. Winds out of the southwest are blowing around 15 mph this morning at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, but they will veer from the east and increase a bit during the day today.
Forecast easterly winds will easily pick up the light new snow, and the drifting could create heightened avalanche conditions in unusual or unexpected areas at upper elevations. People might trigger small avalanches of wind drifted snow and/or loose avalanches entraining powder and faceted snow on steep upper elevation slopes. Otherwise, the snow is generally stable across the Logan Zone, and it's been well over a month since we've seen any significant avalanche activity.
  • Expect cloudy skies and cold temperatures in the mountains today. 8500' high temperatures will be around 12°F, and 15 mph east-southeast winds, with 30 mph gusts, will create wind chill values as low as -17°F.
  • It will be cloudy tonight, with temperatures around 3°F, and stronger east winds driving wind chill values down to around -25°F.
  • There is a chance of some snow flurries, it will be cloudy, and east winds will continue tomorrow, with high temperatures around 11°F.
  • Looks like the winds will shift back from the southwest on Thursday, and there is an increasing chance that a few inches of snow could accumulate in the Logan Zone on Thursday night.
Recent Avalanches
Other than a few sluffs or avalanches of loose snow in steep terrain, no avalanches were reported recently in the Logan Zone.
Check out recent observations and avalanche reports from across Utah HERE
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Avalanche Problem #1
Wind Drifted Snow
Type
Location
Likelihood
Size
Description
Although rather unlikely, people might trigger shallow soft slab avalanches of wind drifted snow in exposed upper elevation terrain. Today, the wind will shift, blow from the east and increase. The winds will easily pick up the fresh powder and drifting will create wind slabs in unusual, perhaps unexpected places. These and some older, harder drifts may be sensitive to human triggering.
  • Avoid drifted snow at upper elevations on the lee side of major ridges and in and around terrain features like sub-ridges, gullies, and cliff bands.
Avalanche Problem #2
Normal Caution
Type
Location
Likelihood
Size
Description
Loose avalanches (or sluffs) of powder and recrystallized or faceted surface snow are possible in sheltered terrain, on very steep and sustained slopes.
  • Manage loose avalanches by staying out of constricting terrain, like drainage gullies, and moving out of the fall line so you don't get caught by your own sluff.
  • Avoid being caught and pulled into terrain traps below you like trees, gullies, or benches.
Additional Information
  • Now is a great time to practice your avalanche rescue skills. Thanks to the generous support of Northstar, the Franklin Basin Beacon Training Park is up and running. The park is located directly west of the parking lot and is open for anyone to use. All you need is your beacon and probe. Please do not dig up the transmitters.
  • Always follow safe backcountry travel protocols. Go one person at a time in avalanche terrain, while the rest of your party watches from a safe area. (practice anytime while traveling on or under backcountry slopes steeper than 30°)
  • Check your avalanche rescue equipment, change your batteries, and practice often with your backcountry partners.
    Check slope angles, and to avoid avalanche terrain stay off of and out from under slopes steeper than 30° and adjacent slopes. Video Here
General Announcements
Special thank you to Polaris and Northstar...Video Here
Who's up for some free avalanche training? Get a refresher, become better prepared for an upcoming avalanche class, or just boost your skills. Go to https://learn.kbyg.org/ and scroll down to Step 2 for a series of interactive online avalanche courses produced by the UAC.
  • Check out all the upcoming education classes and clinics HERE.
  • Please submit your observations from the backcountry HERE.
This information does not apply to developed ski areas or highways where avalanche control is normally done. This forecast is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
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