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There is a Level 2 or Moderate danger at upper elevations in the backcountry, and heightened avalanche conditions exist on slopes with significant deposits of drifted fresh snow. Cold temperatures are helping to diminish the wet avalanche threat, and there is a Level 1 or Low danger at lower elevations, in more sheltered areas, and on the majority of slopes in the zone... Use normal caution, continue to follow safe travel protocols, and evaluate the snow and terrain carefully, especially in exposed upper elevation terrain....

We'll find a pleasant wintry day in the mountains; chilly, only partly sunny, and still a bit breezy. Cold temperatures are good this time of year, and the wet lower and mid elevation snow will now be solidly refrozen. We should find nice smooth and supportable dust-on-crust down low and shallow spring powder up higher. Mountain temperatures dropped significantly overnight, and clearing skies likely "dried out" yesterday's moist snow. Sustained and gusty west winds overnight scoured windward slopes, built cornices, and drifted snow into upper elevation starting zones. Westerly winds will not diminish much today, and sub-zero wind chills are forecast. The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 15 degrees this morning and 6 inches of new snow with 8/10ths of an inch of water in the last 24 hrs. There's 144 inches of total snow at the station, with 171% of average water content for the date..

We've had reports of several unintentionally triggered avalanches in the Central Wasatch Range in the past couple days, with a couple people reportedly caught and carried by fresh wind slab avalanches, and at least one injury.. Locally, a rider remote triggered a good sized wet slide near White Pine Lake last weekend, and on Monday afternoon we easily triggered several loose wet avalanches at mid-elevation that entrained significant piles of fresh wet snow, ran pretty far, and packed a destructive punch.... I've recently noticed numerous fairly new glide cracks across the zone. Between the thunder storms and from a distance yesterday, I thought I could see evidence of a large fresh glide or wet slab avalanche in Pine Canyon in the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness above the town of Wellsville...

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. Cool and moist weather under a continued westerly zonal flow should continue through the weekend and well into next week. Expect some clouds and a fair amount of sunshine today, with continuing west winds and high temperatures in the 20s.. There is a good chance of some snow tomorrow and again on Sunday, but accumulations will be insignificant. Mountain temperatures are supposed to remain below freezing over the weekend and drop into the teens at night.

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