Utah Avalanche Center

Winds increased two hours later out of the south and began to transport snow. It also starting snowing hard as the next wave of the storm blew in. The new snow was cracking at the interface with the crust.

periods of heavy snowfall...many instances of collapsing and shooting cracks up to 100'

Mostly cloudy. The storm moved in at 1:15 PM with strong winds and heavy precipitation rates.

Focus on buried sun crust. Hard to find a representative spot due to great variation in crust with slope angle and aspect changes.

Focus was on buried sun crust. Hard to find a representative spot - lots of variation with aspect and slope angle.

Widespread collapsing where the facets at the ground exist. Moving to SE aspects the existence of facets that were collapsing was more varied. Closer to 10k and ESE the facets were easy to find and were collapsing with greater frequency.

From 8k and up we experienced many collapses of varying sizes. The snowpack varied very little on E and SE aspects. The main difference was the existence of facets at the ground.