Utah Avalanche Center

Snow moistened by rain on 2/4. Windy, but not transport at mid elevations, with surface snow wet and crusted over.

Snow showers. Rime crusts holding all but new snow in place, preventing much drifting.

SE facing slope but shaded by mature trees for part of the day. Surprised to see facets this week on a SE facing slope but I think it was a function of the shade from the big trees.

Obvious layers of weak facets. I did a cross slope PST when my ECT did not break at all. It was a steep slope, so this does not work as well as it would on a flatter slope or doing a proper PST....but it did propagate across and I suspect a regular PST would have propagated to the end after a 30-40 cm cut. Just speculation though.