Utah Avalanche Center

Mostly sunny. High and dry.

A couple inches from overnight on 50 cm of very solid, moist snow

evidence of significant rain overnight. Turned the nice powder into melter butter!

It was difficult to find both a slab and weak layer. This was a wind loaded spot and had some weak snow at the ground. Other places lacked a slab but had weaker snow near the ground. I suspect you could still trigger an avalanche in a few places. Certainly you could other places at slightly higher elevation that had more early season snow, colder temperatures and more wind with the most recent storm.

Aspects range from roughly 320 deg to 40 deg. This avalanche broke over 2000 feet wide. It failed on a layer of small facets at 55 cm.