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Forecast for the Logan Area Mountains

Toby Weed
Issued by Toby Weed on
Friday morning, December 4, 2020
There is LOW danger in the backcountry and avalanches are unlikely. Beware of very shallow, early season snow conditions.
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Weather and Snow
Dry conditions will continue through the weekend and next week, with upper elevation daytime temperatures rising into the mid thirties and dropping into the teens at night for the next few days. There is a faint hint of some change in the weather in the long term forecast, so keep your spirits up.
Currently, hitting rocks or other shallowly buried obstacles presents a significant hazard in the backcountry. You have to be very careful. Keep your speed down. Stick to smooth grassy slopes and low angled terrain. Most slopes have less than about 2' of total snow, and a steep temperature gradient is turning the shallow snow into loose sugary or faceted grains. In many places, the weak snow is easy to punch through to the rocks below. Once buried later in the season, the loose sugary snow will become a nasty persistent weak layer at the base of the snowpack on many slopes.
Beware of very shallow early season snow conditions in the backcountry. The shallow snow is becoming weak and sugary or faceted, especially around rocks and down trees.
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Potential for triggering small slabs of stiff drifted snow may be found on extreme or very steep upper elevation slopes, and people could trigger avalanches.
  • Even a small avalanche could be very dangerous due to shallow early season snow conditions. You do not want to get caught and carried over rocks or strained through bushes and stumps, so it's best to avoid travel on all steep drifted slopes.
Additional Information
It’s a good idea to tone it down in the early season because it’s pretty easy to get hurt in shallow snow, and it’s absolutely the worst time to do so because you could ruin your whole season.
Everybody should make time to examine and practice with your avalanche rescue equipment, and convince your backcountry partners to practice with you.
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I will update this advisory by around 7:30 tomorrow morning.
This forecast is from the USDA Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. The forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
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