Your best bet for soft snow riding will be in high, sheltered northerly facing terrain, with cooler recent temperatures in the Northern Bear River Range, near and north of the state line. You'll likely find nice, supportable spring-like "corn snow" on lower-angle sunny slopes, where saturated surface snow has now solidly refrozen and will soften during the day. Heightened avalanche conditions exist; people could trigger avalanches on exposed upper-elevation slopes facing northwest through southeast due to the incessant strong winds from the west. As the crusty snow softens in sunny terrain, wet avalanches of saturated surface snow may be possible.

The UAC Card Canyon weather station at 8700 feet reports 32°F and 60 inches of total snow. The Tony Grove Snotel, at 8400 feet, reports 35°F with 71 inches of total snow. At 9700 feet on Logan Peak, winds are blowing from the southwest around 30 mph, with overnight gusts above 50 mph. Strong winds continue to blow from the south-southwest on Paris Peak, at 9500 feet, blowing 30 to 43 mph at this hour, and it's 25°F.

Expect partly sunny skies today, with temperatures at 8500 feet climbing to around 40°F, and incessant strong winds blowing from the west-southwest, with gusts in the 50+ mph range. Clouds will increase tonight, temperatures will drop to around 31°F, and winds will continue to blow from the west. Tomorrow, expect partly sunny skies with warmer temperatures and winds continuing to blow from the west. High temperatures at 8500' will soar to around 43°F. As storm systems pass to the north this weekend, some light snow is likely in the Logan Zone, favoring the Northern Bear River Range. Temperatures in the mountains are expected to rise significantly next week, with 60°F readings possible at upper elevations...