March 06th, 20223/6/2022 Kind of a strange storm last night. I got 14 inches at my house at the mouth of Parleys Canyon, Alta got 7, about the same in BCC. Decided to go to Millcreek Canyon and headed up the Bowman Trail. There was about a foot of snow in the parking lot at 5600ft. The new snow was light density and there wasn’t much wind in the terrain covered, which means the avalanche hazard wasn’t heightened all that much. No slab not much added weight and the new snow bonding well to the old damp bed surface. You might be able to trigger a slide if you could find a wind loaded pocket in steep terrain resting on old facets, but still not seeing enough of a load to cause harmful avalanches. If the wind does pick up and transport snow, all bets are off. But for the time being things seem mostly stable. If the strong March sun comes out tomorrow south facing is going to be a problem with light density snow resting on a hard and slick bed surface. Not really sure what’s going on up higher, only made it to 9000ft today but from what I gather there is way less snow up high.
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