We have very weak faceted snow (persistent weak layer) now buried roughly 20-30 inches deep, and this layer is actively producing avalanches (see recent activity). With more snow and an increase in the wind, this problem is only getting more dangerous.

This weak layer is currently overloaded by heavy snowfall, and I expect the avalanches to gain significant volume today. Meaning the avalanches will be getting deeper, wider, and more dangerous and could easily produce both natural and human-triggered avalanches 1-3 feet deep and several hundred feet wide. Avalanches can be remotely triggered today (meaning from a distance).

These are tree snapping, bone-crushing avalanches that should not be messed with. I would strongly encourage sticking to slopes less than 30° in steepness with nothing steep above or adjacent to you. Traveling in avalanche terrain is NOT recommended.

I've talked with multiple snow safety directors this morning, and many of them report the snow being upside down. Even Brad Mackhoff from Cardiff Fork gave me a call in his snowblower reporting it snowing very hard and the snow being upside down. Mackhoff, who has been in the Wasatch since 1957, said, " it's dangerous out there today."

The simple fact is the new snow will be on all aspects and elevations, and I would expect it to be reactive to the weight of humans today. Avalanches that fail within the new snow will likely be 12-24 inches deep and fail as a soft slab avalanche.

The north-westerly winds did pick up overnight and are blowing 10-20 mph gusting into the 20's and 30's across the upper elevations this morning and there is plenty of new snow to blow around.