The Provo mountains have an overall LOW danger.

The fourth day of spring -

Japanese cherry blossoms

can fend for themselves.

Provo saw just an inch or two with settlement on the total snow stake. Temps are in the teens and the stronger northwesterly winds have backed down into the light to moderate category. Winds are light and temps are in the 20's.

Not enough new snow to affect the avalanche conditions in the Provo areas.

For the Central and Northern Wasatch:

Absent a weak snow surface or mid-pack issues, activity was relegated to loose snow sluffs and garden variety wind-driven soft slabs up to 8-12” deep. The widest reported to be 70’ wide. These were/are all manageable issues with instant gratification triggering at your skis or ride for experienced individuals. Gustier northwesterly winds drove snow at times up canyon and up into the starting and mid-starting zones, explaining the whales that you’ll see in some of the higher northerly terrain.

Interesting to note the continued streams of free running water down the side of the canyon road in the afternoon – evidence perhaps of continued melting and percolation beneath the return of winter…

We’ll have some clearing this morning as we sit between the departing storm and the next, weaker system arriving on the northwest flow this afternoon. A few inches of snow will accompany this disturbance, though it’ll look like an appetizer for Wednesday afternoon into Thursday’s strong Pacific storm. Looks in some ways similar to this last one, with 12-18” expected for favored areas.

Wasatch Powderbird Guides did not fly yesterday, and will have one ship in the Northern Powder circuit and Mill Creek. Check their operations planning page is here.

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Beacon training parks are up and running! There is one at Snowbasin, one on the Park City side at the top of Canyon’s gondola toward the Tombstone lift, one in Little Cottonwood near the Snowbird parking structure on the bypass road, and in Big Cottonwood a training park is at the west end of Solitude's lower parking lot.

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I will update this advisory by 7:30 tomorrow morning.