Still Crusty Ogden Bench

Quick report

Weather

stormy

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes, mellowSlopes, sunnySlopes

Stayed Away

convexSlopes

Snow Conditions

powder, crusty

12cm of new snow on top of a crust. The crust can’t fully support the weight of a skier nor snowboarder at some area. Makes the decent more harduous. We watched an avalanche on skier’s right coming from the overhead cliffs down a really steep shout (natural trigerred from probably corniche and/or new snow from last night and this morning). Skiing trough the sparse trees at the bottom of the slope is pretty amazing. Still can feel the crust but snow pack is deep enough to be able to ski whithout thinking of bottom hazards. Signs of an old avalanche size 2.5 is in the pictures. We can clearly see the crown of it and it was triggered from the very top of skiers right. Debris are left at the middle of the way (bottom plateau)

Snowpack

Depth

380

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

SE

Test Fracture

unevenBreak

Test Initiation

moderate

Site Elevation Band

tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Avalanche

Trigger Type

natural

Avalanche Size

1

Start Zone Aspect

NE

Avalanche Character

corniceOnly, stormSlab

Number Of Avalanches

2-5

Avalanche Observation

12hrsAgo

Start Zone Elevation Band

alp

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2025-04-08T16:30:00.000Z