24 Hour Snow: 0" 72 Hour Snow: 6" Season Total Snow: 138" Depth at Gold Basin: 52"

High pressure builds over the region today with a gradual warming trend in store for the upcoming week. Look for sunny skies today, light to moderate northeast winds with occasional strong gusts along ridge tops, and high temperatures in the mid to upper 30's. Temperatures tonight drop into the low 20's. High temperatures tomorrow will be in the low to mid 40's.

The first week of April brought great conditions to the La Sals and people have been getting after it. All told, we picked up 18" of snow last week and the mountains look as white as they've been all season. A several hour period of strong northeast winds on Friday night affected the snow surface a little on upper elevation northerly aspects but yesterday, my partner Dave Garcia and I still found conditions up there to be more than acceptable. Sunshine and warm temperatures cooked the snow on all sun exposed slopes and they will be thoroughly crusted over this morning. It does look like we have a good melt/freeze cycle ahead and we should get some corn-like conditions in a few days.

People have been getting into all kinds of terrain without incident and it appears that the snowpack is mostly stable. There may still be a few errant wind slabs up high that could be sensitive to the weight of a skier or rider. Avoid smooth rounded pillows of wind drifted snow, especially in areas of consequential terrain. Layers of weak faceted snow still remain on northerly aspects but a strong, hard slab exists over top and triggering an avalanche down to these weak layers has become very unlikely. Nevertheless, whenever I travel in the mountains, I keep my avalanche glasses on. Travel with awareness and avoid thin rocky areas and obvious trigger points such as steep convexities and blind break-overs.

The snow surface up high has been slightly wind affected but the turning conditions are still pretty good.