Getting up and down Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons will continue to be a challenge this week due to unprecedented avalanche danger.
The heating of the sun on the snow is preventing travel during the middle of the day. According to the Utah Department of Transportation, avalanche crews have never seen anything like the dangerous wet avalanche activity underway this week.
A wet avalanche covered state Route 210 Monday morning in the White Pine chutes area of Little Cottonwood Canyon. An avalanche forecaster with the Utah Avalanche Center said that as the heating of the day warms the snowpack, individual grains of snow melt away from each other. They lose strength as they loosen from each other and the snowpack becomes unstable and slides. That's what causes a wet slide.
"That's when the sun really heats up, and we have the increased chance of these what we're calling wet avalanches," Gleason said.
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