Clint Jones was also on the Mayday lift when the slide broke loose. It didn't look like that much, but you could tell it had some power behind it. Two of those occurred in Utah last Tuesday in similar snow conditions to what exist locally. Over the weekend, local hills and mountainsides were reported to have very high avalanche danger. That danger is subsiding slightly at higher elevations as the snowpack settles, according to the Sun Valley Avalanche Center's daily avalanche report.
Lower elevations are still extremely dangerous.
Though cloudy, the weather is not expected to dump considerable amounts of snow on the Wood River Valley in the coming days. The snowpack should continue to settle and stabilize. Express Publishing Inc. All Rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Express Publishing Inc. is prohibited.