Show snow covering 9 shows increase in park area recent storms in southern utah have more than doubled the amount of water in the snow fields of the Marka gunt plateau east of cedar city according to a report received from the zion national park ski patrol that has just returned from a sixty mile trip rip to cedar breaks where an average snow depth of inches L 9 containing inches of water was recorded these measurements ure ments show that the snow pack so go far this year is nearly as good as last year when the february measurement was inches of snow containing 13 inches of water measurements made by the recent ski patrol show even better conditions at points lower than cedar breaks at duck creek ranger station they inches of snow containing 72 inches of water and at harris flat ranger station the average was 27 17 inches of snow containing 89 69 inches of water the snow at all stations was well packed but in many cases the ground beneath was dry indicating that an unusual amount of moisture will be absorbed when melting starts in the spring |