Episode 5 of the UAC podcast "To Hell in a Heartbeat - A Conversation With Tom Diegel and Matt Clevenger About the 12.26.08 Full Burial on Little Water" is live. Matt and Tom talk about the avalanche documented in To Hell in a Heartbeat. Check it out on ITunes, Stitcher, the UAC blog.
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Things are starting to turn around for the Abajo Mountains. Depending on elevation, 10-16" of snow has fallen since Monday and it's finally looking like winter up there. Buckboard Flat is reporting 6" of new since late Wednesday, and Kevin Dressel was stomping around up high on Jackson Ridge yesterday where he reported a foot of new snow. Read about his travels here.
Southeast ridge top winds overnight were mostly light but they've picked up this morning into the 20 mph range with gusting to 30. That trend should continue today. 9000' temps are in the low to mid teens and a it's a frigid 2 degrees on Abajo Peak.
Wind, temperature and humidity on Abajo Peak (11,000')
Snow totals at Buckboard Flat (8924')
Snow totals at Camp Jackson (8858')
It's finally looking like winter up there! Kevin Dressel photo.