The report from last Friday's avalanche accident in the La Sals is finished and can be found
HERE. Our deepest condolences go out to the family and friends affected by this accident.
New blog post -
I AM Dangerous (
link). This is a conversation/collaboration with the writer Molly Absolon in the Tetons. Thanks Molly.
Skies are mostly clear this morning but the warming mountain temperatures and backing winds are a portent of things to come. Temps are in the upper 20s to low 30s. The west-northwest winds slowly shifted to the southwest overnight and are blowing 10mph with gusts to 15. Anemometers along the Ogden skyline have hourly speeds twice that. Skiing and riding conditions are variable but decent with the weakening snow surfaces and surface hoar in the wind and sun sheltered terrain. We'll want the next 36 hours of sun, wind, clouds, and temperatures to decay, degrade, or demolish these developing surface weaknesses prior to the storm(s). As they say, today's snow surfaces may be tomorrow's buried weak layer.
Big Picture - a series of wet, warm and windy storms is approaching from the west/southwest and the avalanche danger will be in sharp lockstep with each pulse of the storm. It'll be time to step back in our terrain selection for a little while.