Nowcast- Skies cleared last night and temperatures plummeted like a bad stock option with most remote weather stations cratering to -15 degrees. Northerly winds blow 15-25 mph along the high peaks creating dangerously cold windchill of -35 degrees. However, if you can get past the ice cream headache you'll find 5 star riding and turning conditions.
Forecast- Expect sunny skies, temperatures barely creeping into the teens, and northerly winds blowing 10-20 mph along the high ridges.
Futurecast- Not much going on... we remain high and dry through the work week. Temperatures steadily increase each day and winds are generally light. A quick hitter late in the week delivers a couple traces of snow Friday.
Ka-Pow! Weston D and Mark Staples took a rip around Smith-Moorehouse yesterday and report amazing coverage with even more amazinger riding conditions. Their trip report is found HERE.
Huge thanks for all the great obs streaming in from the eastern front. Detailed trip reports and recent obs are found
HERE.
It'll take a keen eye to see this slide from the Mill Hollow trail. On Sunday, Shaun, Weston, and I checked out Saturday's human triggered slide on a steep, lower elevation, northwest facing slope in the Mill Hollow zone. We found the piece of snow breaking 18" deep and failing on a buried layer of Near Surface Facets mostly likely formed last Monday during a little break in storms and then buried and preserved by last weeks storms. More deets found
HERE.No other significant recent avalanche activity to report. However, if ya wanna geek out, click
HERE to track this years slide activity throughout the range.
