Bruce Tremper will be giving a free Science of Avalanches talk tonight at 7pm at the beautiful Swaner Eco-Center in Park City.

Just a few slots left for the UAC's only Advanced Avalanche Class this year. This Thursday evening & Saturday, Drew will be leading an advanced avalanche workshop. This will focus on advanced terrain assessment, matching terrain to specific avalanche conditions, examining the 7 avalanche types, and combining on-the-fly-strength, structure, & energy assessments to make real-time Go or No-Go decisions in the backcountry. This is a great next step for a recent Level 1 or BC 101 or a great refresher for someone who has backcountry experience & realizes that next Saturday is most likely going to be a warm, sunny non-epic powder day, perfect for working on skills to put to work when the storm cycles resume. http://utahavalanchecenter.org/advanced-skills-backcountry-201

Doug is one of the world's foremost polar adventurers and has skied both North and South Poles more than anyone on the planet. Doug is a ski mountaineer, ski guide, expedition leader, motivational speaker, humanitarian, stand up paddler and father. Doug was the first to ski and snowboard the highest peak in Antarctica (Vinson Massif 16,077ft) and is the first American male to ski across Antarctica from the coast to the Geographic South Pole.

Admission is Free- A $5 donation to the Utah Avalanche Center gets you 3 tickets to a drawing with great prizes from our sponsors

Skies are clear. Temps and the southwesterlies have increased overnight ahead of tomorrow morning's weak cold front. Overnight "lows" in the alpine are in the mid 30s; trailheads and basins have bottomed out in the mid to high teens. Along the unobstructed ridgelines, anemometers are just starting to see winds in the 30-40mph range with gusts to 45. Nope, the cold front tomorrow "ain't much", but it heralds the decline of the ridge of high pressure that has weakened our snow surfaces and choked our lungs. My glass is half-full.

In the meantime, check out this great search engine put together by the folks at Montana State University where one can search and sift all day long through past and present articles and poster presentations from the biennial International Snow Science Workshops (ISSW). You can find great articles written by many Wasatch locals over the years, including Dr. Phoebe McNeally from the U's GIS lab, Park City Snow Safety's own Mark Saurer, UDOT Little Cottonwood's Matt McKee and Adam Naisbitt, Alta Snow Safety's Dan "Howie" Howlett, and many others. Check it out!