This advisory provides updated detailed snow and avalanche conditions on weekends, with an update Monday morning. This information is to be used as a baseline for the upcoming week, and users need to be aware of the changing nature of avalanche conditions. New snow, winds, and a rapid rise in temperature all translate to a rise in avalanche danger. Use the links below to stay abreast of current conditions.
Hello, this is Bruce Tremper, filling in for Eric Trenbeath while he's away for the next 10 days.
I visited the Abajo Mountains yesterday with Dustin Randall and his wife Natalie and we found about 6 inches of soft, settled snow and recrystallized snow on the shady slopes with plenty of breakable sun crusts on all the sunny aspects. It's cloudy and very warm this morning with temperatures near freezing in the mountains. The high elevation wind station in the La Sal Mountains have picked up and are blowing 25, gusting to 30 from the southwest. It has not started snowing yet but there is dense, mountains snow falling in northern Utah and it should be here later in the afternoon and evening.
Yesterday, I shot a video of the current snowpack conditions, but unfortunately, I had some technical file transfer problems and I could not put together a video last night. But here is one I did of similar snowpack conditions in the La Sal mountains on Thursday:
Here's a link to a video I created on Thursday of the current snowpack conditions in the La Sal Mountains:
Winds, temperature and humidity on Abajo Peak.
Snow totals at Buckboard Flat.
Snow totals at Camp Jackson.