There's still a few slots left. Please join us 6:00-9:00 PM, Tuesday Feb. 6th at Weller's Recreation for our Companion Rescue class. Details and registration are found here. Hurry.... operators are standing by!
Skies are cloudy and temperatures in the low to mid 20's. West-southwest winds are blowing 35-60 mph along the high ridges. It's a mixed bag out there today... yesterday's moist, low cloud deck, glazed the region with a thin rime crust and recent winds blasted our big open bowls. But somewhere in-between, soft settled snow still exists on wind sheltered, mid elevation, shady terrain.
Above are 24 hour temperatures and snow depth from Upper Moffit Basin along with winds and temperatures from Windy Peak. More remote Uinta weather stations are found here
Ted was near Lofty Lake yesterday and found gray skies along with a thin layer of rime adhering itself to trees, structures, and the snow surface. More on his travels as well as a great body of recent trip reports, observations, and snow data found here.
John Mletschnig was in Millcreek Thursday near Dead Man Pass and found this day old sled triggered slide which broke 3'-4' deep and approx 300' wide. More on this slide here. (Mletschnig​ photo)
And longtime listener, first time caller David Guidry spotted this slide triggered low on the slope near the Mill Hollow trailhead. Thanks Dave... I really appreciate your great info!
In addition, I spotted this recently triggered slide in Chalk Creek.
These slides follow the recent pattern of human triggered avalanches, initiated low on the slope and breaking to our midpack facet/crust weakness.