Introduction: Good
morning! This is Max Forgensi
with the
WE ARE STARTING TO FILL UP OUR AIARE LEVEL 1 AND LEVEL
2 CLASSES BEING HELD IN THE LA SALS THIS YEAR.
THE LEVEL 1 IS FEBRUARY 3RD-5TH (FRI-SUN), WHILE
OUR LEVEL 2 IS MARCH 3RD-6TH
(FRI-MON). CALL (435)
636-3363 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP.
EACH CLASS IS LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS.
TUITION GOES DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE FRIENDS OF THE
To see past advisories check out the ARCHIVE. To see current conditions go to our WEATHER PAGE. To see photos go to the AVIPHOTOS page.
General Conditions:
Yesterday
the Grand County Road Department was able to plow the
Current Conditions: (click location for latest data)
Geyser
Pass Trailhead (9,600’):
8.4” at the SNOTEL.
15” at the GPTH Snowstake, 1” in the past 48 hours. 22
degrees at the
Mountain Weather: (At 10,500’)
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high around 32. West wind around 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. West southwest wind around
15 mph.
Saturday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near
33. Breezy, with a west southwest wind between 15 and 25 mph, with gusts as
high as 35 mph.
Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low near 21.
Windy, with a west southwest wind between 25 and 30 mph, with gusts as high as
45 mph. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Avalanche Conditions: (Link to the
International Avalanche Danger Scale here)
Wind, snow and sun. The more you have, the more the snow likes to
change. In the lower elevations, the
warm weather we received a couple of days ago made for a nice ½” thick
sun crust on South-SW-West aspects. In
the upper elevations, strong transport winds out of the Southwest during the
precipitation event transported snow onto East-Northeast-North-Northwest
aspects. This has created a small
3-4” thick hard wind slab on leeward sides of ridges and at the top of
starting zones. Whoomphing
was observed, but no natural avalanches.
This slab is sitting on top of a very rotten (read: depth hoar) layer on
these slopes. At the current time, there
isn’t enough weight on top of this weak snow to trigger a natural
avalanche, but if you add a human into the equation, some places might be
triggered. The BOTTOM LINE for today is going to be an avalanche danger of MODERATE on steep N-NE-E aspects at or above tree-line. The rest of the range is going to be LOW.