25th Annual Black Diamond Fall Fundraising Party
Thursday, September 13; 6:00-10:00 PM; Black Diamond Parking Lot
25th Annual Black Diamond Fall Fundraising Party
Thursday, September 13; 6:00-10:00 PM; Black Diamond Parking Lot
Advisory: Provo Area Mountains | Issued by Drew Hardesty for Thursday - February 16, 2017 - 6:13am |
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special announcement Companion piece to #NothingBadHappened called Hindsight 20/40. |
current conditions Skies are clear. Winds and temperatures have bumped overnight. Southwest winds now spin at 10-15mph with gusts to 20. Overnight lows are at or just above freezing along the ridgelines with mid-elevation temperatures still in the upper 30s. Trailheads and valley bottom temps, of course, are in the upper teens to low 20s. Soft settled powder still exists in the mid-elevation shady slopes with supportable corn-like conditions on the south end of the compass. Despite the recent warm-up, we still have great coverage at the mid and upper elevations. Snow stakes show 90-120" of settled snow in the north and south forks of Provo canyon. |
recent activity Reported activity yesterday includes continued wet and dry point release sluffing in steep terrain. Most of these were not big enough to bury a person, though they certainly were enough to knock someone off their feet. Or worse - standing in the runout of long, sustained avalanche paths (see Schutz pic of NE chute of Elk Point on Timpanogos below). The photo below is in Primrose Cirque above Aspen Grove in the north fork of Provo Canyon, just up the street from Sundance resort. Primrose Cirque can be a terrifying place. Not only is the casual recreationist soon surrounded by 270° of avalanche paths, but one path adjacent to the NE Chute of Elk Point - the Theater in the Pines path (down and looker's left of the sluffing snow) - occasionally runs down to the parking area where it twice took out an Avalanche Danger sign in the 1990s. The Primrose Cirque has also claimed the lives of four people over the past 15 years. Long time observer Joey Dempster has a great report from yesterday here where he also reported some cracking of wind slabs in the mid-cirque. |
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LIKELIHOOD
LIKELY
UNLIKELY
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LARGE
SMALL
TREND
INCREASING DANGER
SAME
DECREASING DANGER
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description
Normal Caution. Remember that risk is inherent in mountain travel. Avalanche concerns for the backcountry include the following:
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weather A weakening storm will bring us some clouds, increased southwesterly winds, and perhaps a trace to 2" overnight. The weekend storm is diving well to the south of us but should keep us under an unsettled southerly flow with a few inches of snow likely over the weekend. For today, expect southwesterly winds to blow 20-30mph. Higher hourly averages expected north of I-80. Mountain temps will reach to near 50° at 8500'. |
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