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Good Morning. This is Bruce Tremper with the
Current Conditions:
With a mighty one inch of new
snow overnight and three in the past 24 hours, this weak storm isn’t impressing me much.
Most of the energy from the storm is heading south of us and I don’t
think we’ll get much more. The south
facing slopes are sun crusted, there’s some wind damage along the ridge tops
and the northerly facing slopes still have some nice powder, but it has gotten
thicker from the very nice snow yesterday.
Avalanche Conditions:
We heard of four more human
triggered avalanches that occurred in the backcountry yesterday. A skier triggered a steep wind slab in
Although the avalanches are
harder to trigger than a couple days ago, as you can see, things are still plenty
ske
This doesn’t mean that it’s
dangerous everywhere. The hot tip for
the day is to do one of three things:
First, the south facing slopes are significantly more stable than the
north facing ones because the new snow fell mostly on bare ground or snow
stabilized by the heat of the sun. The downside
is that these slopes will be rocky and sun crusted. Second, if you must go the steep slopes on shady
aspects, you can have a good time on slopes that slid during the storm, which
should be fairly safe as long as you don’t tickle the snow hanging above the
fracture line. The bad news is that it’s
hard to tell what slid during the storm and what didn’t because most of the
slides are now covered up by a foot of new, and wind-blown, snow. Also, these slopes tend to be rocky because
some of the snow was removed during the slide.
Finally, you can go to a slope on
a shady aspect that did not slide during the storm. The bad news is that anything steeper than
about 35 degrees will likely slide so you’ll have to diligently wa
Bottom Line (SLC,
The avalanche danger is CONSIDERABLE today on
all steep slopes with wind drifted snow.
The danger is also CONSIDERABLE
on northwest, north, northeast and east facing slopes above about 7,000’
steeper than about 35 degrees, and MODERATE to LOW
on steep southeast through southwest facing slopes or on steep slopes that slid
during the storm.
Mountain Weather:
Tonight at
General Information:
The Friends of the
To report backcountry snow
and avalanche conditions, especially if you observe or trigger an avalanche,
call (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, or email to [email protected] or fax to
801-524-6301. The information in this
advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its
content. This advisory describes general
avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
Ethan Greene will update this advisory by
Thanks for calling!
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