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Good Morning. This is Bruce Tremper with the
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partner, the Friends of the
Current Conditions:
First for some tragic news: There were 8 American skiers killed in an
avalanche in
Back here in
This morning, the winds along
the highest peaks have picked up and are blowing around 35, gusting to 45 from
the west, but they are a more reasonable 15 mph at lower elevation ridge
tops. With no snow in the past 10 days,
the snow surface has been described as being “old and worn out.” All the southerly facing slopes have sun
crusts. All the upper elevation,
above-tree-line areas have widespread wind damage and there is still surprisingly
good, 6 inches of nice, soft, dry recrystalized snow on the wind-sheltered
slopes that face the north half of the compass, but most popular slopes are
completely tracked out.
Avalanche Conditions:
There similarly little going
on in the avalanche department with mostly low danger on nearly all slopes. The only exceptions are the steep slopes that
have deposits of wind drifted snow. Most
of the wind drifting occurred nearly a week ago and most of these wind drifts
are no longer sensitive to the weight of a person, but there are still a few
steep slopes where you could trigger one.
These wind deposits are hard, often hollow-sounding, with a smooth,
rounded appearance, and if you find one of these on a steep slope, you should
approach it with caution.
Bottom Line (SLC,
There is a MODERATE danger of
triggering an avalanche on any steep slope with deposits of wind drifted snow
with a LOW danger
elsewhere.
Mountain Weather:
A very weak storm will cross
The long range weather calls
for another weak system that won’t do anything on about Thursday and another system,
which should produce slightly better than nothing on about Sunday and
Monday. Unfortunately, we still don’t
see any significant snow in the forecast in the foreseeable future.
General Information:
Wasa
The Friends of the
On Sunday February 2nd
there will be a fundraiser for the Wasa
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and avalanche conditions, especially if you observe or trigger an avalanche,
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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.
Evelyn Lees will update this advisory by
Thanks for calling!
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National Weather Service - Salt
Lake City - Snow.
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