In partnership with: The Friends of the
Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department of Public Safety Division of
Comprehensive Emergency Management,
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Avalanche INFORMATION
Monday, November 15,
2004 5:30 pm
Good
afternoon, this is Bruce Tremper with the
Important announcement:
Tomorrow morning, UDOT
will be sighting in their avalanche control cannons in Little
Also, Alta will be closed
to uphill traffic for the remainder of the winter, and they will open on
Thursday.
Our next new ‘Know Before
You Go’ avalanche talk geared for the younger backcountry rider tomorrow night
at 7pm on the BYU campus in room 2170 in the JKHB building.
Current Conditions:
If
you ever wanted spring conditions in November, this is your chance. Warm temperatures and sunshine over the
weekend kept the snow soggy on all the sun exposed slopes and you were even
punching through in wet snow as you get below about 9,000’ on south aspects. Even with the warm temperatures, there’s still 6 inches of decent recrystallized
powder on northerly facing, shady slopes above about 9,000’, that is, if you
can still find something that’s not tracked up.
Avalanche Conditions:
The
wind on Friday created some localized wind slabs along the highest ridges and
on Saturday a couple people were able to trigger some shallow soft slabs and
took short rides. Luckily, everyone is
OK. One was high on Red Baldy in White
Pine Canyon and another in Wolverine Cirque.
We have
PHOTOS on the web. These wind slabs
settled out quickly, though and everything seemed pretty tame by Sunday. Things should remain mostly stable until we
get more snow later in the week.
Mountain Weather:
We
should remain in a weak high pressure for the first half of the week with
mostly sunny skies and 8,000’ temperatures 45-50 and overnight lows in the mid
20’s. Our next chance for snowfall
arrives Thursday evening through the weekend with a colder storm from the
northwest that should make it feel like winter again.
If
you are getting out, drop us a line or an email with any reports or
observations from the backcountry. You
can leave us a message at 524-5304 or 1 800-662-4140. Email us at [email protected],
or send a fax to 524-6301.
The
information in this advisory is from the US Forest Service, which is solely
responsible for its content. This
advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always
occur.
Thanks
for calling.
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