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Avalanche ADVISORY
Monday, December 06,
2004 7:30 Am
Good
morning, this is Drew Hardesty with the
Provo Canyon DOT will be sighting in their artillery along the
south side of the canyon as soon as weather permits, which will close the area
for ice climbing.
The 9th
annual Wasatch Women’s Telemark Days this year will be on Sunday, December 12th
at Alta and Saturday, January 29th at The Canyons. For more information call 231-1160
or 424-3961.
Current Conditions:
Skies
are mostly cloudy in the mountains with a couple inches of new from light
snowfall as a system passes by to the north.
The southwest winds blew in the 20-30mph range at the most exposed
locations, and except for the
Avalanche Conditions:
Yesterday
broke our string of 11 days in a row of avalanches in the backcountry, but with
a more snow and wind this week, I expect we’ll start a new string. Of interest
from Sunday was the scouring and drifting by the southwesterly winds onto the
north and easterly slopes. The winds
were even more pronounced in the
Looking
down-week, the future ain’t what it used to be.
It’ll be interesting as we have very weak surface snow, hard bed
surfaces, crusts, and mid-pack weaknesses.
Throw in strong forecasted winds starting tonight through Thursday and a
couple waves of precipitation from a warm front that may provide a foot or more
of snow, and things start to get spicy again.
Stay tuned.
Bottom Line: While most slopes have a LOW danger, a MODERATE danger
remains for any steep slope with recent wind drifts. There remains a MODERATE danger of triggering a slide into old snow on
northwest through easterly facing slopes steeper than about 35 degrees at the
mid and upper elevations.
Mountain Weather:
A
brush-by to the north should produce more clouds and perhaps a flake or two
during the day. Winds will be out of the
west and southwest at 10-15mph. 8000’
highs will be in the mid-twenties with 10,000’ temps in the low teens. Starting tonight, the first of a couple waves
on a moist west to southwest flow should start to bring snow to the mountains. I’ll have our more detailed mountain weather forecast
updated by about noon.
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.
Evelyn
Lees will update this advisory by 7:30 Tuesday morning, and thanks for calling.
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