In
partnership with:
To receive automated
e-mails of this advisory click HERE.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Good morning, this is Drew
Hardesty with the
Current Conditions:
It’s safe to say that our
second corn cycle of the season is here, and it compares favorably to our first
from back in November. Not much is
happening weather-wise, and the ultra-stable airmass parked over us has overnight
ridgetop temperatures in the mid thirties with the basins and valley bottoms in
the upper teens. The winds are still
light from the west. With easy walking
conditions underneath blue skies today’ll be another good day for some good
avalanche sight-seeing from our last cycle.
Avalanche Conditions:
It’s been a full week now
since our last non-explosive human triggered slide in the backcountry and the
old weak layers have gradually adjusted to the wallop they received earlier in
the month. To be sure, the mentality is
changing from “it’ll be possible” to “well, I wouldn’t be too surprised” in pulling
out one of the deep slabs in steep shallow rocky areas. The warmer temperatures
may be a contributing factor in any lingering deep slab instability as
well.
Bottom Line (
Most areas
have a LOW danger.
A MODERATE danger of these deep slab monsters remains
on steep mid and upper elevation north through east facing slopes, and trigger
points may be more pronounced near shallow rocky areas.
By midday, the
danger of wet activity will rise to MODERATE.
Mountain Weather:
It’ll be another beautiful
day above the soup with the daytime highs at 8,000’ near 50 with ridge top
temperatures at 40 degrees. Winds will
be light and westerly. Looks like the
ridge will start to break down mid-week with a series of storms that will initially
stir the pot and then produce some snow by late week.
Yesterday the Powderbird
Guides flew in Days,
There will be a
free, short video and a panel discussion entitled “Avalanche – Weather
Mountains and Risk. It will be at the
Salt Lake Library at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, January 26th.
Snowbird is
hosting its 2nd annual Backcountry Avalanche Awareness Week January
31 – February 7th as a benefit for the
The new UAC web page is up
and operational. Check it out at
www.avalanche.org then click on
If you see anything we ought
to know about, remember we can’t be everywhere at once, so we depend on people
just like you. Leave a message at
524-5304, or 1-800-662-4140, or e-mail us at [email protected]
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.
I will update this advisory by 7:30 on Monday
morning.
Thanks for calling
For an explanation of
avalanche danger ratings: