Wasatch Cache National Forest
In
partnership with:
The NEW AND IMPROVED Utah Avalanche Center Home page
is: http://www.utahavalanchecenter.com
To receive automated
e-mails of this advisory click HERE.
Avalanche advisory
Monday, January 24, 2005
Good morning, this is Drew
Hardesty with the
Current Conditions:
The inverted temperatures
have gone a little off the deep end. At
10,000’, overnight ‘lows’ are pushing 40 degrees along the ridgelines, and
temperatures drop rapidly into the upper teens and low twenties with elevation
loss. Skies are clear and winds are
light and variable. I find it’s a little
less disorienting if you stand on your head in the mountains so it looks and
feels like the valley fog and cooler temps are above. Backcountry conditions consist of good corn
on the sunny aspects and patches of wind damage, temperature crust, and recrystallized
snow on the shady. The corn window will
be a bit earlier this morning.
Avalanche Conditions:
No news is good news and
the avalanche pattern is in the same doldrums as the weather. The usual regimen for spring skiing will be the
ticket: once things heat up too much and you start to see pinwheels and
rollerballs, or you’re pushing too much wet snow down the hill, it’ll be time
to change aspects or head home. Still
plenty of jaw dropping avalanche eye-candy
out there. [Click here
for a new
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 AF and Lambs. Today they
will be in AF and Cascade. As per permit
restriction, they will not be in the Tri-canyon area.
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.
Brett Kobernik will update this advisory by 7:30 on
Tuesday morning.
Thanks for calling
For an explanation of
avalanche danger ratings: