In partnership with: Utah Division of State
Parks and Recreation, The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department
of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and
AVALANCHE ADVISORY
Thursday,
January 26, 2006 7:30am
Good morning, this is
Current Conditions:
I hate it when we only forecast 2 inches
of snow and we’re right. Sure enough, only
a wimpy 2 inches of new snow fell last night in the Wasatch Range with no snow
falling in the mountains north of
Avalanche Conditions:
No one reported any significant avalanches yesterday
from the backcountry, but most folks noticed some isolated pockets of very
hard, wind drifts along the ridges that were too stubborn to trigger. PHOTO
With the new snow overnight, I’m sure that the winds created some isolated
pockets of shallow, soft wind slabs in upper elevation wind exposed terrain but
in theory, they should be easy to manage.
Bottom Line:
The avalanche danger is generally LOW with isolated pockets
of MODERATE danger
on any steep slope with a recent deposit of wind drifted snow.
Mountain Weather:
We should have partly cloudy skies today with perhaps a few light snow
showers. Ridge top winds should blow 10-20
mph from the west with ridge top temperatures in the mid 20’s and 30 degrees
down at 8,000’. Then we have several
disturbances from the west scheduled over the next several days. The first one will arrive Friday, which
should freshen us up with perhaps 6 more inches of
snow. Another stronger and windier storm
should arrive on Sunday with perhaps foot of snow. Then, we stay in the snow-flow with another
disturbance a week from today—just the way we like it. Click here for the National
Weather Service graphic Forecast.
Announcements:
Early birds and snow
geeks can catch our 6AM report at 364-1591.
You can find our mountain
weather forecast here
by about noon each day.
3rd Annual
Backcountry Awareness Week Monday Jan 30-Sunday February 5
Fundraising
Dinner February 3rd at 6pm with speakers Conrad Anker and Apa
Sherpa. For more info, call Snowbird at
933-2147. Visit www.backcountryawareness.com for
more details.
Check out our new graphical advisory format. You can update your bookmarks to this link:
http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/newadvisory/advisory.php
Click HERE for a text only
version of the avalanche advisory.
To
have this advisory automatically e-mailed to you each day, click HERE. (You must re-sign up this season even if you
were on the list last season.)
UDOT also has a highway avalanche control work
hotline for Big and Little Cottonwood canyons, which is updated as needed.
801-975-4838.
The
Wasatch Powderbird Guides did not get out yesterday due to high wind and today
they will probably not have the visibility.
But if they do, they will fly in Mineral,
Please
report any backcountry snow and avalanche conditions. Call (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, email [email protected] or fax 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.
Brett Kobernik will update this advisory by 7:30 Friday morning. Thanks for calling.