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Sunday,
December 03, 2006 7:30 am
Good morning, this is Drew Hardesty with the
Current Conditions:
Under clear skies,
temperatures remain in the single digits at most mountain locations with temps below
zero in the cold drainages and basins.
Winds remain northwesterly and less than 15mph. Riding conditions remain excellent where the
coverage is good, but some of the steep southerly aspects will have a thin
zipper crust this morning.
Snowpack and Avalanche Conditions:
Except for some minor sluffing in the weakening
surface snow, the only avalanche we heard about was an explosive triggered
avalanche to the ground in upper
With gradual warming and clear skies, watch for the
southerly aspects to start producing wet loose snow avalanches with daytime
heating over the next few days.
Check out a quick tutorial on snow
pit diagrams and a movie clip
(5.4mb) of a stability test for the upper part of the snowpack.
Bottom Line:
The avalanche danger
is mostly LOW today with a few isolated pockets of MODERATE in steep, drifted, rocky north through east facing slopes. This would be for less than 5% of the
mentioned terrain.
Mountain Weather:
High pressure,
accompanied by a warming trend, will generally dominate our weather pattern for
the upcoming week. The winds will remain
out of the west and northwest at less then 15mph while 8000’ and 10,000’ temps
rise to 30 and 23 degrees, respectively.
Announcements:
Our
partners, the FUAC, will hold their next fundraiser
at Brewvies on Dec 7th. There will be two showings of TGR’s new
film, “The Anomaly”, at 7pm and 9pm.
Advance tickets are available.
We appreciate any
snowpack and avalanche observations you have, so please let us know by calling
(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.
I will update this
advisory by 7:30 on Monday morning and thanks for calling.