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Parks and Recreation, The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department
of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and
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you on top”
AVALANCHE ADVISORY
Sunday,
April 06, 2008 7:30 am
Good morning, this is
Our partners, the Friends of the
Current Conditions:
Skies are overcast and
you can see some light precipitation moving in from the west. Winds bumped overnight along the highest
ridgelines, blowing 20-30mph, though they’re considerably more behaved out of
the more exposed terrain. They should settle out as the day wears on. Temperatures are in the upper teens and low
twenties. Riding conditions yesterday on
the true norths made a Pacific Northwest’r
homesick. I just thought it was a little
thick around the ankles. Off aspects
were not as enjoyable.
Snow and Avalanche Discussion:
It was mostly quiet in
the backcountry yesterday, with some dry sluffing and a few isolated, very
shallow soft slabs triggered in the upper layers of the snow. What makes it LOW danger? It all comes down to probability, size,
distribution, what we call ‘avalanche character’, and stability trend. Let’s look at what we’ll find today. More sluffing perhaps and some 6-8” soft
slabs confined to the highest easterly and cross-loaded slopes, and most pronounced
above, say 10,000’ getting toward 10,500’ to 11,000’. Probability
is possible, size is shallow, area distribution is isolated to high
lee terrain, character is ‘manageable’
and easily mitigated, and trend is to
settle out. You are the one to choose
the terrain. What are the consequences of getting knocked off your feet? Can I safely ski or slope cut this
pillow? Make good choices with good
communication among your party.
Bottom Line for the
Most terrain has a LOW danger today. Isolated
pockets of MODERATE exist up high in steep, exposed, lee terrain. Keep an eye on the sluffing potential if we
pick up a few more inches of snow.
Mountain Weather:
A few weak disturbances will
move through on a westerly flow today adding perhaps a couple inches of snow to
the higher terrain. Winds, gusty this
morning, ought to settle out by late morning.
8000’ temps will be near 30 with 10,000’ temps in the low twenties. A better defined storm moves in tomorrow that
may add up to 6-10” in west to northwesterly flow favored - terrain. The mid-week disturbance looks like it might
dive south. Then the warm-up kicks in for
the weekend.
Announcements
The Wasatch Powderbird
Guides didn’t get out yesterday and if they can get out today will head for
American Fork and Cascade. For more
detailed information please call (801) 742-2800 or go to their daily blog.
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UDOT highway avalanche control work info can be
found by calling (801) 975-4838.
Our statewide tollfree line is 1-888-999-4019 (early morning, option 8).
Watch video tututorials and fieldwork from UAC staff at our YouTube
channel.
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forecasting and education that you expect please visit our Friends page.
If you see any avalanches or interesting snow conditions, please leave us a
message at (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, or email us at [email protected].
(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.