25th Annual Black Diamond Fall Fundraising Party
Thursday, September 13; 6:00-10:00 PM; Black Diamond Parking Lot
25th Annual Black Diamond Fall Fundraising Party
Thursday, September 13; 6:00-10:00 PM; Black Diamond Parking Lot
Advisory: Salt Lake Area Mountains | Issued by Drew Hardesty for Wednesday - February 15, 2017 - 6:06am |
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special announcement Thursday, Feb 16 - The Utah Adventure Journal Speaker Series presents Brendan Leonard with a presentation at Snowbird's Wildflower Lounge at 6 p.m. about his new book Sixty Meters to Anywhere. The presentation is free, but a donation for the Utah Avalanche Center enters you into a drawing for great prizes. LCC backcountry closures today 8am-4pm on the north side of Little Cottonwood Canyon from Lisa Falls to Monte Cristo. They'll be conducting rescue training and cornice mitigation work in this terrain today. |
current conditions Skies are clear. Winds are light from the northeast. Mountain temperatures are in the upper 20s to low 30s in the alpine. Riding conditions remain quite good in a few inches of recrystallized snow on the northerly aspects. Southerly aspects offer varying degrees of breakable to supportable corrugated sun crusts that will soften and break down with daytime heating. |
recent activity Reported activity yesterday included continued wet and dry point release sluffing in steep terrain. Avalanche control teams in high elevation terrain of LCC triggered a few shallow wind pockets with ski cuts and explosives. Photo below: natural and human triggered dry sluffs in steeper mid elevation northerly terrain; wet sluffs (PCMR) |
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Normal Caution. Remember that risk is inherent in mountain travel. Avalanche concerns for the backcountry include the following: Manageable -
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weather Today will be a repeat of yesterday with light winds, sunny skies, and temperatures warming to the mid-30s at 10,000' and near 50° at 8000'. A weak wave will produce a trace to an inch of snow Thursday night into Friday. The weekend's storm now looks to be diving way south into Baja, leaving us with only a few inches of snow with the northern branch of the system. |
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