Urgent battery replacement required for anyone who received batteries from one of our participating "Batteries for Beacons" shops. Please review the
"Batteries for Beacons" replacement notice on our blog. Batteries distributed through our "Batteries for Beacons" program this year have shown to be inadequate length.
- Please join the UAC at Deer Valley on January 30th for the 2nd Annual Blizzard Ball Gala. The night will be full of fun including delicious cuisine, live music, an auction, and presentation by Bruce Tremper. More info found here.
Nowcast- Thickening clouds settled in overnight, ushering in a stray snow flurry or two along with temperatures in the low teens. Hooray... we clawed our way out of the icebox! After a multi-day residency, southwest winds finally relaxed just in time for Friday nights dinner party and currently blow in the teens near the high peaks. The snow surface has taken a beating, but with a little patience and some stubborn fortitude, you can still find swaths of soft snow on very wind sheltered, shady slopes.
Forecast- Under mostly cloudy skies, look for on again, off again snow showers with minor accumulations expected across most of the range... though the south half of the range near Currant Creek and Daniels may over-produce. Temperatures climb into the mid 20's and southerly winds blowing in the teens remain rather well-behaved throughout the day.
Futurecast- We are high and dry going into next week.
Snow totals are bit up in the air. The pessimist in me says a trace of snow... the optimist says a couple traces of snow. Perhaps the truth lays somewhere in-between :)
A result of fierce, northerly, midweek winds... a shallow, yet well connected natural avalanche in the image above was reported Wednesday on a steep, southeast facing slope in the wind zone of Upper Weber Canyon.
You can find trip reports and recent slides from across the range and beyond,
here.
