Save the date and take a date!
Please join Craig Gordon, that's me, Tuesday January 21st from 6:00-7:30 PM at Alpha Coffee in Cottonwood Heights for a State of the Snowpack presentation. Reserve a spot and find out more deets
HERE.
In addition, 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- From the North Slope to the south half of the range, light snow showers overnight delivered a couple inches of very low density snow across the range. Northwest winds blow in the 30's near the high peaks adding quite a bite to temperatures registering in negative territory, creating windchill to -26 degrees along the ridges... ouch! Last nights storm snow helps cushion some of the rugged old snow surfaces and if you can stand the toe-numbing temperatures your best best is to seek out wind sheltered, mid elevation shady slopes.
Forecast- A very cold storm keeps snow showers going through the morning, but I don't expect more than an additional inch or two stacking up. High temperatures barely crack into the teens and overnight lows crater into negative domain. Northwest winds blowing in the 30's near the high peaks are gonna be more than a nuisance, they'll create dangerously cold windchill, so you'll wanna keep an eye on each other today.
Futurecast- Partly sunny skies are on tap for Sunday, though a lingering snow shower isn't out of the question. A frigid blast of air delivers the coldest temperatures of the year with highs barely creeping into the teens. Clear, cold, and calm through midweek.
Most likely cornice triggered, our main man with the Uinta plan, Ted Scroggin, spotted this piece of snow Thursday peeling off a steep wind drifted slope on
Double Hill in the Whitney Basin.
You can find trip reports and recent slides from across the range and beyond,
here.