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Advisory: Moab Area Mountains | Issued by Eric Trenbeath for Tuesday - January 21, 2014 - 7:47am |
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current conditions
La Sal Mountains Under the current weather pattern, there is little change to report. The snow surface on the other hand, is an extremely mixed bag with a variety of hard and breakable wind and sun crusts. On sunny aspects, the sun crusts are softening during the day. In the most sheltered, mid and lower elevations it is still possible to find soft, re-crystallized snow, but in these areas, faceted grains, or sugar snow have taken over most of the pack and in some cases, it is possible to sink right through to the ground. Abajo Mountains Low snow conditions prevail with many sun exposed slopes showing bare ground. |
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description
As the faceting process takes over the snow pack, there are areas where it is possible to trigger a loose, faceted snow avalanche. This danger exists primarily on steep, shady, sheltered slopes at mid to upper mid elevations.You can recognize these areas where the snow is unsupportable, or barely supportable for a skier or snowmobile, and where you can stick your ski pole right through to the ground. Though not large, these loose snow avalanches can sweep you of your feet, slamming you into trees or carrying you over a rock band.
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The snow pack is currently very weak, and in many cases, complex, with a variety of weak faceted layers, crust/facet combinations, as well as depth hoar. Persistent slabs themselves are deteriorating, but they can still be found, primarily on upper mid-elevation terrain facing the north half of the compass. Persistent north winds have scoured typical starting zones, so areas to suspect are further down slope than usual. This danger is very isolated, and persistent slabs would be difficult to difficult trigger, nevertheless, they would be fairly large and dangerous. Photo below shows the type of areas that remain suspect.
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As temperatures climb during the day, be alert to loose, wet slide activity on sunny slopes. |
weather We remain firmly entrenched under a ridge of high pressure. Clouds will develop Wednesday night in advance of a weak disturbance that will affect our area on Thursday. Highs at 10,000' will be in the mid 30's, and overnight lows will be around 20 degrees. |
general announcements OBSERVATIONS: If you are out and about in the mountains, I'd love to know what you are seeing so please SUBMIT OBSERVATIONS You can read current OBSERVATIONS HERE. LUNA GROOMING INFORMATION: Grooming is scheduled for Mondays and Fridays. Skating and cross-country skiing conditions are excellent, but by about 2 in the afternoon the track starts to get pretty soft. ROAD CONDITIONS: The road is clear. UAC MOBILE APP: Get your advisory on your iphone with this app
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Advisory Hotline: (888) 999-4019 | Contact Information