TR: Too Deep To Ski

I looked at this picture before I read the text (as I usually do :rolleyes2 ) and I thought you were skiing uphill.

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MOUNTAIN WEATHER

The northern mountains got hit again, so slam your morning coffee and throw a coat of purple wax on your boards because it’s chilly out there. A strong northwest current dumped 20 inches of fluffy powder in the Bridgers. The northern Gallatins are showing another 6-8 inches while the rest of our area got 3-6 inches with snowfall amounts tapering off to the south. Mountain temperatures this morning are reading –8F up north to +8F down south. Ridgetop winds are starting to subside from their strong westerly gusts at 50 mph to a more southwest flow at 10-20 mph. Cloudy skies will clear by tonight as a stable, dry and bitter cold airmass settles in. Winds will remain light and temperatures will only rise into the single digits before plummeting to 20 below this evening.


SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE DISCUSSION

The Bridger Range:

With 20 inches of new and temperatures at –8F in the Bridgers there won’t be any “lightweights” in the backcountry today. For me, I’m staying in the warm office and waiting for the hard men to break all those trails. Yesterday, some folks skied along the ridge and found many wind pillows that were cracking, collapsing and easily avalanching. Our concerns are limited to these wind loaded areas where you’ll likely trigger a slide today. With 20 inches of low-density snow there’s plenty of ammunition to feed these wind slabs. For today in the Bridger Range the avalanche danger is CONSIDERABLE on wind-loaded slopes steeper than 35 degrees. Slopes not affected by the wind will be eyeball deep and only have a MODERATE danger if they’re steeper than 35 degrees and LOW danger on lower angled slopes

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