http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com Current Avalanche Advisory from the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:30:00 -0700 http://www.avalanche.org/~svavctr/img/logo3.gif http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/adv_current.php Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:30:00 -0700 Issued: 4.7.2008 by Chris Lundy
For real-time weather station data until mid-May check:
Titus Ridge: http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/wx_titus.php
Lower Titus: http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/wx_lower.php
Bald Mountain: http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/wx_baldy.php

Avalanche Conditions:
Spring has not really arrived at upper elevations where a cold, winter-like snowpack remains. This means you'll want to continue to treat the snowpack like you would mid-winter, looking for potential weak layers and evaluating the stability of those layers.

Another concern will be when spring does finally arrive in earnest. When the spring-time heat inevitably turns on, watch out for periods when overnight temperatures remain above freezing, especially if this lasts for a few days or more. Under these conditions, our upper elevation snowpack may go "isothermal" which is a fancy way of saying that liquid water is present throughout the entire snowpack. The...

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