Sunday storm update

If you were on the Mountain today, you no doubt heard the retorts of our explosive control work all morning and into the afternoon. Our storm total is up to 26 inches in Jupiter with over 4 inches of water. This led us to another busy crazy day with a few more HUGE avalanches in the Jupiter Peak, Scott's Bowl, and Pinecone areas. The massive water weight added by this storm (we calculated over 3600 tons of new weight in Scott's Bowl alone) clearly tipped the snow stability scale way over the edge in our upper Mountain terrain. As you also noticed if you were up today, we did not manage to get Jupiter open. The bare bed surfaces and huge debris piles left by the avalanches combined with the poor visibility due to the afternoon storm forced us to make the call that it just was not safe to open.

Tomorrow is another day, we'll be at it again by 5am, and HOPEFULLY conditions will improve enough for us to get Jupiter open. On another note, good luck to Hutch and Miss Belle in their first day of CARTA avalanche doggie school. We hope to get more updates from them throughout their week in Canada.

Comments

[hugues]

Hello,
I'm from Montréal and I'll be down in park city in 3 weeks for 4 days of sky and I was wondering if there were guides available? I want to get the best of the moutain in 2 days...I'm also pproaying every night for lots of pow pow in the commings weeks....wahooo....

Eric replies:
Hi Hugues, our Ski & Snowboard instructors are very well equipped to give you the inside scoop on some of the secret stashed on the mountain - see http://www.parkcitymountain.com/winter/school for group and private lesson options. Otherwise, our personal mountain planner is a great way to plan a day on the mountain yourself, check it out at http://www.mymountainplanner.com keep on praying for snow!

[Wendy]

Thanks so much for all your great work! Expecting for more Utah pow pow...:D

Eric replies:
Thanks Wendy!