I-90 Down For The Count!!!

[H20SKE]

Updated further down the post---Still closed--for the night at least!!

Check this out--No way over for awhile--NB will be one huge parking lot!!
Temperature: 23ºF / -5ºC
Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed
Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed
Conditions & Weather:
Interstate 90 is closed indefinitely due to high avalanche danger and naturally occurring snow slides. The roadway is closed eastbound at milepost 34 near North Bend and westbound at milepost 106 near Ellensburg. Avalanche control work is presently underway. Due to the weather related nature of this closure an estimated time of opening is not known. Updated information will be provided as details become available. // Snowing hard
Updated: 9:23 AM, Jan 29, 2008
This is the most current info available
and is promptly updated when conditions change.



Also several rigs buried--a tanker truck and several cars--they are having natural avys where they did not expect them.

If ya get out riding---BE careful--AVY danger is HUGE HIGH!!

H20SKE...

 

[ericbigbore]

As you know, when they close it at 34 it could be days! Maybe they will wait till I get back from a business trip in Vegas on Friday. Save some POW for me!!

 

[yammadog]

Looks like the line is going to be long

Temperature: 28ºF / -2ºC


Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed


Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed


Conditions & Weather:
Update I-90 Snoqualmie Pass remains closed until avalanche control work is complete. WSDOT crews continue working through heavy snow to make I-90 safe for travel. Best case scenario: If the snow lets up considerably, we will be able to clear all of the main avalanche areas and have I-90 open late tonight. Worst case scenario: If the snow falls as forecasters predict (20 inches in the next 24 hours), avalanche control efforts will delay the opening until sometime Wednesday morning. // Snowing hard


Updated: 3:33 PM, Jan 29, 2008
This is the most current info available
and is promptly updated when conditions change.

 

[GraniteCreek]

Uh Oh

Temperature: 28ºF / -2ºC


Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed


Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed


Conditions & Weather:
Update I-90 Snoqualmie Pass remains closed until avalanche control work is complete. WSDOT crews continue working through heavy snow to make I-90 safe for travel. Best case scenario: If the snow lets up considerably, we will be able to clear all of the main avalanche areas and have I-90 open late tonight. Worst case scenario: If the snow falls as forecasters predict (20 inches in the next 24 hours), avalanche control efforts will delay the opening until sometime Wednesday morning. // Snowing hard


Updated: 3:33 PM, Jan 29, 2008
This is the most current info available
and is promptly updated when conditions change.

I like the sounds of this!!! Should be EPIC by Saturday!!!! Everyone please go to Stampede Pass....way more parking over there

 

[trlkidd]

Ill be on my when the pass opens.

 

[TWOSTOKED]

Just keeps getting better and better. Good thing I long tracked my kitty kat.

 

[minytallpines]

should be a nice stuck fest on the hill saturday. ill be sure to bring beers n camera. all on all gonna be epic none the less.

 

[H20SKE]

I like the sounds of this!!! Should be EPIC by Saturday!!!! Everyone please go to Stampede Pass....way more parking over there

Sounds like a good idea--Posers sounds good.

I will guess you will go to the Lake Ann area--have fun---Value your life??


The pass will be lucky to get open by tomorrow night!!

Ride safe and SMART---AVY IS EXTREME--And will still be EXTREME on saturday as well.

H20SKE...

Live to ride another day!!

 

[summitchaser]

I was helping my old man plow there drive way, they live off Golf course road exit. On one side of the road they have a bank that is pretty steep but small. It was sliding today and I have never seen it do that, They cut that grade 3 years ago. These were only 10 to 20 feet long and straight into the ditch, but I can only imagine how high the danger is in the hills

 

[H20SKE]

Still Closed---May not open before tomorrow afternoon with the snow that is forecast

Will have about 5 feet of fresh for thursday---YEHAWWW!! Everything will be a challenge--have ridden in it that deep before---a real fuel burner---it is going to be AWESOME.

But you will not see me on the steep---Just in the deep!!

H20SKE...

 

[GraniteCreek]

You Kidding???

Sounds like a good idea--Posers sounds good.

I will guess you will go to the Lake Ann area--have fun---Value your life??


The pass will be lucky to get open by tomorrow night!!

Ride safe and SMART---AVY IS EXTREME--And will still be EXTREME on saturday as well.

H20SKE...

Live to ride another day!!

My home is good ole GC....love that place! except for the click clicks And your right, Lake Ann and that whole area give me the willies Have seen way to many huge slides and avalanches in that area go right across the road!!!!

 

[blindman]

vooodooo

guess it's workin purrrty good...

ever since fordy got the old polaris poster on his "home" we been gettin some good snow

 

[MOONMAN]

guess it's workin purrrty good...

ever since fordy got the old polaris poster on his "home" we been gettin some good snow

It would be cool to go up to GC with a shovel and hang the fordy doll from the rear-view mirror of the pornvan!

 

[H20SKE]

Updated--still Closed At Least Through The Night

Have you ever seen the state close the pass this long before??

Ya think AVY danger is EXTREME!!

Everyone ride smart!!!

Temperature: 26ºF / -3ºC
Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed
Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed
Conditions & Weather:
Update I-90 Snoqualmie Pass will remain closed through the night. Avalanche control efforts will resume at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow with the hope that the pass will be open Wednesday. // Snowing hard
Updated: 11:23 PM, Jan 29, 2008
This is the most current info available
and is promptly updated when conditions change.




H20SKE...

 

[yammadog]

seems to me they closed it for like a week once back in 98 or 99....anyone know anywhere to get stats on something like this?

 

[BIG-D]

Temperature: 26ºF / -3ºC


Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed


Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed


Conditions & Weather:
Update I-90 Snoqualmie Pass will remain closed through the night. Avalanche control efforts resumed at 4:30 a.m. this morning with the hope that the pass will be open later today. // Snowing, hard at times

Still coming down like they forcasted. It is crazy deep so will everyone be safe because I don't want the news to have another snowmobiler story.

BIG-D...

 

[Fordman]

It was closed for 5 days back then. Saturday morning at 6am is when it will open again.

 

[H20SKE]

It was closed for 5 days back then. Saturday morning at 6am is when it will open again.

The funny thing is---Fordman might be right


They will open it this afternoon for a couple hours then slam it shut agian tonight. The snow coming down like it is and what they forecast for tonight--the nes snow still is not hooking up--it will continue to sluff/Avy.

Hope to just get up on the flats by the weekend!!

H20SKE...

 

[smittys800]

Anybody travel White pass in these condidtions?
Headin to Idaho Tommorrow, and if I-90 is still closed, figured we could head that way.
Smitty

 

[Soccerd6]

Know before ya go.........

http://www.nwac.us/~nwac/products/SABSAS

SPECIAL AVALANCHE STATEMENT FOR THE OLYMPICS WASHINGTON CASCADES
AND MT HOOD AREA
NORTHWEST WEATHER AND AVALANCHE CENTER SEATTLE WASHINGTON
900 AM PST WED JAN 30 2008

This statement applies to back country avalanche terrain below
7000 feet and does not apply to highways or operating ski areas.

OLYMPICS-
WEST SLOPES NORTH CASCADES AND PASSES-
WEST SLOPES CENTRAL CASCADES AND PASSES-
SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES-
EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-
EAST SLOPES CENTRAL CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
EAST SLOPES SOUTHERN CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
NORTH OREGON CASCADES-

900 AM PST WED JAN 30 2008

...AVALANCHE WARNING CONTINUES THURSDAY FOR THE OLYMPICS,
WASHINGTON CASCADES, AND MT HOOD AREA...

More heavy slightly denser snow is expected Wednesday night
and Thursday. Another avalanche cycle is expected Thursday.
Larger avalanches may step down to weak layers and sliding
surfaces formed during the fair weather in mid January. (Sd6 edit: two weeks of snow sliding down)

Natural or triggered avalanches should be seen in many
areas Thursday. We do not recommend back country travel
near avalanche terrain on Thursday.
This statement will be updated as warranted. Please see
www.nwac.us for details.