Island Park Riding Conditions 2017/18

[christopher]

Picked up about 10" at the parking lots Thursday night and Friday. Snow started out wet N heavy, changed to a light powder overnight. A little bit of wind, yesterday, but not too bad, probably dont need to tell anyone about the Avy danger up high. Another foot or so and we'll be back to somewhat normal up here, forecast looks promising for the upcoming week...

How we looking for tomorrow?>

 

[christopher]

Detailed Forecast


This Afternoon
A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 24. South southwest wind 8 to 11 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Tonight
A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 5. Wind chill values as low as -10. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Saturday
Snow. High near 29. Wind chill values as low as -14. South southwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.


Special Weather Statement


Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
434 AM MST Fri Jan 26 2018 IDZ018-019-023-025-031-032-262200-
Sawtooth Mountains-Upper Snake Highlands-Caribou Highlands- Wasatch Mountains/Idaho Portion-Big and Little Wood River Region- Lost River/Pahsimeroi-

Including the cities of Stanley, Clayton, St. Anthony, Ashton, Island Park, Driggs, Victor, Henry, Soda Springs, Downey, Lava Hot Springs, Montpelier, Hailey, Ketchum, Bellevue, Arco, Challis, and Mackay

434 AM MST Fri Jan 26 2018 ...

Snow Expected Saturday and Saturday Night with Difficult Travel Conditions Possible...

A moist Pacific storm system is expected to begin to spread Snow across the Sawtooths and surrounding Mountains and Valleys Saturday morning.

Snow is then expected to spread across the Island Park area later Saturday morning and then spread southward along the Wyoming border through the day Saturday.

The Snow may be heavy at times on Saturday, especially for Mountain Passes such as Banner and Galena Summit and around the Island Park vicinity where Snow accumulations may exceed six inches.

Up a foot of Snow is possible for elevations above 7000 feet elevation along the Wyoming Border and for elevations above 8000 feet in the Sawtooths.

The Snow is expected to gradually diminish Saturday night. Continue to monitor the latest forecasts by visiting weather.gov/pocatello.

Persons may also monitor the latest forecasts and weather messages by following the National Weather Service Pocatello on Social Media.

 

[wwracer]

Currently light snow and about 25* We picked up about three inches yesterday. Saturday and Sunday, calling for 4-8 visibility will probably be challenging this weekend. If we get that much it'll push us over the three ft. mark, here at La Casa

 

[christopher]

Currently light snow and about 25* We picked up about three inches yesterday. Saturday and Sunday, calling for 4-8 visibility will probably be challenging this weekend. If we get that much it'll push us over the three ft. mark, here at La Casa

Is there a missing comma in that sentence?

Calling for 4-8 inches, Visibility will probably be challenging??

 

[wwracer]

Is there a missing comma in that sentence?

Calling for 4-8 inches, Visibility will probably be challenging??

Yeah.. supposed to look just like that.

 

[CATDIESELPOWER]

How's it looking now WW? I like your snow gauge pictures, thanks for the updates and posting the pics.

 

[wwracer]

Snowin' like a mofo... I'll update the gauge in the AM

 

[wwracer]

Here ya go

 

[CATDIESELPOWER]

Thanks WW!! Looking pretty good now.

 

[millnoff]

I was out there the last 9 days. Was very easy to find good untracked riding in safeish areas. Snowed like every other day and seemed to just a hair below average for this time of year. Go get it guys!

 

[Cerialsledder]

Praying that Feb 11th-16th will be decent. 12 Days to go!!!

 

[burnzie]

Be out there on Saturday 2/3/18,hopefully my sled will be dun (spun a main bearing, under warranty, dealer said it should be dun Wednesday.

 

[silverram323]

Be out there on Saturday 2/3/18,hopefully my sled will be dun (spun a main bearing, under warranty, dealer said it should be dun Wednesday.

Any word on the sled? I heard from roger you burned it up.
Kevin


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[burnzie]

Any word on the sled? I heard from roger you burned it up.
Kevin


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they said It should be dun on Wednesday, I took Thursday off also so I will pick it up hopefully then, regardless I'll see you on Thursday night.

 

[wwracer]

Praying that Feb 11th-16th will be decent. 12 Days to go!!!

I don't think you'll have to worry. This guy was still standing on snow after this dig out...

 

[880summitxrs]

Can you still ride the Jefferson mnt side? Heard today the sheriff's dept closed it to all riding. Is the snowpack really that horrible?

 

[wwracer]

Yes and Yes

 

[880summitxrs]

Heading out the week of valentine's day, so I guess riding that side is out of the question then. Hell for that matter anything remotely steep sounds off limits no matter wear you're at then. Sucks

 

[christopher]

Should be snowing right now.

 

[wwracer]

A quick update on conditions here. The past week has been fairly warm, we picked up a few inches of inches of snow and ice pellets over the week. Pretty stale over all,, not what we would want to see, but for folks coming from the East/Midwest well, they'll get there fill. Hero snow everywhere, and the trail grooming is making for fast trail riding... if that's your thing