Uintas Conditions 2015

I decided to take a field trip today.
I drove to Provo River Falls. There is little to no snow the whole way there. There's a sign up saying the road is closed but the gate is open so you can drive thru. I saw a couple cars coming the other direction past the gate, one was a Highway Patrol Trooper.
On the way back I passed a couple other cars...so I wasn't the only curious one.
Here are some photos:


This is at the gate
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This is the first snow on the road, and it's just before Provo River Falls.
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Here's what it looks like at the falls.
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And here's looking down stream.
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That's as far as I went.
 
I knew that snow wouldn't last long on the road.
 
That's crazy low, but the storm moving over has already started adding to the base up at Bald Mountain Pass. Look's like about two inches today, with more possible tomorrow.

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Of course, if it warms enough to turn this snow into rain, the rain could quickly wipe out any accumulated snow.
 
Almost 38 inches now at the pass and climbing. UDOT is clearing slush from Kamas to the gate right now.

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Pretty insane 24 hours in the eastern Uintas, be interesting to see how quick it melts with the warm week ahead.

I checked trial lake Snotel it hasn't been reading the last 24 hours. Not sure what's up.
 
Hey I just found that UDOT installed a weather station that has a real-time camera at Bald Mtn Pass. Still mucho snow but a great resource to check frequently. This may have been available before but I just found it. There are similar stations and cameras at most of our other seasonally closed road passes too. Great!

http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?product=roads&stn=utbmp
 
langutah said:
Hey I just found that UDOT installed a weather station that has a real-time camera at Bald Mtn Pass. Still mucho snow but a great resource to check frequently. This may have been available before but I just found it. There are similar stations and cameras at most of our other seasonally closed road passes too. Great!

http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?product=roads&stn=utbmp
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That's what my screen caps above are from. Sorry for posting a link.
 
It's not taking long for last weekend's snow to disappear from Bald Mountain Pass. UDOT plans to open SR65 (East Canyon/Big Mountain Pass) on Friday. SR150 is usually just a few weeks behind that.

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Aerial shot today from my brother. Murdoch, Bald and Reid are just below center of the frame. Notch, Haystack and Watson are right of frame. Duchesne River gorge is on the left.

Most of the lakes are still iced. Snow cover remains on SR150 to about the Crystal Lake trailhead turn-off.

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ashergrey said:
Aerial shot today from my brother. Murdoch, Bald and Reid are just below center of the frame. Notch, Haystack and Watson are right of frame. Duchesne River gorge is on the left.

Most of the lakes are still iced. Snow cover remains on SR150 to about the Crystal Lake trailhead turn-off.

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That is an awesome shot!
 
This is not an awesome shot, but it's informative… give me a break as I was shooting through the windshield of a moving car.

A-1 from SR150 south of Evanston as of today. It's blurry but you can see Hayden peeking up from behind.

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Well I'm happy to say my May 10th prediction of zero snow at Trial Lake snotel was a bad one. Hooray for stormy weather. And another stormy weekend coming up. Sure wish the storms would hit mid-week though. Kinda messing up my plans. :mad:

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My parents headed up this past weekend. They said they got almost all the way to Trial Lake before they hit snow on the road. They walked up to Trial lake and said it was still iced over, but not much snow.
 
I am itching to get an overnighter in the uintas. Snotel Trial lake says only about 14 inches of snow. I called the Kamas ranger station the other day and they said the road was plowed as far as the Trial Lake turnoff. Not sure about coming in from the other side. Anyone been up and willing to share conditions? I am thinking some of the lower elevation stuff on the south side might be open or will be soon??
 
MtnMatt said:
I am itching to get an overnighter in the uintas. Snotel Trial lake says only about 14 inches of snow. I called the Kamas ranger station the other day and they said the road was plowed as far as the Trial Lake turnoff. Not sure about coming in from the other side. Anyone been up and willing to share conditions? I am thinking some of the lower elevation stuff on the south side might be open or will be soon??
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I saw some pics on facebook the other day of a kid who snowshoed up around wall lake. It was before that last storm but I think we're probably close now to pre-storm levels. There was a lot of snow but plenty of dry ground to camp on if you could get through the drifts.

EDIT: Oh, I didn't realize this you'd started a new thread on this. I'm going to merge it with the main Uintas Conditions 2015 thread. Lots of info there (now here), @MtnMatt.
 
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