Avalanche Center Reports To Improve

Sun., Dec. 24, 2000

From Staff

The U.S. Forest Service has installed a remote monitor station to improve the Payette Avalanche Center’s snow reports for backcountry skiers and other recreationists in west-central Idaho.

The center is beginning its second year of operation as the research and reporting office for Valley County. It has a new weather station and a digital recorder that can handle six telephone lines, as well as a place on the Payette National Forest’s Internet site.

Two weeks ago, the employees skied up to Granite Mountain Lookout in the West Mountain chain to install the remote station the center was able to buy through a grant from the National Avalanche Center in the Sun Valley area.

The center will gather snow reports not only themselves, but also from the guides of the Brundage catskiing program and the Valley County Search and Rescue.

Snow condition advisories will be issued twice a week, as well as a separate one for West Mountain.

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