{"id":31143,"date":"2017-01-08T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=31143"},"modified":"2017-01-08T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:46:48","slug":"sierra-avalanche-warning-in-effect-for-greater-lake-tahoe-area-including-ebbetts-pass-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=31143","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Avalanche Warning In Effect For Greater Lake Tahoe Area Including Ebbetts Pass Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truckee, CA&#8230;Natural and human <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A disturbance that initiates fracture within the weak layer causing an avalanche. In 90 percent of avalanche accidents, the victim or someone in the victims party triggers the avalanche.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/trigger\">triggered<\/a> <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A mass of snow sliding, tumbling, or flowing down an inclined surface.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/avalanche\">avalanches<\/a> are certain today due to the significant amount of rain on snow expected below 9300 ft. and heavy wet snow <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"The addition of weight on top of a snowpack, usually from precipitation, wind drifting, or a person.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/loading\">loading<\/a> above 9000 ft. Large, deep, destructive <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"An avalanche caused by snow losing its strength after becoming damp, moist or saturated with water.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/wet-snow-avalanche\">wet slab<\/a>, <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"Avalanches that break deeply into old weak layers of snow that formed some time ago.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/deep-slab-avalanche\">deep slab<\/a>, and <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A cohesive layer of snow formed when wind deposits snow onto leeward terrain. Wind slabs are often smooth and rounded and sometimes sound hollow.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/wind-slab\">wind slab<\/a> <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A mass of snow sliding, tumbling, or flowing down an inclined surface.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/avalanche\">avalanches<\/a> will occur today as well as loose wet <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A mass of snow sliding, tumbling, or flowing down an inclined surface.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/avalanche\">avalanches<\/a>. <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A mass of snow sliding, tumbling, or flowing down an inclined surface.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/avalanche\">Avalanches<\/a> could run farther than expected and involve almost the entire snowpack. Avoid travel in or near <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"A mass of snow sliding, tumbling, or flowing down an inclined surface.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/avalanche\">avalanche<\/a> terrain or <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"The portion of an avalanche path where the debris typically comes to rest.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/runout-zone\">runout<\/a> zones today. <a class=\"lexicon-term\" title=\"Avoid all avalanche terrain. Natural and human triggered avalanches certain. Large to very large avalanches in many areas.\n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/avalanche-terms\/extreme-danger\">EXTREME avalanche danger<\/a> exists at all elevations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraavalanchecenter.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM.jpg 410w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event:\tAvalanche Warning<br \/>\nAlert:<br \/>\nTHE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE FOREST<br \/>\nSERVICE SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER.<br \/>\nTHE FOREST SERVICE SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER HAS CONTINUED A<br \/>\nBACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE WARNING. <\/p>\n<p>* TIMING&#8230;IN EFFECT THROUGH AT LEAST 7 AM MONDAY. <\/p>\n<p>* AFFECTED AREA&#8230;FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA<br \/>\nAND NEVADA, FROM YUBA PASS TO EBBETTS PASS, INCLUDING THE LAKE<br \/>\nTAHOE BASIN. <\/p>\n<p>* AVALANCHE DANGER&#8230;EXTREME. <\/p>\n<p>* REASON\/IMPACTS&#8230;NATURAL AND HUMAN TRIGGERED AVALANCHES ARE<br \/>\nCERTAIN TODAY DUE TO THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RAIN AND SNOW<br \/>\nEXPECTED BELOW 9300 FEET AND HEAVY WET SNOW LOADING ABOVE 9000<br \/>\nFEET. LARGE, DEEP, DESTRUCTIVE WET SLAB, DEEP SLAB, AND WIND<br \/>\nSLAB AVALANCHES WILL OCCUR TODAY AS WELL AS LOOSE WET<br \/>\nAVALANCHES. AVALANCHES COULD RUN FARTHER THAN EXPECTED AND<br \/>\nINVOLVE ALMOST THE ENTIRE SNOWPACK. AVOID TRAVEL IN OR NEAR<br \/>\nAVALANCHE TERRAIN OR RUNOUT ZONES TODAY. EXTREME AVALANCHE<br \/>\nDANGER EXISTS AT ALL ELEVATIONS.<br \/>\nPRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>AVALANCHES MAY RUN LONG DISTANCES, INTO FLAT AREAS, AND CAN RUN<br \/>\nINTO MATURE FORESTS.<br \/>\nTRAVEL IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN IS NOT RECOMMENDED.<br \/>\nCONSULT WWW.SIERRAAVALANCHECENTER.ORG OR WWW.AVALANCHE.ORG FOR<br \/>\nMORE DETAILED INFORMATION.<br \/>\nSIMILAR AVALANCHE DANGER MAY EXIST AT LOCATIONS OUTSIDE THE<br \/>\nCOVERAGE AREA OF THIS OR ANY AVALANCHE CENTER.<br \/>\nInstructions:<br \/>\nTarget Area:<br \/>\nGreater Lake Tahoe Area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truckee, CA&#8230;Natural and human triggered avalanches are certain today due to the significant amount of rain on snow expected below 9300 ft. and heavy wet snow loading above 9000 ft. Large, deep, destructive wet slab, deep slab, and wind slab avalanches will occur today as well as loose wet avalanches. Avalanches could run farther than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-182017-73913-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}