Northeast Oregon

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Weather Forecast for Salt Creek Summit (Elev. 6000 ft.)

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Partly Sunny
Partly Sunny
High Temperature: 54 °F
Low Temperature: 33 °F

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Partly Sunny
Partly Sunny
High Temperature: 60 °F
Low Temperature: 37 °F

Winter Safety Information

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Current Condition Bulletin

April 12, 2012

 

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Caution

Safe backcountry travel requires preparation, planning, and experience. This website provides you some planning tools, but does not attempt to provide you with all the information required. If you travel in the winter backcountry, we strongly urge you to consider advanced education. Please see our education page for infomation on local opportunities.

WAC News

End of Season Wrap Up
May 10, 2012: As we welcome the new season that brings with it warm temperatures and sunny days, we also reflect on another great winter for WAC. While the winter started off a little slow in terms of snowfall, we ended up with a season pretty much right at normal. After the spectacular spring snows last year, it seams as if our nice white peaks are disappearing fast. 
 
Recently we met with staff from the Forest Supervisors office in Baker City, providing an update on WAC's activity for the season. We now operate 2 high elevation weather stations, we greatly expanded our educational outreach, and provided assistance and education to special events and groups. Our web site featured a weekly condition bulletin for the northern Wallowas, and a portal for everyone to share backcountry reports and observations. 
 
We received several detailed comments from our users. Your message was clear - you want a simple, standardized danger rating included in our bulletins. Site traffic also indicates the popularity of our user-submitted reports page. 
 
Going forward, will continue to pursue a course that brings you the danger scales in a format used by just about every avalanche center in North America. A danger rating was always in the plans, however we need the support of the Forest Service to make that happen. Tight and shrinking budgets make this especially challenging, however we continue to pursue a number of avenues to bring this critical safety component to the region.