New snow amounts vary throughout the region, continue to assess and use good travel habits. Take extra care when transitioning into wind affected terrain.
This snow lands on a variety of surfaces including crust, surface hoar, or wind slab. On sheltered or northern aspects, there is potential to have the avalanche step down to deeper weak layers in the snowpack.
Over the weekend, explosives triggered several small storm and wind slab avalanches. There were reports of some of these stepping down to the January drought layer on north aspects.
Several dry loose avalanches in steep terrain were also reported.
New snow lands on up to 10 cm of wind affected snow that fell over the weekend. In sheltered terrain this new snow may overlie soft, faceted snow or surface hoar. In exposed terrain it will overlie a sun crust or wind-affected snow.
A weak layer that was buried at the end of January is down 30 to 80 cm in the snowpack. Depending on where you are, it'll be a combination of different crystals. With crusts on sunny slopes, sugary facets in most places, and surface hoar in sheltered spots.
The mid and lower snowpack is strong and bonded.
Wednesday Night
Cloudy with 5 to 10 mm of mixed precipitation. 20 to 50 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Freezing level falling to 1000 m.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy with 1 to 5 mm of mixed precipitation. 10 to 30 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Freezing level 1400 m.
Friday
Cloudy with up to 10 to 20 mm of mixed precipitation. 20 to 50 km/h south ridgetop wind. Freezing level 1600 m.
Saturday
Cloudy with up to 15 to 30 mm of mixed precipitation. 20 to 60 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Freezing level 1800 m.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
