Look for areas of soft snow, sheltered from the wind to ride.Watch for signs of instability like shooting cracks when entering wind affected terrain.
New snow may build more reactive deposits. This could cause slabs to fail on the early December crust and facets producing larger avalanches.Watch for hollow or 'drum like' sounding snow near ridgelines and mid slope rollovers.
No new avalanches have been recently reported.
If you are out in the backcountry consider submitting your observations to the MIN.
20 to 40 cm of new snow now hides the old heavily wind affected snow, with some slopes stripped from recent strong southerly winds.
In sheltered areas, a crust from early December sits below 20 to 80 cm of settling snow. This layer has produced avalanche activity and shown reactivity on testing. However, observations are limited in this region and the reactivity or distribution of this is not well understood.
There are no current deeper layers of concern.
Data is very limited in this region, please submit MIN reports if you head into the mountains. Any data or photos are helpful!
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy with up to 5 cm of snow. 20 to 40 km/h south ridgetop winds. Treeline temperature -6 °C.
Friday
Partly cloudy. 20 to 30 km/h west ridgetop winds. Treeline temperature -5 °C.
Saturday
Mix of sun and cloud with flurries. 10 to 20 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -7 °C.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy with up to 3 cm of snow. 10 to 20 km/h west ridgetop winds. Treeline temperature -6 °C.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
