Kootenay Boundary

Avalanche danger can rise very quickly with warming and solar radiation. Be aware of changing conditions and overhead hazards. Terrain choices and timing can be critical.

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Tonight and Monday: The ridge of high pressure bringing clear and warm conditions remains over the province. Clouds will start building as a low pressure system approaches during the day. Expect freezing levels to be near 2500 m and light North West winds. Tuesday: A trace of precipitation is forecasted with light North West winds, freezing levels going from 1200 m at night and rising to 1500 m during the day.  Wednesday: Mainly cloudy, a possibility of light precipitation, freezing levels around 1700 m.

No new avalanches reported.

Melt-freeze cycles has created a hard crust at the surface in most places. During the day, this crust is broken down by warm temperatures and solar radiation on all aspects up to around 2200 m and above this elevation on solar aspects. Snow stability will decrease quite rapidly as the day progresses tomorrow, increasing the chance of cornice fall and wet loose avalanches. The late January/early February persistent weak layer is deeply buried, and has not produced avalanches in this region for some time now. However, tomorrow's intense warming and solar radiation could wake up the deep weak layer in isolated areas, like on higher alpine slopes that have not gone through such a heat shock. I suspect this would be more the case in the Northern part of the region.