Well there is some snow forecast for the weekend! Not alot, but its something! Not much is changing out there at this time. Hard wind slabs and deep persistent slabs dominate the landscape.
Just as you transition from treeline into the alpine watch for wind slabs. Lee and cross-loaded features are the main areas of concern.
This problem will be with us all season. At higher elevations there is more concern that these deep persistent weak layers could be human triggerable.
Nothing new observed in the last couple of days.
Strong winds have stripped all available snow and left hard slabs and scoured to ground where exposed. The early December rain crust is still present down about 30 cm but is starting to show signs of breaking down in valley bottom areas. Weak basal facets and depth hoar complete the lower snowpack. Overall conditions more closely resemble early November as opposed to Early January!
Temperatures will be around -8C on Wednesday with light winds out of the SW. Unfortunately, no new snow is in the forecast......
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
