Carefully evaluate your terrain choices, triggering storm slab avalanches remains a concern (especially at higher elevations).
A hard melt-freeze crust is found around 50 to 100 cm deep. The concern is where weak layers of surface hoar and/or faceted grains exist above the crust. For areas where either of these weak layers exists above the crust, the possibility remains that riders could trigger large avalanches.
10-30 cm of recent snow and strong southwest has formed storm slabs that may remain reactive to human triggering, especially at upper elevations and on freshly wind loaded slopes.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Cloudy with some isolated flurries and up to 5 cm of snow, moderate west wind, temperatures drop to -8 C.
MONDAY: Cloudy with isolated flurries and up to 5 cm of new snow, moderate southwest wind, temperatures around -4 C.
TUESDAY: 5-15 cm of snow overnight then light flurries during the day, moderate west wind, temperatures around -6 C.
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy with some isolated flurries, moderate southwest wind, temperatures around -4 C.
Several small skier triggered wind slab avalanche were reported over the weekend, but reports are limited. Based on the recent snowfall and wind, reactive storm slabs can likely still be found in steep in wind affected terrain. Triggering large persistent slab avalanches remains possible, even though few avalanches have been reported over the two weeks.
The weekend's storm brought 10-30 cm of heavy snow that should stabilize relatively quickly, but could still be a problem in steep and wind affected terrain.
Weak layers of feather surface hoar and/or sugary faceted grains may be found above a hard melt-freeze crust around 50 to 100 cm deep. The most recent avalanche activity on these layers were reported on Dec 23 and 25.
The base of the snowpack consists of faceted grains and a hard melt-freeze crust from early-November. The most recent activity on this layer was on Dec 23, and it remains to be seen if the recent storm has increased the reactivity of this layer.
