Be cautious transitioning into wind-affected terrain, wind slabs may be on all aspects.
Varied wind direction is building and reshaping cornices, be sure to give them a wide berth.
Wind direction has varied in the past few days, creating wind slabs on multiple aspects. Recent outflow winds have built reactive slabs on south aspects.
On Thursday, there were reports of natural, skier triggered, and remote triggered size 1 to 1.5 wind slab avalanches running on the recently faceted surface snow in the Hurley.
Over the past week, several, small wind slab and dry loose avalanches have been observed in the region. These avalanches were triggered naturally and by skiers in steep terrain on a variety of aspects.
10 to 20 cm of recent snow that arrived with moderate to strong southwest wind has been redistributed by outflow winds as low as 1900 m. This snow is rapidly faceting in the cold temperatures. This snow overlies a layer of surface hoar on sheltered features.
20 to 40 cm sits over the early February crust that is thin and breakable on northerly aspects to ~2300 m and thick on southerly aspects.
A widespread crust and facet layer from late January is buried 30 to 80 cm deep.
The mid and lower snowpack is generally well settled and strong.
Friday Night
Partly cloudy. 2 cm of snow. 20 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -11 °C.
Saturday
Mix of sun and clouds. 2 to 4 cm of snow. 30 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -9 °C.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy. 1 to 10 cm of snow. 60 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperture -6 °C.
Monday
Mix of sun and clouds. 5 to 10 cm of snow. 40 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -6 °C.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
