Kananaskis

With 50cm of new snow, we are not currently seeing much avalanche reactivity. Continue to observe and adjust if you notice an increase in natural avalanche activity.

Monday night produced an additional 25cm. Excellent ski quality is back once again, inspect the bond of the new snow, old snow interface and allow the snowpack time to adjust to the new load.

Field teams in the black prince zone today.

Overall very limited visibility throughout the day.

1 small storm slab from steep SE facing terrain at TL, otherwise some loose dry from steep terrain and small skier controlled sluffs on steep 40° gully walls.

An additional 25cm of snow from Monday evening brings the total storm snow to 50cm along the South part of the spray, about half of that towards engadine area.

This snow has been relatively untouched by the winds at treeline and below. The alpine has been out of view, but suspect there to be isolated wind slabs in immediate lee features. This new snow is sitting on top of various old surfaces, Melt freeze crusts on solar aspects and hard wind pressed snow on polar aspects, the bond between the new snow and old snow seems to be pretty good at this time. Below these old surfaces are a generally well settled snowpack. Previous problems in the snowpack such as the Jan surface hoar layer should be dug to and see if it exists where you choose to ski.

Wednesday will see mostly cloudy ski's with the odd sunny period. Day time high of -11.

The winds over tuesday night will increase to the Moderate range out of the SW, But will weaken right down during the day Very light N wind.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Pay attention to the wind; once it starts to blow, sensitive wind slabs are likely to form.
• Be aware of the potential for loose avalanches in steep terrain where snow hasn't formed a slab.
• Be careful with sluffing in steep terrain, especially above cliffs and terrain traps.