Kananaskis

A slight change in the weather pattern, finally!

Not much snow to speak of unfortunately, but atleast its change.

No new avalanches observed or reported today

Although there are windslabs out there, with no new snow and fetches being stripped dry, they have built as much as they can and are losing sensitivity at this point. Up to treeline, expect to encounter a rain crust down 20-30cm that formed in an early December storm. So far failures on this crust have been few, but as it develops we expect this layer to become a common bed surface for avalanches. A surface hoar layer is also found up to treeline beneath this crust that was producing moderate results in snowpack tests. Deeper in the snowpack a weak basal layer persists that was a thin melt freeze crust in some areas, or just weak basal facets and depth hoar. Thin areas are still common places to trigger these windslabs which are likely to propagate across a feature so keep this in mind as you travel.

Tuesday: Mainly a cloudy day with the possibility of flurries. Winds will be 30km/h out of the Southwest and the freezing levels down to 1700m.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Approach lee and cross-loaded slopes with caution.
• Avoid rock outcroppings, convexities, and anywhere the snowpack is thin and/or variable.
• Watch for areas of hard wind slab on alpine features.