Jasper

Low hazard doesn’t mean zero risk.
Ice climbers: pay attention to conditions high above you— even minor spindrift from steep cliffs can carry serious consequences.

Skiers: remember that even small avalanches can have major impacts in complex terrain.

High

• We are confident due to a stable weather pattern.

No new avalanches have been observed in the last few days.

Up to 5 cm of soft snow is covering various old surfaces: sun crust on solar aspects to mountain tops, melt freeze crust up to tree line on all other aspects, and wind affected snow in the alpine and exposed tree line.
End of January surface hoar is buried under 5- 10 cm of snow and is quite patchy in its presence in the region.
The rest of the snowpack is generally dense and well consolidated.

Friday

Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries. Precipitation: Trace.

Alpine temperature: High -6 °C. Ridge wind southwest: 15 km/h gusting to 45 km/h. Freezing level at valley bottom.

Flurries. Accumulation: 7 cm. Alpine temperature: Low -11 °C, High -7 °C. Mostly light ridge wind occasionally gusting to 35 km/h. Freezing level at valley bottom.

Cloudy with sunny periods. Precipitation: Nil. Alpine temperature: Low -16 °C, High -12 °C. Ridge wind west: 10-30 km/h. Freezing level at valley bottom.

• Be careful with wind-loaded pockets, especially near ridge crests and rollovers.