Kananaskis

Cooling temps and clearing skies for Monday. Approach terrain cautiously and inspect the bond of the new/old snow interface.

A road patrol along the spray had very limited visibility due to the stormy conditions.

One size 2 wind slab on Mt. invincible was observed through the clouds and pin wheeling on road side steep banks.

15-25 cm of snow has fallen since Saturday night. This has come in very warm and has fallen on a already moist upper snowpack. below this the variety of surfaces include sun crusts on solar and hard pressed surfaces elsewhere. Strong to extreme winds continue to build wind slabs at treeline and above, the snowpack is rapidly settling.

Sunday: Warm rain/snow on the spray, heavy at times. At lower elevations the temperature finally dropped below 0° at 14:00 at Mud lake weather station.

Monday: Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries. A day time high of -14 with 25-35 km/h West winds at ridge top. Freezing level back down at valley bottom.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Expect slab conditions to change drastically as you move into wind-exposed terrain.
• Avoid steep terrain, including convex rolls, or areas with a thin, rocky, or variable snowpack.