Cornices
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Unlikely
- Tamaño
- 1
Warming air temperatures at the upper elevations are expected to produce a few inches of surface wet snow as daytime warming progresses. Any areas of wet snow instability that form today are expected to remain minimal and not pose a significant threat to backcountry travelers. Areas around exposed rocks and bushes may become full depth wet snow. These areas already have well established free water drainage and are not expected to pose much of an instability issue.
On northerly aspects the weak layer of generally poorly developed near crust facets that exists below the uppermost rain crust within the snowpack warrants continued monitoring. Finding an area where this weak layer is capped by a slab with the proper characteristics for a slab avalanche to occur remains highly unlikely. As evidenced by the recent small avalanche on Castle Peak, it is not an impossibility. Do not allow this dry spell to generate complacency for best practice travel techniques in and around avalanche terrain.