Kananaskis

Continued cooling in the snowpack will give a good crust recovery, watch for this crust to break down with daytime warming or direct solar input.

Nothing reported today.

More cloud cover on Saturday kept the solar effect minimal. In any case, the surface remains a mixed bag of crusts & old windslabs. The top 20cm is basically a tired and worn out snow pack from weeks of consistent sun/wind exposure. On the brighter side, most, if not all the trouble layers have been dealt with and as time goes on are ranking lower and lower on our list of avalanche problems. Surface hoar remains buried and unreactive down 40cm and the deeper Nov crust is a distant memory some 120cm down. Our stage is set for a pretty good refresh when we do get snow.

Forecast models are calling for anywhere between 0-8cm of snow by Sunday morning.

Sunday will see mostly cloudy skies and a day time high of -6

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Avoid steep, sun-exposed slopes when the air temperature is warm or when solar radiation is strong.