A big rise in hazard on Thursday due to the sunny and warm conditions. Start early and finish early.
The recent storm snow is mostly bonding well on the temperature and sun crusts, but watch for pockets of wind slab in wind prone areas.
Avoid exposure to cornices as they will be fragile due to intense solar radiation over the next couple days.
Intense solar radiation and warm temps on Thursday will lead to significant loose wet activity. These avalanches could entrain a fair amount of snow and run far on the buried crusts.
Thursday will bring a big warmup with daytime highs around +3C at Treeline elevations. It will be mostly sunny with light SW winds. Friday will be similar, but a bit windier.
Nothing new today.
An average of 20cm of recent storm snow is found at Treeline, which remains dry and low density on polar aspects, and turning moist on solar aspects at lower elevations. The storm snow appears well bonded to the layers below, but isolated pockets of wind slab are found in the Alpine. With the expected sunny and warm conditions on Thursday all solar aspects and lower elevation terrain will experience significant moist snow conditions.
