A healthy dose of new snow will make for good skiing, especially in the early hours. Be prepared to manage the cycle of small loose wet avalanches during the heat of the day.
Weather Forecast
Tuesday: Sunny. Ridgetop wind light SW (trending moderate in the evening). Treeline temps, High -4, Low -8.Wednesday: Sunny. Ridgetop wind moderate-strong SW. Treeline temps, High 1, Low -4.Thursday: Mostly Sunny. Ridgetop wind mod-strong SW. Treeline temps, High 3, Low 1.
Snowpack Summary
An up-slope event has evenly distributed up to 25cm of new snow through our the park. This overlies old crusty surfaces, bare ground, and isolated pockets of wind slab from Sundays strong-extreme south winds. Below this the mid snowpack is well settled and strong. Basal facets likely persist in some areas, but have been unreactive since mid-March.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches have been observed or reported.
Confidence
Due to the number of field observations
Problems
Loose Wet
Loose Wet avalanches are the release of wet unconsolidated snow or slush. These avalanches typically occur within layers of wet snow near the surface of the snowpack, but they may quickly gouge into lower snowpack layers. Like Loose Dry Avalanches, they start at a point and entrain snow as they move downhill, forming a fan-shaped avalanche. Other names for loose-wet avalanches include point-release avalanches or sluffs. Loose Wet avalanches can trigger slab avalanches that break into deeper snow layers.
Wind Slabs
Wind Slab avalanches are the release of a cohesive layer of snow (a slab) formed by the wind. Wind typically transports snow from the upwind sides of terrain features and deposits snow on the downwind side. Wind slabs are often smooth and rounded and sometimes sound hollow, and can range from soft to hard. Wind slabs that form over a persistent weak layer (surface hoar, depth hoar, or near-surface facets) may be termed Persistent Slabs or may develop into Persistent Slabs.