Avalanche Forecast

Alpine temperatures between -12 and -8 C for Sunday and light gusting moderate Westerly winds.  Eastern regions could see valley bottom afternoon highs in the -3C range.  Some minor snow is currently forecast starting Monday night. 

Lots of hard wind slabs at treeline and above from a variety of wind directions over the past while, most notably N winds from the arctic air. This has produced a reverse loading pattern in many locations. These hard slabs in many starting zone areas overly a weak, faceted snowpack with numerous instabilities in the lower half of the snowpack.

There was a cornice triggered size 2.5 off of a SE aspect at 2800m on Cascade Mountain Friday afternoon. It was hard to tell the bed surface but looked to be over a meter deep.  Another size 2.5 with explosives on an ESE aspect to ground at Sunshine. Other similar avalanches initiated by large triggers have been noted over the last few days.