Try approaching your descent line from the top, knowing there may be a windslab from the previous storm. Bold up-tracks heading straight up the guts of a slope are challenging the main avalanche problem from the wrong direction.
Weather Forecast
Today mainly cloudy with no precipitation, an alpine high of -10*C, freezing level to 900m and light winds. No significant precipitation for the remainder of the week. A high pressure ridge is blocking any major weather systems and sending them to the Yukon.
Snowpack Summary
Storm snow is settling and bonding to the mid-January interface. Cool night time temps have aided in extracting slab properties out of the new snow, leaving it right side up. Stability tests produced mod-hard results with resistant to broken characteristics. Dec 18th interface is buried 1m and unreactive to stability tests.
Avalanche Summary
Natural avalanche activity has eased off in the last couple of days. No new avalanches were observed in the highway corridor yesterday. Small loose point releases were observed from steep easterly aspects above Teddy Bear Trees.
Problems
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.