Avalanche Forecast

Limited reporting from the field; no new avalanche reports on Saturday, This one from Friday is worth looking at. The location and size strike me as 'representative'. My concern is that with the facetted snowpack things could scrub to ground (deeper crown = bigger avalanche). Big shout out to J.Majorossy!

Upper Snowpack: This weekend's storm generally added 10 to 20 cm to the snowpack with the deep snow holes touching 30 cm.

Lower Snowpack: It's a thin cold early season story of mostly soft facets (in representative places that are out of the wind near treeline)

Noteworthy Weakness: A surface hoar/sun crust combination from mid-November releasing easily and propagating in snowpack tests.

In the alpine, snowpack depths range from 50-150 cm. At treeline there is around 50-100 cm. Below treeline is thin and scratchy. At all elevations there are many early season hazards like rocks and stumps.

Sunday Night

Clearing and cooling after teh weekend storm. Temps -10 to -15 C. Dry, Light west wind.

Monday

No Precip. Temps -10 to -15 C. Light northerly wind. Mix of sun and cloud.

Very similar to Monday

Light disturbance with overcast sky, light south west wind, trace to 10 cm of snow, and warming to around -5 to -10 C

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Dial back your terrain choices if you are seeing more than 30 cm of new snow.
• Start on smaller terrain features and gather information before committing to bigger terrain.
• Watch for newly formed and reactive wind slabs as you transition into wind affected terrain.