Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Waterton Lakes.
A supportive melt freeze crust makes for some fun skiing above 1900m in spots. Travel is quite variable and can be treacherous below that elevation or outside the Cameron Lake region. Regular avalanche bulletins begin December 3rd.
Weather Forecast
Avalanche Canada's Mountain Weather Forecast is a great regional-scale resource for up-to-date weather information. Here you'll find snow amounts, freezing levels and other aspects of weather important to assessing winter conditions in the mountains.
SPOTWX is a good resource for local scale weather forecasts.
Snowpack Summary
At Cameron Lake- Approx. 20cm of soft snow sits over a thick melt freeze crust. The lower snowpack is well consolidated and bonding well to the November 6th rain crust in the limited areas we have been able to test so far. Average snow depth at 2000m is 100cm but shrinks to an average of 40cm below 1850m.
Most other areas are still below threshold.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches have been reported in the past 72 hours.
Confidence
Avalanche Problems
Wind Slabs
Surface snow is still soft as of Nov 21/22 weekend but the supportive crust that makes skiing possible may provide a bed surface for future wind slabs when the Waterton winds inevitably return.
- Be careful with wind loaded pockets, especially near ridge crests and roll-overs.
Aspects: North, North East, East, South East, North West.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood: Possible
Expected Size: 1 - 1.5