There's plenty of loose snow available for transport, and big winds are forecast for Friday and Saturday. This in conjunction with incoming snow will likely induce another avalanche cycle.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Fridays big story will be the forecasted alpine winds in the 70 - 90kmh range and rising temperatures in front of the next system. The Field area will see 10cm Friday and 30+cm by Saturday night. We expect another avalanche cycle given this forecast.
Snowpack Summary
40-80 cm of snow over the last seven days has overloaded 3 persistent weak layers of surface hoar and facets in the upper half of the snowpack: Jan 16 down 30-50cm; Jan 6 down 40-70cm; and Dec15 down 60-100+cm. A major avalanche cycle occurred Tuesday/Wednesday with avalanches running fall path on these layers and some stepping down even deeper.
Avalanche Summary
Natural activity has tapered slightly, but big results with explosives over the last few days to size 3.5 proves that these layers are prime for triggering. Some avalanches ran full path and put dust or debris on roads. Many slopes haven't slid yet, and any additional input (snow/wind/human) will overload the snowpack.
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