Avalanche Forecast

Avoid steep unsupported terrain and all steep terrain when you find the snow is saturated with moisture during the coming weather event. Give cornices a wide berth, when travelling above and below them.

A well settled snow-pack has produced with ski testing some small surface instabilities in isolated steep terrain.

Upper snow-pack remains low density with the mid and lower snow pack well settled and bonded. Previous wind slab instabilities have begun to settle and are bonding well.

Surface: new low density snow. Upper: well settled. Mid: well settled with a noted nonreactive crust. Lower: well settled.

Light snowfall, light wind and temperatures continuing to trend to cool have promoted settlement and stability over the past forecast period.

A strong westerly flow will bring to the forecast area rapidly rising freezing levels. Expect temperatures in the alpine to be warm with the freezing level reaching above 2200 meters. Precipitation will initially begin on Friday as snow becoming heavy rain by mid day and continuing as rain for the evening and well into Saturday. Following this storm relief will come in the form of an arctic high pressure bringing cooling temperatures and clearing sky on Sunday.