Avalanche Forecast

Good

Overnight and Saturday: Clear and cold overnight with light Northerly winds and no precipitation. Mostly sunny with a chance of valley cloud in the morning. Mix of sun and cloud with a chance of very light precipitation in the evening. Light Westerly winds during the day and freezing levels at about 500 metres.Sunday: Mix of sun and cloud with a chance of very light precipitation. Light Northwest winds and freezing levels at about 500 metres.Monday: Mostly sunny with light Northeast winds and alpine temperatures dropping to about -20 C.

No new avalanches reported.

There is about 5 cm of light dry new snow that has buried the melt-freeze crust that developed last week. The crust has been reported to be very hard with no foot penetration on solar aspects, and variable with a 10-15 cm foot penetration on shaded North aspects. There was widespread surface hoar at and below treeline before the new snow arrived, and can be found well preserved below the thin layer of new snow. Cold alpine temperatures are facetting the near surface snow at higher elevations. Some pockets of very soft slab have developed due to wind transported new snow. Deeply buried weak layers continue to exist, however the bridging effect of the re-frozen upper snowpack may reduce the likelihood of triggering.