Spring is here; start and finish your day early before the hazard rises.
Weather Forecast
Sunny today, some clouds developing this afternoon, and light winds from the North. Alpine temperatures will go above zero again today, and the freezing level will push above 2400m. Finally a change in the weather starting tomorrow; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are each forecasted to receive 5cm a day, with the FL slowly dropping to 1500m.
Snowpack Summary
The spring melt freeze cycle continues. We have another strong surface crust this morning, expect it to break down this afternoon. The snowpack is isothermal in thin snowpack areas BTL, the mid and lower snow pack is strong at tree line and above, where the HS is over 2m. Dry snow can still be found on Northerly aspects in the high alpine.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches were observed in the highway corridor, or reported from the backcountry in the past three days. Small loose avalanches are possible on steep solar aspects with the strong solar input. last week numerous glide cracks were opening up and failing at and below treeline, on solar aspects.
Problems
Loose Wet
Loose Wet avalanches are the release of wet unconsolidated snow or slush. These avalanches typically occur within layers of wet snow near the surface of the snowpack, but they may quickly gouge into lower snowpack layers. Like Loose Dry Avalanches, they start at a point and entrain snow as they move downhill, forming a fan-shaped avalanche. Other names for loose-wet avalanches include point-release avalanches or sluffs. Loose Wet avalanches can trigger slab avalanches that break into deeper snow layers.