Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Glacier.
Weather Forecast
Mainly cloudy today with alpine high around -6 deg. A weak low pressure system should bring up to 5cm of snow tonight. By Monday afternoon an arctic front will make it's way south bringing more sunshine, cool temperatures and light northerly wind with freezing levels staying close to valley bottom. More light snowfall is expected on Thursday.
Snowpack Summary
Surface conditions include surface hoar, faceting snow, sun crust on South aspects, wind crust, and pockets of soft snow and slab in isolated locations and hard crust bellow 2000m. Feb 18 surface hoar down 20cm, variable distribution to 2200m. Feb 14 crust down 20-25, up to 10cm thick. Persistent weak layers down 1-1.5m are stubborn to trigger.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches were observed yesterday. Recent natural avalanche activity has been limited to small skier triggered avalanches on isolated wind slabs and sun triggered loose avalanches on steep solar aspects.
Confidence
Avalanche Problems
Persistent Slabs
Aspects: All aspects.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood: Unlikely
Expected Size: 3 - 4
Wind Slabs
Aspects: All aspects.
Elevations: Alpine.
Likelihood: Unlikely - Possible
Expected Size: 1 - 2