Look up! If cornices threaten your route adjust your plan. Cornice failures are hard to predict and are the likely trigger for very large avalanches. Although sporadic, these avalanches have been very destructive.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Today freezing levels will be around 2000m with flurries in the alpine and rain at treeline and below. Overnight freezing levels will drop and provide a weak overnight recovery. On Fri, freezing levels will rise back up to 1800m with up to 20cm expected in the alpine, and rain at lower elevations. Sat flurries continue with freezing levels at 1400m
Snowpack Summary
~30cm soft slab sits on a crust that exists everywhere other than N aspects above 1800m. Below 1900m this slab is being saturated by rain. The upper snowpack is a complex mix of crusts and spotty surface hoar layers. Deeper in the snowpack, old persistent weak layers that include crusts and facets have been reactive to large triggers like cornices
Avalanche Summary
High elevation N aspects hold dry snow that sluffs easily with skier traffic. Natural avalanche activity has been sporadic, but very large avalanches continue to be reported in the region daily. Cornices or smaller avalanches have been triggering deep persistent layers. At lower elevations, wet snow on crusts are expected to be reactive.
Confidence
Timing of incoming weather systems is uncertain