Avalanche Forecast

The general forecast is for the warm temp's to continue into the weekend, with freezing levels dropping to 1800m by later Saturday. Moisture arriving from the SW may bring 10-15cm of snow to the alpine and tree-line elevations by the end of Sunday, then unsettled conditions into next week.

An average depth of 1 to 1.5m of snow can be found in the alpine above 2200m, with crusts present on all but N and E aspects. At tree-line, 5-10cm of moist snow lie on variable crusts which stitch together a moist snowpack. Below that, the snowpack rapidly dwindles to near-zero values in the valley bottom.

No new avalanches were observed in the last 48 hours in the Rogers Pass highway corridor. In the Asulkan valley on Tuesday, Nov 8, there were reports of loose wet slides from solar aspects to size 1.