Avalanche Forecast

Limited reporting from the field, but Sunday's avalanche were small (mostly size 1, one size 2) and included loose dry (sluffs) and windslabs,

Upper Snowpack: This weekend's storm generally added 10 to 20 cm to the snowpack with the deep snow holes touching 30 cm.

Lower Snowpack: It's a thin cold early season story of mostly soft facets (in representative places that are out of the wind near treeline)

Noteworthy Weakness: A surface hoar/sun crust combination from mid-November releasing easily and propagating in snowpack tests.

In the alpine, snowpack depths range from 50-150 cm. At treeline there is around 50-100 cm. Below treeline is thin and scratchy. At all elevations there are many early season hazards like rocks and stumps.

Monday Night

Dry, -20C style cold, light wind

Tuesday

Dry, sunny in the morning but increasing cloudiness late in the day, -15 to -20 C, light wind but increasing late in the day from the southwest

Weak disturbance means overcast, 5 to 15 cm snow, light to mod southwest wind, warming temps to around -10 C.

Mixed day with nil to 5 cm of snow, temps around -10 C, light southwest wind.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Dial back your terrain choices if you are seeing more than 30 cm of new snow.
• Start on smaller terrain features and gather information before committing to bigger terrain.
• Watch for newly formed and reactive wind slabs as you transition into wind affected terrain.