Good skiing on all aspects with 10-25cm of new snow. Travel conditions remain excellent, but the hazard has risen with the new snow and strong gusty winds. Use caution in steep terrain and wind loaded areas. See more
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Summary
Weather Forecast
Continued light snow with cool temperatures and gusty West winds are forecast for Sunday. Additional accumulations are forecast to be in the 5-10cm range at tree line. Monday remains cool and cloudy with a trace of new snow, freezing levels rising to 1900m and moderate West winds.
Snowpack Summary
10-25cm of new snow on Saturday with gusty SW winds has created wind slabs in lee areas above treeline. The new snow sits on a firm crust on solar aspects up to ridge crests and up to 2300m on N aspects. This buried crust provides a bridge over the facets which remain dormant at the base of the snowpack but are the main weakness in the snowpack.
Avalanche Summary
One small skier accidental on a N aspect on Mt Bell on Saturday in the new snow. Ski cutting produced numerous small wind slabs at the local ski areas. One recent size 2.5 failing on the basal facets in the Observation Peak area in the past 48hrs. Several recent cornice failures pulling out small slabs on the basal facets have been reported.
Confidence