Avalanche Forecast

Good

Cloud developing overnight with freezing levels dropping down to about 1600 metres. Light precipitation (1-3 mm) starting in the early morning combined with moderate to strong southwest winds. Freezing levels rising up to about 2000 metres during the day. Light precipitation overnight and Thursday morning resulting in 5-10 cm of new snow above about 1600 metres. Friday is expected to be very warm with clearing skies as the high pressure ridge re-builds.

One report of a skier triggered windslab size 1.5 on a northeast aspect in the alpine. One report of a large natural icefall size 2.5 that did not release a slab from the slope below

Moist snow on solar aspects up to about 2400 metres and all aspects up to about 1800-2000 metres. The mid-February crust is buried down 10-30 cm and there is a weak layer of facets and/or surface hoar in the sandwich above the crust. The mid pack is well settled with a couple of persistent weak layers that continue to give hard or very hard results in snow profile tests. The late-Jan crust/surface hoar layer (up to 100 cm deep) and the mid-January surface hoar (80-120 cm deep) are generally dormant, and chances of triggering these weaknesses have decreased.