Avalanche Forecast

Fair - Due to variable snopack conditions

Arctic Air continues to sweep down from the North influencing the NW Coast. Under this pattern the region will see cold temperatures: At 1500 m on Monday you can expect a High of -20, Low of -31. Ridge top winds will be from the E, NE at moderate values under mostly sunny skies. This pattern looks to persist through Thursday.

There have been no recent avalanches observations reported from the region.

The region received heavy rain last weekend creating a stout crust up to about 1000m. Moving up in elevation, that precipitation turned to snow. Winds wreaked havoc on the new snow in wind exposed areas. Those old wind slabs have mostly settled out now. The region has received a few small shots of snow in the last 4 days, and that snow is reportedly bonding well to the old snow surface. The snowpack is highly variable in the region as strong winds have accompanied most of the storms. Looking around you can see the evidence of the big winds; some ridges are scoured down to bare rock, others have fat wind pillows on them.