Avalanche Forecast

The high pressure ridge will dominate the region until at least Thursday. Temperatures will remain inverted with above freezing temperatures in the alpine and cooler temperatures at the valley bottoms. A weak upper low crossing the region on Tuesday will cause some high level cloud cover and some stronger winds but no precipitation is expected. 

Small surface hoar in sheltered locations at tree-line. Sun crusts, surface faceting and wind effect on various aspects in the alpine. 15-40 cm of snow lies over the Nov 27th and Nov 23rd crusts. Both of these now overlie the Halloween crust/facet layer that sits 30-50cm above the ground.

During the last few days with inverted temperatures yielding above freezing conditions treeline and above, only a few very small loose wet avalanches in the alpine were observed. These were in steep rocky terrain that was in the sun, and sheltered from the wind. Where observed, these did not triggered any deeper weaknesses.