Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Waterton Lakes.
Daily avalanche forecasts are due to start on Tuesday December 1st. If you're heading into the mountains before then, check out this article on assessing early season conditions.
Weather Forecast
Avalanche Canada's Mountain Weather Forecast is a great regional-scale resource for up-to-date weather information. Here you'll find snow amounts, freezing levels and other aspects of weather important to assessing winter conditions in the mountains.
SPOTWX is a good resource for local scale weather forecasts.
Snowpack Summary
10-15 cm new snow fell Tuesday night. Fresh snow sits over a 20-40cm soft Wind Slab in areas with enough snow to try skiing. Many alpine start zones were scoured to ground by the strong SW winds that followed our previous storm. Protected leeward slopes have drifts up to 1.5m deep. We suspect a thick melt freeze crust exist near ground above 2000m.
Avalanche Summary
Extremely limited observations.
Confidence
Avalanche Problems
Wind Slabs
Be sure to check recent wind strength and direction to help recognize how this problem is developing after publication of this bulletin.
- The recent snow may now be hiding windslabs that were easily visible before the snow fell.
Aspects: North, North East, East, South East, West, North West.
Elevations: All elevations.
Likelihood: Unlikely - Possible
Expected Size: 1 - 1.5