Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Banff Yoho Kootenay.
Weather Forecast
Warming temperatures combined with a clearing trend should provide an opportunity for the danger rating to drop back down to moderate by the end of the day on Monday.
Snowpack Summary
The snowpack is surprisingly well settled for early December. Expect to find approx 15cm of low density snow sitting on top of of a well settled mid-pack, all of which is sitting on top of the Nov 6 crust 20-40cm above the ground. Snowpack tests today showed irregular results in the hard range on the Nov 6 crust in our Bow Summit study plot.Â
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanche activity observed or reported today. However, there have been reports and observations of avalanches up to size 3 throughout the forecast region in the past 4 days. It is suspected that many of these large avalanche released on the Nov 6th crust.
Confidence
Avalanche Problems
Wind Slabs
Aspects: North, North East, East, South East, South.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood: Unlikely - Possible
Expected Size: 1 - 2
Deep Persistent Slabs
Aspects: All aspects.
Elevations: All elevations.
Likelihood: Unlikely - Possible
Expected Size: 2 - 3