Pay close attn to the quality of the overnight freeze. Cloudy conditions are forecast so the freeze may be minimal. If the sun does come out, stability will decrease quickly, especially on solar aspects. Click
here for explanation of spring problems.
Summary
Confidence
Fair - Freezing levels are uncertain on Saturday
Weather Forecast
Saturday Weather:Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries and there will be a trace of new snow throughout the day from convective flurries. Freezing levels will be at 2300m with temps in the Alpine around 0C. Winds will be out of the north at 10-20km/hr
Avalanche Summary
Lots of loose wet slides on all aspects except true north up to 2700m. No new slab avalanches were observed on Friday.
Snowpack Summary
Warm temps over the past few days have settled out what snow fell last week. Winds in alpine terrain have affected lots of areas but sheltered north aspects may still have some good snow. Most other areas have a crust from the recent high freezing levels and some areas below treeline have once again gone isothermal unless yoru travelling in areas that were previously travelled and packed down. Corn snow and timing will be the thing to look for now... To review the spring problems click
here or go to www.avalanche.ca/spring. We are essentially in scenario 2 right now, Daily Melt freeze cycles.