The limited amount of information available to forecasters points to a reactive crust and facet layer near the base of the snowpack. Use caution particularly as you transition into the alpine.
Summary
Weather Forecast
A weak, fast moving low will pass North to South over the Rockies overnight potentially bringing trace amounts of precip, winds shifting to the North and dropping temperatures into Sunday. Behind this, a ridge will dominate the weather until mid week.
Snowpack Summary
In the alpine, 20-50cm with variable wind effect sits on the Oct.26th temperature crust which can be found mainly on shaded aspects in the alpine and is a few cm thick above weak facets. Total snowpack depths are 60-120cm+ in the alpine, tapering dramatically at treeline to below threshold values for avalanche below treeline.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches reported today. There have been several avalanches on the Oct 26 interface over the last week. This includes skier remote triggered avalanches to size 2 along hwy 93N, remote triggered avalanches to size 2.5 resulting from explosives at the Lake Louise ski hill, and several natural events seen through the BYK region.
Confidence
Due to the number of field observations