Avalanche Forecast

Issued: Dec 24th, 2015 3:00PM

The alpine rating is low, the treeline rating is low, and the below treeline rating is low. Known problems include Wind Slabs.

mike.koppang, Alberta Parks

Kananaskis.

Have a great christmas! Ski quality is still good in many areas!

Summary

Confidence

High

Weather Forecast

Calm winds and cool temperatures are forecasted for Santa's arrival tomorrow. Light snow is currently falling and will likely continue overnight. Dont expect to much new snow though as these flakes are TINY. We are guessing about 2-3cm of new will fall overnight.

Avalanche Summary

A few loose dry slides out of steep unskiable terrain.

Snowpack Summary

Not alot is changing out there now. There are isolated windslabs in alpine terrain just confined to ridgetop and crossloaded features. Colder temperatures are promoting facetting in the upper snowpack so we are starting to see some weak facetted snow in shallow areas. When more snow does fall, this may be a problem. The Dec 3rd layer is down 40-60cm but has not produced any noteable test results of late. For this time of year, its great coverage and a pretty good snowpack.

Problems

Wind Slabs

Isolated windslabs along ridgelines and in crossloaded features.

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Aspects: North, North East, East, South East, South.

Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.

Likelihood

Unlikely - Possible

Expected Size

1 - 3

Valid until: Dec 25th, 2015 2:00PM