Avalanche Forecast

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If you haven't already, find a bottle of sun screen and put a healthy coat on. The sun is strong, and luckily we'll be seeing a lot of it in the next while. Tomorrow will have some cloud, but not enough to keep it cool. The daytime high is +4 with a freezing level of almost 2300m. No snow and light winds will top off the forecast. And remember, SPF 60 as a minimum!

Nothing new today, but observations were limited.

It is sure feeling Springlike out there but there is still a few things happening in the snowpack. On solar aspects, expect to find a crust in the early morning hours and then turn to moist snow later on. The sun has a lot of punch now so choose your route carefully in terms of overhead hazards like cornices and wet loose avalanches on southern aspects. The hazard is likely to go up during the day with the sun and moist snow. In other words, the day would start at Moderate and quickly change to Considerable with warming and solar radiation.

The forecasters found that there is still variability in the top 60cm of the snowpack. We mostly found several buried wind slabs down 15cm and 40cm overlying less dense layers. Good skiing and dry snow will still be found on North and NE aspects.

• Avoid sun exposed slopes when the solar radiation is strong, especially if snow is moist or wet
• Cornices become weak with daytime heating.
• Avoid rock outcroppings, convexities, and anywhere the snowpack is thin and/or variable.
• Be alert to conditions that change with elevation and sun exposure.