Avalanche Forecast
Issued: Dec 26th, 2013 7:33AM
The alpine rating is , the treeline rating is , and the below treeline rating is Known problems include Persistent Slabs.
mike.koppang,
Alberta Parks
Not a great start to the winter right now. Skiing opportunities are limited but travel into ice climbs is great! We need about 40cm of snow to improve the skiing.
Summary
Confidence
Good
Weather Forecast
We may see up to 8cm of new snow over the next 48hrs. Not enough to improve the skiing.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches were observed.
Snowpack Summary
Hard slabs overlying a weak facetted base is the main theme of the day. With the warm temps, there may be some surface crusts at lower elevations on solar aspects. Any avalanche that initiates is likely to involve the entire winters snowpack.
Problems
Persistent Slabs
Any avalanche that initiates is likely to involve the entire winters snowpack at this time due to stiff nature of the overlying slab and facetted base.
Avoid thin, rocky or sparsely-treed slopes.>Be aware of thin areas that may propogate to deeper instabilites.>Be aware of the potential for full depth avalanches due to deeply buried weak layers.>
Aspects: All aspects.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood
Expected Size
Valid until: Dec 27th, 2013 2:00PM
