Avalanche Forecast

Fair

A weak ridge moving over the region should bring lighter precipitations for Wednesday and then mainly cloudy skies in the Southern part of the region and partial clearing in the Northern part. The next system is weaker and should reach the region later Thursday and deliver some light to moderate precipitations and stronger Southwesterly winds for the rest of the period. Cool temperatures (-12 C) and lighter winds are expected for Friday.

A few small soft slabs were triggered by skiers yesterday on the storm snow. Suspect recent sluffing in steep terrain.

20-30 cm of warmer-denser new snow from the past few days fell on a cooler-lower density storm layer possibly creating storm slabs and also burying older windslabs.  The moderate to strong North West and South West winds most likely created new windslabs on leeslopes in the alpine and at treeline. The bond within the new snow with the older storm snow interface is unknown, but it still remains a concern in the alpine and at treeline on lee slopes. There has been report of multiple significant results (sudden planar) on the Late November surface hoar layer now down around 100 cm and 150 cm in snowier areas. The early November crust is still a concern and is producing more varied results from break to sudden planar.  Large planar slopes with known smooth ground cover are areas to avoid in respect to this concern.