Avalanche Forecast
Issued: Jan 9th, 2018 4:35PM
The alpine rating is Wind Slabs.
, the treeline rating is , and the below treeline rating is Known problems include Heads up skiers and climbers! With fresh snow and winds the Dec 15 layer will soon wake up. Pay attention to new snowfall amounts and fresh wind slabs.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Cooling trend with up to 10 cm new snow at tree-line and moderate SW winds forecasted for Wednesday. High pressure ridge will start to rebuild over area on Friday.
Snowpack Summary
25-40cm of snow sits over the Dec 15 layer which consists of surface hoar, sun crust, or facets depending on location. Easy to mod shears found on this layer. Below this the snowpack is heavily faceted with remnants of older crust's still lingering throughout, but no significant shears found in the lower pack. Some isolated windslabs near ridgetop.
Avalanche Summary
No natural avalanches observed or reported in past 24 hours.
Confidence
Problems
Wind Slabs
Recent and forecasted snow will be moved around by the SW winds and forming fresh wind slabs in the alpine. These slabs can fail on the the Dec 15 interface which is showing easy to moderate shears.
Use caution in lee areas. Recent wind loading has created wind slabs.
Aspects: North, North East, East, South East.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood
Expected Size
Valid until: Jan 10th, 2018 4:00PM