Excellent riding conditions with 30 cm of light dry snow in the past 48-hours but strong NE winds today will have produced wind slabs to watch for. Bust out your big down jacket, as temperatures are about to plummet reaching -28 by Wednesday.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Snow flurries continuing into Monday, but the bulk of the precipitation from this storm has fallen already. On Monday the cold air truly arrives: the day starts at -13 and by evening we should reach -25. Looks like cold, calm and clear for the week ahead.
Snowpack Summary
30 cm of light, dry storm snow has fallen over the past 48-hours and instabilities within this storm snow are failing easily down 10 and 25 cm with snowpack tests. In exposed areas, wind slabs have been created over these weak layers by Sunday's NE winds. Deeper in the snowpack, the Nov crust appears to weakening, with easy test results observed.
Avalanche Summary
Sunshine Village patrol was reporting soft wind slabs formed with minimal propagation (fractures not spreading far), and otherwise no avalanches observed or reported - although visibility was poor.
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