Winds and solar heating have continued to produce avalanche activity with the snow from last weekend. Avalanche danger will stay elevated until this snow stabilizes and temperatures cool.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Friday should be a mix of sun and cloud but with strong westerly winds and freezing level climbing to ridgetop. Saturday could see up to 5mm of precipitation, starting late in the day, with freezing level dropping down to valley bottom as the snow tapers off Sunday morning. Sunday will clear off and temperatures will start rising again.
Snowpack Summary
Surface temperature and solar crusts now exist to ridge top on S and E slopes and only to 2000m on N and W slopes. Below the storm slab from the weekend there is a new crust which will support a boot only once you reach 1900m. The strong southwesterly winds have picked up and with the snow from the W slopes are contributing to the slab development.
Avalanche Summary
Good visibility today showed evidence of previous widespread loose dry avalanches and storm slab avalanches from treeline and above which resulted in substantial moist debris piles as they reached lower elevations. Loose wet activity has been focused on mainly E and S slopes but will become more widespread as heating continues into the weekend.
Confidence
Freezing levels are uncertain