Avalanche conditions continue to be very tricky. The snowpack is dangerous and avoiding avalanche terrain is important right now. Avalanches have been occurring in low angled terrain. Incremental loading will keep the hazard elevated.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Expect some flurries and the temperatures to drop the Arctic air pushes into the East side of the Rockies Tuesday night with light Northerly winds. On Thursday, temperatures will be around -15C and we will return to a Westerly flow with light flurries may resume Thursday evening.
Snowpack Summary
Strong SW winds in the past 48 hrs created widespread wind effect and hard windslabs at treeline and above. The upper half of the snowpack is a dense slab overlying three weak layers (Jan 16, Jan 6, & Dec 15) that are a mix of facets, crusts and surface hoar down 75-125cm in the snowpack. These layers have been producing very large avalanches.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches were observed or reported today - but we continue to see evidence of the large avalanches that occurred over the past few days. Today on
Hector Shoulder trees we could see several deep fractures some of which occurred on low angle terrain.
Confidence