The cooler temps are maintaining the fantastic ski quality. Use caution on solar aspects where the recent snow is reactive to skier triggering on buried crusts in specific locations.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Unseasonably cold temperatures remain (below zero) in the Valley bottoms for a few days yet. The overnight ridge temperature will stay in the -15 range until Thursday. Cloud cover and light amounts of precip are expected to continue Wed & Thurs. The wind will be SW and increase to moderate as snow squalls pass through the region on Wednesday.
Snowpack Summary
Last weeks storm brought 15-40cm with moderate S and W winds creating wind slabs in the alpine and into exposed areas at treeline. The March 15 suncrust is down 25-50cm on south-east through west aspects and has been sensitive to skier triggering over the last few days. The mid- pack land basal layers have been dormant for the past while.
Avalanche Summary
Skier remote size 1.5 & 2 just outside Lake Louise ski area boundary on East to SE aspects yesterday and
today. Both avalanches failed on a buried suncrust down 20-40 cm and occurred in the afternoon.
Confidence