Avalanche Forecast

Good - -1

Tuesday: A couple centimetres possible overnight with up to 5-10cm possible throughout the day. Freezing levels could reach as high as 2000m in the evening with a temperature inversion, and moderate southwesterly alpine winds are expected. Wednesday: Continued light snowfall with moderate to strong southwesterly winds, and freezing levels around 1300m. Thursday: Generally dry with isolated flurries possible.

Reports of avalanches are getting less frequent, but human triggering large avalanches associated with persistent weaknesses remains possible, including remote triggering. A skier recently remotely triggered an avalanche from 50m away and in many places shooting cracks and whumphing are further indicators of a very touchy, unstable snowpack.

Compression tests have been producing easy to moderate sudden results on the mid-December surface hoar, down 30-80cm, and propagation tests have shown that avalanches associated with this persistent slab have a high propensity to propagate over large areas. above the mid-december weak layer of surface hoar. A storm snow weakness down 30cm also gave easy sudden results, recently formed wind slabs remain touchy, and in some places buried wind slabs are a concern.