It's looking warm and wet again today. Warm temps overnight prevented an overnight recovery; as precipitation and winds pick up this afternoon hazard will rise. A cooling trend through the weekend should help to tighten up the snowpack.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Today expect flurries to accumulate to 10cm, with freezing levels hovering around 1800m and rain at low elevations. Winds should shift to S'ly and continue to load lees. Overnight we should see another 10cm snow with freezing levels lowering to 1200m. Saturday and Sunday should be a mix of sun and cloud, with a cooling trend and alpine highs of -6.
Snowpack Summary
Variable winds loaded lee's overnight. ~20cm of moist snow overlies a crust everywhere other than N aspects above 1800m. Below 1900m this slab has been saturated by rain. The upper snowpack is a complex mix of crusts. Deeper in the snowpack, old persistent weak layers that include crusts and facets have been reactive to large triggers like cornices
Avalanche Summary
High elevation N aspects hold dry snow that sluffs with skier traffic. At lower elevations, the wet snow is easily triggered running far and fast on crusts. Yesterday we observed a few size 2 natural storm slab avalanches with moist debris running to the end of the paths. Cornices or smaller avalanches have been triggering deep persistent layers.
Confidence
Timing of incoming weather systems is uncertain