Avalanche Forecast
Issued: Nov 18th, 2016 8:05AM
The alpine rating is , the treeline rating is , and the below treeline rating is Known problems include Storm Slabs.
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Parks Canada
Winter's Back! However early season hazards like rocks, trees and open creeks are prevalent below 1900m. There's still lots of winter left, ride conservatively out there!
Summary
Weather Forecast
Expect mainly cloudy skies today, without much precip, ridge top wind coming from the south east 10-20 kph & and freezing level at 1300m. Scattered flurries Saturday will bring 5 cm of new snow and freezing level is expected to rise to 1600m.
Snowpack Summary
35-55cm of new snow covers a thick supportive crust (Nov 13) with a moist near-isothermal snowpack below. Previous winds have transported this new snow and formed soft slabs in lee features at ridge top. Below 1900m snow depths are less than 50cm with many early season hazards (rocks, trees & open creeks!) lurking at or just below the surface.
Avalanche Summary
Natural avalanche activity has decreased with minimal minimal new snow and dropping temperatures. However with the clearing skies field teams observed previous avalanches up to size 2 from Mt Macdonald, Cheops and Jupitor. These avalanches occurred Tues-Wed on steep Northerly aspects and were triggered by the previous strong winds
Confidence
Problems
Storm Slabs
Recent snowfall & previous mod winds have formed storm slabs at ridgetop and below on specific features. New low density snow sits on top and sluffing can be expected on steeper terrain features.
Use caution in lee areas. Recent wind loading have created wind slabs.Be cautious of sluffing in steep terrain.
Aspects: All aspects.
Elevations: Alpine, Treeline.
Likelihood
Expected Size
Valid until: Nov 19th, 2016 8:00AM
