Avalanche Forecast

Here's a great MIN that describes loose wet activity during warm and rainy conditions the past few days. Looking forward, we expect this activity to subside as cooler weather prevails.

Please help out your backcountry community by submitting a MIN report if you head out to the backcountry.

Recent rain and warm air wet the snow surface, which will freeze into a hard melt-freeze crust as the temperature cools. Small amounts of new snow may exist in the high alpine where rain transitioned to snow. Wet snow or dirt exist below treeline.

Various buried melt-freeze crusts are found throughout the snowpack.

Treeline snow depth ranges from 70 to 120 cm. Snow depth diminishes rapidly below 1000 m.

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy with 2 to 5 cm snow, southwest treeline wind 10 km/h, treeline temperature 0 °C, freezing level 1400 m.

Sunday

Mix of sun and clouds with no precipitation, south treeline wind 10 to 20 km/h, treeline temperature -1 °C, freezing level 1200 m.

Monday

Cloudy with 2 to 5 cm snow, southwest treeline wind 20 to 40 km/h, treeline temperature -1 °C, freezing level 1200 m.

Tuesday

Cloudy with 5 cm snow, south treeline wind 60 km/h, treeline temperature 0 °C, freezing level 1300 m.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Early season avalanches at any elevation have the potential to be particularly dangerous due to obstacles that are exposed or just below the surface.