Stay out of avalanche terrain as its dangerous times,
Weather Forecast
The Pineapple Express is tracking over the region bring warm wet conditions until Thursday PM. Tonight 22cm new snow in the alp with another 9cm on Thur. Expect rain at lower elevations. Freezing levels will remain at treeline until late Thursday. Ridge wind west: 30 km/h gusting to 75 km/h.
Snowpack Summary
A persistent slab of between 40cm - 200cm sits over the Halloween Crust. This crust can be found up to 2,700m in the Icefields and depending on its location is between 20cm - 40cm above the ground. Moist or wet snow, from rain during the past 24hrs, extends to 2,200m. Thinner wind slabs in the higher alpine can be expected on lee features
Avalanche Summary
Numerous persistent slab avalanches to size 2.5 observed from field teams today. These are failing at treeline and upper elevations as a result of warm temperatures, rain and additional snow loading. At treeline and below point release moist or wet snow avalanches are occurring. A field team remote triggered a size 2 persistent slab from 60m.
Problems
Persistent Slabs
Persistent Slab avalanches are the release of a cohesive layer of snow (a slab) in the middle to upper snowpack, when the bond to an underlying persistent weak layer breaks. Persistent layers include: surface hoar, depth hoar, near-surface facets, or faceted snow. Persistent weak layers can continue to produce avalanches for days, weeks or even months, making them especially dangerous and tricky. As additional snow and wind events build a thicker slab on top of the persistent weak layer, this avalanche problem may develop into a Deep Persistent Slab.
Loose Wet
Loose Wet avalanches are the release of wet unconsolidated snow or slush. These avalanches typically occur within layers of wet snow near the surface of the snowpack, but they may quickly gouge into lower snowpack layers. Like Loose Dry Avalanches, they start at a point and entrain snow as they move downhill, forming a fan-shaped avalanche. Other names for loose-wet avalanches include point-release avalanches or sluffs. Loose Wet avalanches can trigger slab avalanches that break into deeper snow layers.