Avalanche Forecast

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Winds will continue to be out of the west in the moderate range on Friday with no new snow expected.  Temperatres on Friday are expected to be around -10C in the Alpine.

Observations were limited due to snowfalls throughout the day.  There were reports from groups in the Black prince area of avalanches up to sz 2 coming from eastern windloaded aspects.  They were suspected to be loose dry slides but running far into below treeline areas.  We suspect more avalanche occurred today but we just couldnt see them due to the obscured conditions.

Up to 20cm of snow over the past 24hrs at treeline elevations.  Winds continue out of the west into the moderate range with occasional gusts into the strong range.  This recent snow is burying and adding additional load to the previous windslabs that were overlying a weak facetted layer known as the dec 15th down around 1m.  At treeline and below there are a few surface hoar layers of concern within the top 1m of the snowpack.  Dec 15th SH is down generally 1m, Jan 6th down around 70cm and Jan 18th down 35cm (all depths approx).  These layers are slowly becomming more reactive as successive snow loads bury them.  This is a good time to stick to conservative terrain and let the snowpack adjust to this new load.