Good early season skiing if you can fight your way out of the valley bottom. Watch for increased avalanche activity as overnight low temperatures increase, particularly if there is no overnight freeze.
Weather Forecast
Continued clear skies and light winds into the week, with overnight lows on the rise.
Snowpack Summary
Recent surface hoar growth of up to 10mm in the valley bottoms. Watch for isolated pockets of soft storm slab in the alpine and at treeline, from last weeks post frontal winds. Otherwise the shallow early season snowpack is generally well settled, with no notable weak layers.
Avalanche Summary
Isolated loose snow avalanches up to size 1.0 have been observed in the past 48hrs on steep solar aspects.
Confidence
Due to the number of field observations
Problems
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.
Storm Slabs
Storm Slab avalanches are the release of a cohesive layer (a slab) of new snow that breaks within new snow or on the old snow surface. Storm-slabs typically last between a few hours and few days (following snowfall). Storm-slabs that form over a persistent weak layer (surface hoar, depth hoar, or near-surface facets) may be termed Persistent Slabs or may develop into Persistent Slabs.