Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Glacier.
As stated everywhere in the media, stay home and kick the COVID pandemic. If you just can't sit, then play it very conservatively in the backcountry and choose mellow slopes to travel upon.
Weather Forecast
A mixture of flurries and sun over the next few days.
Today: Mix of sun and cloud with flurries, trace precip, freezing level 1300m, light W winds
Wed: Sun and cloud, freezing level 700m, light W winds
Thurs: Cloudy with flurries, trace precip, fzl 900m, mod W winds
Snowpack Summary
5-10cm of storm snow overlies a crust on solar aspects (SE through W) into the alpine. The new snow sits on surface hoar on shaded, polar aspects. Previously wind-affected surfaces at tree-line and alpine elevations vary from breakable to rockhard/impenetrable.
Avalanche Summary
Two natural slab avalanches to sz 2.5 were observed from extreme terrain on the N side of Macdonald yesterday.
Please report backcountry avalanche observations using the Avalanche Canada Mountain Information Network.
Confidence
Avalanche Problems
Storm Slabs
Thin storm slabs will be present in immediate lee areas at ridge crest and on open, cross-loaded features. Storm slabs will pop quickly on solar aspect crusts.
Aspects: North, North East, East, South East, South.
Elevations: Alpine.
Likelihood: Possible
Expected Size: 1 - 2