Avalanche Forecast

Only sluffing in steep terrain has been reported in the past couple days.

No other new avalanches have been reported since the weekend, but reports have been limited, especially in areas near Terrace. Please consider submitting your observations to the Mountain Information Network.

By the morning of November 28th up to 50 cm could overlie variable snow surfaces, including small facets and/or surface hoar in sheltered areas and heavily wind-affected snow in exposed terrain.

In sheltered terrain in the northern part of the forecast region, a surface hoar layer may be found down around 80 cm.

A crust from early November can be found down 80 to 120 cm. Below this prominent crust are several other crust layers from October.

Snow depths vary across the region, but generally range from 100 to 230 cm in the alpine and about 50 to 100 cm at 1000 m.

Wednesday Night

Cloudy with up to 20 cm of snow expected. 25 to 50 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -4°C.

Thursday

Cloudy with 15 to 30 cm of snow expected. 25 to 50 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -4 °C.

Friday

Cloudy  with up to 40 cm of snow expected by early morning. 40 to 60 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -5°C.

Saturday

Cloudy with up to 80 cm of snow possible. 30 to 60 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -1°C.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Avoid avalanche terrain during periods of heavy snowfall.
• Storm slab size and sensitivity to triggering will likely increase through the day.
• As the storm slab problem worsens, the easy solution is to choose more conservative terrain.