Recent storm snow may need extra time to settle. Use caution, especially where more than 20 cm has accumulated.
All the recent snow will take time to stabilize. This is particularly true where it overlies weak surface hoar crystals and in wind-exposed terrain near ridges.
Throughout this past week, a few small to large (size 1 to 2) wind slab avalanches out of steep alpine terrain where reported.
Up to 60 cm of snow has accumulated in the past week and overlies a hard melt-freeze crust and perhaps isolated surface hoar crystals in wind-sheltered treeline terrain. The snow may be deeper and touchier in wind-exposed lee features.
A weak layer of surface hoar and/or faceted grains buried mid-February is around 50 to 100 cm deep, but is showing signs of strengthening.
The lower snowpack is well-settled.
Thursday Night
Cloudy with trace amounts of snow. 10 to 20 km/h northwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -16 °C.
Friday
Mix of sun and cloud. 10 to 20 km/h northwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -14 °C.
Saturday
Mostly sunny. 10 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -10 °C.
Sunday
Mix of sun and cloud. 40 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -5 °C.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
