Good skiing can still be found on Northerly alpine aspects. Watch for isolated increasing hazard with prolonged solar effect.
Weather Forecast
The NW flow and ridge of high pressure will persist until Wednesday. This will then be displaced by a westerly flow, bringing a coastal low and light precipitation. Tuesday: A mix of sun and cloud. Treeline temperatures Low -8C, High -2C. Ridge wind light NW. Freezing Level 1900m.
Snowpack Summary
The snowpack is isothermal at treeline and below on all aspects (and into the alpine on solar) - the upper snowpack in these areas has undergone multiple melt-freeze cycles, a strong crust in the morning will weaken with solar imput/daytime warming. On north facing alpine slopes up to 15cm of settled storm snow overlies previous old dry surfaces.
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.