Monday is expected to be stormy and snowy. Give all avalanche terrain a miss until the storm passes and the very fragile snowpack has time to adjust to the new load.
Freshly formed windslabs will be reactive on lee features treeline and above.
If triggered, there is a good chance this will step down to the basal weakness creating a much larger avalanche
The alpine is still variable in total amounts of snow but the basal layers haven't changed. The entire lower half is either facets, or depth hoar. Thin weak areas should be treated as suspect and avoided.
No new avalanches reported or observed today.
Sun crusts continue to form on steep solar aspects. Generally a weak snowpack. The surface wind slab at tree line and above is slowly gaining strength but is still producing planar results down 20cm from the surface. Natural avalanches are possible and the consequences would be significant because any trigger would likely make the entire snowpack slide.
A storm arrives. Forecast models are calling for anywhere between 15-25cm starting tonight and throughout Monday. The storm will come in warm with day time highs of -4. The winds will be howling out of the SW to 60km/h. Freezing levels around 2000m
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
