Avalanche Forecast

In a nutshell, cloudy, a few flakes, no winds, remaining cool. Light flurries with no significant accumulation are expected today. Winds will remain light in the alpine, with freezing levels staying near valley bottom. The same is expected for Thursday.

Scattered flurries from the past 36 hours have covered a variety of old surfaces. This included surface hoar from 1700m to ridgetop, thin variable slab in wind-exposed alpine areas, and thin sun crusts on steep solar aspects. Lower elevation and wind-protected areas have 10-15cm of low density faceted snow on a well settled base.

There were isolated loose avalanches to size 2 from both N and S aspects observed in the highway corridor yesterday. All started from steep, rocky alpine terrain and none ventured further than the beginning of their respective avalanche fans.