Start and finish early to minimize the avalanche hazard. Watch for solar effect on the slopes above you and for isolated wind slabs in the high alpine. Corn skiing is starting on solar aspects, with powder on due N aspects in the alpine.
Summary
Weather Forecast
Clear skies Monday night with a good refreeze overnight, but warming up Tuesday by mid-day with freezing levels to 2500m and increasing winds in the afternoon. Freezing levels stay a little higher Tuesday night and climb to 2500m again on Wednesday before spiking to 3400m on Thursday. No precipitation is expected during the next several days.
Snowpack Summary
Isolated wind slabs are present in the alpine. Crust or moist snow on all solar aspects depending on temperatures. Buried temperature crusts to 2000m on all aspects and to ridge top on solar slopes, including the Mar 15 crust down 40-70 cm in the alpine. Moist snow at lower elevations, with the entire snowpack becoming moist near valley bottom.
Avalanche Summary
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skier triggered size 2.5 persistent slab avalanche occurred on Mt Fairview late in the day Sunday. It failed 40-50 cm down on a buried sun crust. Lots of loose wet avalanche activity on steep solar aspects starting by 1000 in the morning. Several cornice failures triggering deeper slabs up to size 3 have been observed in the past 48 hrs.
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