Glacier

Confidence in the weather forecast is shaky.

If we receive more than 15cm of new snow, and/or the winds remain strong into Saturday, the danger rating may reach CONSIDERABLE at upper elevations.

New snow (up to 15cm by Saturday morning), is covering a variety of surfaces - a crust on steep solar aspects up to Treeline (widespread to 1500m), settled pow in shaded/sheltered areas, and wind effect in exposed alpine areas. The Feb 26 interface (small surface hoar or suncrust) lingers down 30-40cm but has not been reactive recently.

A series of systems will bring snow, wind, and warming temps into next week

Tonight: Snow (10cm), Alpine low -8*C, strong SW ridgetop wind

Saturday: Flurries (4cm), High -5*C, moderate SW wind, freezing level (FZL) 1300m

Sun: Flurries (5cm), Low -6*C, High -5*C, moderate SW wind, FZL1500m

Mon: Snow (15cm), Low -6*C, High -4*C, strong SW wind, FZL 1500m

On Friday, there was a skier triggered size 1 windslab on an alpine NE aspect in the Asulkan.

On Tuesday; there was a near miss in the Loop Brook drainage, when a rider remote triggered a size 2.0 slab at ridge top on a NE slope; a near miss from a cornice fall in MacDonald gully #11; and, a report of isolated wind slabs in the Illecillewaet valley.