Wind Slabs
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Possible
- Taille
- 1–2
Ongoing moderate W winds redistributed 30cm new snow to lee features in open spaces.
Extremely cold temperatures (-25, forecasted high for the Icefields) is the most significant hazard to the hardy back-country traveler today.
Ongoing moderate W winds redistributed 30cm new snow to lee features in open spaces.
Cooling temps will weaken the surface snow. Caution to ice climbers in confined and gully features.
Cold air from the Yukon floods into our region as a arctic high pressure system builds. Cold easterly winds and clear skies will remain in place most of the week. For more details: Avalanche Canada's, Mountain Weather Forecast.
30cm of low density snow fell since Saturday in the ice fields area, less in Maligne and around the three valley confluence. This layer is sitting on a variety of surfaces depending on elevation and aspect and seems to be bonding well. Surface hoar may be sporadically preserved in some sheltered locations.
No new avalanches observed or reported