A cooling trend is making human-triggering of weak layers more difficult.
Use caution as you approach steep, rocky terrain, especially where there is no supportive crust.
Where a melt-freeze crust has developed, this layer will be difficult to trigger. With uncertain freezing levels, areas of concern are steep, rocky terrain, where there is no melt-freeze crust.
Recent snow will lose cohesion with even short windows of sun and rising freezing levels.
On Saturday, several small wet loose avalanches were reported with daytime warming.
Recent snow has buried a widespread surface crust.
Depending on elevation, Refrozen and moist snow can be found in the upper snowpack, which overlies a settled mid-pack.
In the lower snowpack, a persistent weak layer of facets remains a concern for human-triggering.
Sunday Night
Partly cloudy. 10 to 15 km/h northeast wind. Treeline temperature -8 °C.
Monday
Partly cloudy, isolated flurries, 1 to 3 cm. 10 to 20 km/h 10 to 15 km/h variable ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -3 °C. Freezing level 1900 m.
Tuesday
Partly cloudy, isolated flurries, 2 to 5 cm. 10 to 20 km/h west ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -3 °C.
Wednesday
Partly cloudy, flurries, 5 to 10 cm. 15 to 20 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature -3 °C. Freezing level 1700 m.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
