Waterton Lakes

There is good skiing to be found at higher elevations in the Cameron Valley! Up to 40cm of snow now overlies the Christmas Crust Complex. Use caution near valley bottom where buried hazards still exist.

The coming warm temps and extreme wind may quickly build new windslab. Use careful evaluation when choosing your line.

No new avalanches were observed today.

5-10cm of snow being redistributed by light to moderate SW winds into windslabs in the alpine and at treeline. This overlies old windslab and a 2022-12-25 crust complex that is up to 30cm thick. Alpine and treeline midpack is well settled, below 1900m snowpack was saturated to ground by rain and has now re-frozen.

Thursday

Winds increase through the day from strong to extreme from the SW. Temps will increase as well and a ridgetop high of -3 will be possible. Overcast skies today with no forecast precip.

Friday

A bigger warm up today, freezing levels will rise to 1700m. Winds remain strong to extreme from the SW through the day.

Saturday

Temps cool off today with an alpine high of -2. Winds strong from the SW with broken skies.

• Be carefull around freshly wind loaded features.