Challenging ski conditions at lower elevations with thin coverage and a crust of variable thickness.
Early season hazards, such as shallowly buried rocks and trees, are the primary concern right now.
Isolated pockets of wind slab may still be lingering in the Alpine from last weeks storm. Keep a lookout for this problem in unsupported Alpine lee slopes.
No new avalanches observed over the last five days.
Late last week, several avalanches up to size 3.0 were observed in the highway corridor and in the Connaught area. Some of these avalanches ran to ground in lower elevation runout zones.
A crust of varying thickness and strength exists up to 2200m. Above this elevation, dry snow can still be found but isolated pockets of windslab may still be lingering near ridgetop in the Alpine.
Storm arriving in Rogers Pass Friday PM with 40-60 cm of snow accumulation forecasted by Monday PM. Storm freezing level (FZL) around 1700m.
Tonight Cloudy with clear periods. No precipitation. Alpine low -4 °C. Wind SE10 km/h. FZL 1400m
Thurs Cloudy with sunny periods. No precip. Alpine high -3. FZL 1700m. Wind SW 15 km/h
Fri Flurries. 8 cm snow. FZL 1500m. Wind SW 30 km/h
Sat Snow. Up to 14 cm. Wind SW 20-40. FZL 1600m
