Good skiing with "dust on crust conditions", but pay attention to the solar radiation and how quickly the day is warming up.
An 80 cm thick midpack slab sits over a weaker, facetted base. On most slopes, recent sun crusts and a buried March 27 rain crust cap this slab, adding strength. We suspect it would take a large trigger, like a cornice or a human in a very steep, thin area, to get this going.
10-20 cm of recent storm snow sluffing on harder bed surfaces below. With minimal wind expect a dry loose problem, but may act as a small slab if winds pick up.
The forecast is for sunny periods on Tuesday and solar radiation could be strong enough to create loose wet avalanches in the storm snow on southerly aspects.
Several small loose dry avalanches in the storm snow reported out of immediate lees in the alpine.
There is 10-20 storm snow at treeline over top of well developed crusts on solar aspects (to ridgetop), and on crusts at all all aspects treeline and below. On north facing alpine slopes there is 20-30 cm of dry snow over firmer surfaces. The March 27 crust is 30-70 cm deep and extends to about 2500m. Below the settled mid-pack, there are still weak facets and depth hoar to the ground.
A ridge of high pressure will begin building on Tuesday and be well established by Wednesday morning. Winds are forecast to be light on Tuesday with Freezing Level rising to 2000m.
