Northwest Inland

The forecast calls for light amounts of precipitation over the next few days. If the wind picks up, watch for fresh wind slab formation at upper elevations.

There is no new avalanche activity to report.

If you do go into the backcountry, consider submitting a Mountain Information Network report.

Widespread wind-affected surfaces exist at higher elevations with roughly 30 cm of recent snow that has been redistributed by strong southwest alpine winds.

Two different surface hoar layers have been reported in the upper half of the snowpack and appear to be most prominent at treeline and below. Snowpack depth at treeline is 50 to 100 cm.

Tuesday Night

Mostly cloudy with a trace of snow, ridgetop winds southwest 20-40 km/h, treeline temperature -6 °C.

Wednesday

Mostly cloudy with 2 to 4 cm of snow, ridgetop wind south and southwest 15-30 km/h, treeline temperature -3 °C.

Mostly cloudy with 2 to 6 cm of snow, ridgetop wind southwest west 30-50 km/h, treeline temperature -1 °C.

Mostly cloudy with 1 to 3 cm of snow, ridgetop wind south west 15-30 km/h, treeline temperatures -6 °C.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Pay attention to the wind, once it starts to blow fresh sensitive wind slabs are likely to form.
• Carefully assess open slopes and convex rolls where buried surface hoar may be preserved.