Continue to manage overhead hazards such as cornices and wet loose avalanches.
This is our final daily forecast for the season.
Large cornices hang over many ridges and are most likley to collapse naturally during the warmest parts of the day or from human-triggering.
Strong sunshine and high freezing levels may trigger small wet loose avalanches on steep slopes.
No new avalanches were reported on Thursday.
NOTE: Observations in this region are currently very limited.
The snowpack is generally strong, with a typical spring diurnal pattern: daytime warming melts and softens the upper snowpack, then overnight cooling usually forms a hard crust at higher elevations. Lower elevations likely will not refreeze, and are experiencing an all-melt, no freeze scenario, and are melting out quickly. Isothermal snow conditions exist below 1500 m.
Dormant weak layers may still exist in isolated alpine terrain, but likely require a very heavy trigger, such as a cornice fall. It's a good idea to keep this on your radar with forecast high freezing levels, strong sun, and a limited overnight refreeze.
Friday Night
Clear skies. 5 to 10 km/h west ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 5 °C. Freezing level 2500 m.
Saturday
Sunny. 10 to 20 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 6 °C. Freezing level 2400 m.
Sunday
Sunny. 5 to 10 km/h northwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 6 °C. Freezing level 2400 m.
Monday
Cloudy with isolated flurries, 3 to 10 cm snow (above 1500 m.) 20 to 30 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 0 °C. Freezing level 1700 m.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
