Happy new year! Not much changing in the snowpack currently but a storm is forecasted to reach the region on Saturday with new snow and winds.
This wind slab is referring to the surface wind slab and the buried wind slab up to 40cm down. In steep and unsupported terrain, they could be sensitive to human triggering.
This problem isnt going away. A few large avalanches last week keep this layer on our mind. Espeically in thin snowpack areas.
Friday is looking to be warm and windy (moderate to strong SW) ahead of the front that is forecast to arrive on Saturday and give us some much needed snow over the weekend. Forecast amounts vary between 10-25cm of snow expected.
No new avalanches were observed on Thursday.
For December its s good snowpack! The main concern is the generations of windslabs that currently exist in the upper snowpack. As you transition from the trees into the more wind affected treeline and alpine be looking for these windslabs and be thinking about thick to thin snowpack areas. Thin weak areas will be the most likely places to trigger these windslabs that may also step down to the basal november crust.
