New snow and wind mean an increased likelihood of avalanches
You can always choose low angle terrain.
Reactive storm slabs may build throughout the day today. Storm slabs may be deeper and easier to trigger in wind-loaded terrain features, gullies, and rollovers.
Snow totals are expected to be greater in the southwest of the region.
On Tuesday, multiple skier-triggered wind slabs on loaded and cross-loaded features up to 90 cm deep were reported at treeline. Widespread wet loose debris was also reported at treeline and below from a natural avalanche cycle that occurred during the rain event. These avalanches are from the southwest of the region.
In the north of the region, one natural size 1 wind slab was reported on a northeast aspect in the alpine on Tuesday.
Check out this great MIN describing conditions at Shames.
5 to 15 cm of recent snow has been redistributed by southerly winds. Below about 1500 m, this snow sits on a crust. Several other crusts exist in the upper snowpack.
Two buried surface hoar layers may still be found in the mid-pack in isolated areas.
Snow depths are highly variable throughout the region, ranging from 100 to 300 cm at treeline and tapering rapidly below.
Wednesday Night
Cloudy with 10 to 20 cm of new snow expected, southerly alpine winds 30 to 60 km/h, freezing level rising to 600 m in the southwest of the region, otherwise surface.
Thursday
Cloudy with 5 to 10 cm of new snow expected, southwest alpine winds 20 to 60 km/h, freezing level rising to 800 m.
Friday
Cloudy with 5 to 10 cm of new snow expected, south alpine winds 20 to 60 km/h, freezing level around 500 m.
Saturday
Partly cloudy with up to 5 cm of new snow expected, northwest alpine wind 10 to 20 km/h, freezing level dropping to surface.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
