Sheltered areas at treeline are your best bet for good skiing. The alpine has seen better days, it's looking pretty wind blasted. Best to avoid it for awhile.
There are new surface windslabs on all Easterly aspects today. Test them in small terrain before committing to bigger terrain.
So far the new load isn't waking this layer up, but given our uncertainty we are still calling the trigger-ability "reactive" versus stubborn Rocky areas are the most likely places to find it as a problem.
Snow is coming! Snow is expected to start around midnight and bring about 12cm by Sunday evening. If that wasn't enough, even more is coming for Monday afternoon. I won't say how much though...don't want to scare it off. As the snow plays through on Sunday temps will fall to -12 by evening. Winds will continue to be very strong in the alpine, but lower areas should escape the full brunt. Only 6-10km at valley bottom.
Nothing was seen today in the Northern Spray area.
A few centimeters came in last night, which helped the skiing. Oddly enough, the winds haven't taken a huge toll on the treeline elevation. Great skiing was had today in sheltered treeline areas. The alpine is a different story...and not in a good way. Extensive wind transport has crossloaded most features and stripped the westerly aspects to gravel. Windslabs are widespread, and plump. Overall the snowpack is doing well with no scary layers. The Dec 9th and Nov 5th are down 45cm & 90cm at treeline.
