Avoid steep terrain where a stiffer slab overlies a weak facetted base (wind loaded features are prime suspects).
Triggering a Deep Persistent Slab avalanche remains our main concern.
A variety of crusts with facets above and below exist at the bottom of the snowpack. These layers are going to be with us for a long time and pose a low probability, high consequence situation if triggered.
No new avalanches have been observed or reported in the last few days.
Up to 10cm of new snow has fallen with generally very light winds.
The snowpack is mostly made up of facets and ranges in depth from 60 to 120 cm at treeline and above. At the bottom of the snowpack there are multiple early season crusts with facets above and below.
Thursday
Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: High -13 °C.
Ridge wind west: 10-25 km/h.
Friday
Cloudy with sunny periods.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperature: Low -13 °C, High -6 °C.
Light ridge wind.
