Good skiing conditions can be found in areas with sufficient snow coverage, but deeper instabilities remain a significant concern despite a decrease in natural avalanche activity.
No major changes to the avalanche hazard are expected over the next few days.
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.
Several explosives triggered Deep Persistent Slabs, up to size 2, were reported by the ski hill on Wednesday. A good reminder that this problem is not going away, and triggering full depth avalanches is still a possibility.
Up to 10cm of new snow has fallen this week 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.
Saturday
A mix of sun and cloud.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperature: High -7 °C.
Ridge wind light to 20 km/h.
Freezing level at valley bottom.
Sunday
Cloudy with sunny periods and isolated flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: Low -9 °C, High -8 °C.
Ridge wind light to 15 km/h.
Freezing level at valley bottom.
