South Rockies

Avoid locally deep spots where wind slabs may have formed.

No new avalanches were reported at the time of publishing on Saturday.

Up to 5 cm of new snow sitting over crusts on solar aspects, surface hoar, wind-affected snow, and facets.

The snowpack contains a couple of thick, hard crusts buried 10 to 20 cm and 30 to 70 cm deep. The snowpack has no weak layers below.

The snow depth at treeline is 50 to 130 cm.

Snow depth decreases rapidly at lower elevations.

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy with 5 to 10 cm of snow, southwest alpine wind 10 to 20 km/h, treeline temperature -10 °C.

Sunday

Mostly cloudy with up to 5 cm of snow, alpine wind calm to 15 km/h from various directions, treeline temperature -15 °C.

Monday

A mix of sun and cloud with no new snow, west alpine wind 15 to 25 km/h, treeline temperature -13 °C.

Tuesday

A mix of sun and cloud with 5 to 10 cm of snow, west alpine wind 40 to 60 km/h, treeline temperature -8 °C.

More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.

• Watch for newly formed and reactive wind slabs as you transition into wind affected terrain.
• Wind slabs may be poorly bonded to the underlying crust.