Crusty Telkwas

There may be little snow in the valley, but as you gain elevation you will find a winter snowpack transitioning to a spring snowpack. Today in the Telkwas, we found observed crust to about 1600m on all aspects. Above 1600m the crust continues up solar aspects into the alpine. In most places, this crust did not breakdown over the day. There was a light, northerly wind and temperatures that were cool at times. We observed several avalanches of varying ages that occurred over the last two weeks. We suspect the most recent of these could have occurred within the last 2 days. Most avalanches were caused by cornices failing and pulling persistent slabs avalanches from the slopes below. This weekend we are expecting warm temperatures and anticipate more avalanches like those described above.