Snow is falling at Silvern Lakes

Today, we rode at Silvern Lakes. About 15cm of new snow has fallen in the past few days, refreshing riding conditions. In sheltered areas, the snow is unaffected by wind. We dug a snowpit at 1560m and found 180cm of snow. We were not able to produce any results during a compression test. Right now, we are looking closely at our upper snowpack with stormy conditions in the forecast. At treeline, around 20cm of new snow sits over 20 cm of faceted snow on a 2-3cm crust from late January. This faceted snow may fail as a weak layer in the coming days with the incoming storm. The crust may act as a great sliding surface for avalanches. In the alpine, previous drought surfaces were very textured from wind and may not have the same setup as treeline. Moving into this next storm cycle, we will keep an eye on how new snow bonds to the old surfaces. Snow height is variable in the Silvern Lakes area. We observed as little as 90cm of snow and up to almost 2 meters in sheltered areas at treeline. There was light snow throughout the day, and temps warming to -1 by noon.