Avalanche Forecast

Avalanche Forecasts are for use by experienced backcountry travelers in uncontrolled sidecountry and backcountry terrain. These forecasts and conditions do not apply to open, in-bounds terrain at ski resorts, which is subject to avalanche control by local resort ski patrol.

Avalanche Rating

Moderate (2)

Valid Tue Dec 10 4:00pm PST 7 hours ago Until Wed Dec 11 4:00pm PST

Assess for the bond of of the top snow layer before committing to high consequence terrain.

More Detail

To get the complete forecast with additional graphics and details, please view the Avalanche Canada Zone forecast provided by Avalanche Canada.

Snowpack Discussion

Around 10 to 30 cm of snow overlies a hard melt-freeze crust and perhaps isolated pockets of feathery surface hoar in wind-sheltered openings at treeline and alpine elevations. The crust is on the snow surface up to around 1300 m. Westerly wind may have formed deeper snow deposits in lee terrain features in wind-exposed terrain.

There are currently no deeper layers of concern.

Avalanche Activity

No new avalanches were reported on Monday. Looking forward, the most likely areas for riders to trigger avalanches are in lower alpine slopes, where pockets of buried surface hoar may exist under a slab of snow from last weekend.

Observations remain limited in this region. If you head into the backcountry, please post to the Mountain Information Network.