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.
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Another sunny day is expected Saturday, with freezing levels reaching mountain top. Avalanche hazard will start as Low, but will quickly deteriorate with daytime warming and strong solar imputes —start and finish early.
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Snowpack Discussion
Hard surface crusts exist to ridgetops in the AM on solar aspects, and at treeline and below on northerly aspects. The top 10-20cm was moistening at the ski hills in the afternoon.
North alpine slopes hold 5 - 15 cm of dry snow over firm surfaces. The March 27 crust is 30-70 cm deep and extends to about 2500m on North slopes, reaching ridge top on solar aspects.
Below the settled mid-pack, weak facets and depth hoar remain.
Avalanche Activity
Solar heating contributed to increased avalanche activity predominantly on South and West aspects Friday. By mid afternoon we were seeing the crust break down which resulted in a loose wet avalanche cycle to size 2. We also received reports of cornice releases.
No avalanches reported on the persistent weak layer since the last warm-up on April 18th, when there were 2-3 size 2.5 avalanches off Pilot Mtn.