Panorama Mountain Resort

A dusting of fresh snow can be expected above 1500 m, but surfaces will quickly transition to moist/wet snow during the heat of the day. Warm weather over the past week has melted surfaces everywhere except high north-facing terrain (above roughly 2300 m). While there have been no recent avalanches on buried weak layers, there are a few layers that could potentially be triggered with intense warming or a heavy cornice fall. This includes a 30-60 cm deep crust layer from mid-March and the early November crust near the bottom of the snowpack.

Multiple days of above freezing temperatures have resulted in widespread size 1-2 wet loose avalanches on sun-exposed slopes since last Thursday. There were also natural cornice failures over this period, some as big as size 3. There were no reports of slab avalanches triggered by warming. A skier triggered wind slab of size 2 was reported on a north-facing slope in the south of the region on Friday. The last report of a persistent slab avalanche was from March 8 in the Golden area where a cornice fall triggered a size 3 avalanche on an steep east-facing slope in the alpine.

With relatively cooler temperatures on Monday you can still expect wet loose avalanches and cornice falls, but they will be less widespread than they were over the weekend.

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