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
High (4)
Avoid all avalanche terrain during periods of high hazard.
Rain and high freezing levels can trigger avalanches on buried weak layers.
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Snowpack Discussion
We have received up to 30 mm of recent precipitation; snow above 1500 m and rain below this elevation. Expect deeper and more reactive deposits on north—and east-facing slopes. This overlies 40 cm of recent snow. Expect to find rain-soaked or moist snow below 1500 m.
This overlies 50 cm of settled snow and then a melt-freeze crust on southerly slopes and at lower elevations.
A weak layer formed in early March found down 150 to 230 cm, consists of a crust on all aspects except high north-facing slopes. In some areas, a layer of surface hoar is found just above the crust.
Weak layers formed in mid-February and late January are now buried 200 to 300 cm deep.
Below this, the snowpack is well-settled and strong.
Avalanche Activity
On Tuesday, numerous natural and explosive triggered wet slab avalanches were reported up to size 3.
On Monday, numerous large slab avalanches were seen up to size 2.5.
We expect avalanche activity to continue with both wet and large slab avalanches being easy to trigger during this warm period.