Exshaw, AB

Alberta Canada

Forecast Point 4,262 ft • 51.0606, -115.1595

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 Sun Jan 12 3:15pm MST 15 hours ago Until Mon Jan 13 4:00pm MST

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Snowpack Discussion

About 4-5cm of recent snow along the divide from light flurries. Not enough to make the skiing better or increase the hazard at this time. Recent winds have created some wind slab development in widespread areas such as cross loaded gullies and the lee sides of mountain passes. The snowpack varies a lot. Thicker areas at tree line and above with close to 100cm of snow have a much denser snowpack while most areas below tree line have 40-50cm and consist mostly of facets(sugar snow).

The weak basal facets are still a concern and have a potential to be triggered from thin snowpack areas which are still plentiful at this time.

Avalanche Activity

No new avalanches were observed by a road patrol today.