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
Considerable (3)
Conservative terrain selection is highly recommended.
Choose gentle, low consequence lines and avoid overhead hazard, especially during periods of sun.
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
15 to 40 cm of new snow fell in the last storm creating widespread and reactive storm slabs. The new snow may overload persistent weak layers in the upper to mid snowpack. There is strong potential for storm slabs to step down to these deeper layers which include:
Facets/surface hoar/crust from early March buried 25-50 cm.
Facets/surface hoar/crust from mid-February buried 40-90 cm
Facets/surface hoar/crust from late January buried 80-120 cm.
The rest of the snowpack is well settled with no other layers of concern.
Avalanche Activity
Tues/Wed: Several size 1-1.5 natural and skier-triggered storm and wind slab avalanches occurred.
Mon: A few natural and skier triggered storm slab and wind slab avalanches were reported up to size 2.5 (very large). Some of these avalanches stepped downto persistent weak layers.
Looking forward: Storm slabs are expected to remain reactive and may step down to deeper persitstent weak layers.