The weekly summary is here. After a few weeks of dealing with low-likelihood slab avalanche concerns and springtime problems, it’s back to winter-like concerns and a new generation of persistent slabs.

The weekly summary is here! Bluebird skies and mild temperatures ring in spring, and the snowpack is making its way to diurnal, sunny aspects have a big head start. A winterlike snowpack still exists for northerly aspects, where soft snow surfaces can still be found.

The weekly summary is here. Easterly winds led to some unusual drifting, and persistent slab avalanche activity has quieted down. The possibility is still there, as shown in a recent remote trigger above the Slate River (pictured below). We don’t have a spring snowpack quite yet, stay heads up.

The weekly summary is here. Backcountry riders are least likely to affect weak layers where the snowpack is deeper. Most recent human-triggered avalanches have occurred in places where the snowpack is shallower, less than 180 cm total depth.

The weekly summary is here. We’ve been bobbing back and forth between blizzard and spring-like conditions recently, with more of this pattern on the way. Snowpit tests continue to show the 2/2 and 2/13 weak layers as the main potential points of failure in the upper snowpack.