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.

The weekly summary is here. The 2/2 PWL still produces avalanches throughout the zone, with the slab depth variable above. Avalanche danger dropped in the deepest part of the forecasting area, while it is still easy to affect the 2/2 PWL in shallower snowpacks. Cornice fall was on the rise with recent wind events and warm-ups. New snow is expected on Sunday night (2/25)!

The weekly summary is here. The community mourns the loss of a precious life in an avalanche accident. A persistent weak layer buried 2/2 serves as the point of failure on many avalanches in the forecasting zone this past week. Snow continues to fall, periodically enveloping the valley in white.