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Weather: Periods of snow, strong winds and warmer temperatures will continue in the region right through to Friday. Heavy snowfall (10-20 cm) is forecast on Wednesday, with another 15-30 cm overnight Wednesday and into Thursday. This will be topped by additional snow on Friday before things dry up for the weekend. Forecast winds are moderate to strong (30-70 km/h) from the southwest, so hold onto your goggles. Freezing levels should reach 1300 m on Wednesday before dropping back down to valley bottoms on Thursday.

 

Snowpack: Additional snowfalls have added another 10-20 cm of snow to the snowpack, overlying various crusts and windslabs. Strong southwest winds on Wednesday transported this snow to lee slopes, forming yet another windslab. Some areas report that winds scoured some windward slopes back down to a crust from mid-January. Easy stability test results are reported in the top 35 cm of the snowpack, failing either on storm snow weaknesses or on a surface hoar layer buried on Jan. 22. The forecast strong southwest winds will continue to build windslabs on north and east aspects, and these slabs should become more reactive to human triggers.

 

Avalanche Activity: Observed avalanches were surprisingly few, limited to some small explosive controlled avalanches on northwest facing slopes in the alpine and small natural avalanches. Natural avalanche activity should increase on Thursday and Friday with increasing storm snow amounts and continuing southwest winds.

Forecast of Avalanche Danger Up To Friday Evening (January 30, 2004)

 

Alpine – HIGH

 

Treeline – HIGH

Below Treeline – CONSIDERABLE

 

Travel Advisory: Despite the lack of significant avalanche activity, danger levels are forecast to remain high at treeline and above until Friday. The danger may decrease if the snowfall is lower than forecast, but it will become increasingly probable for human triggers to initiate avalanches, especially in wind exposed areas

 

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