Beautiful weekend and a small amount of snow last night, then woke up to rain on the roof this morning for the first time since January 12. Temperatures dropped around 7:30 and the precipitation turned back to large snowflakes for a while. The current temperature in Happo is 1 degree and we’re seeing a rain/snow combination here. Snow is falling at higher altitudes and Happo has reported since yesterday around 10-15 cms up top of fairly heavy snow. Forecast to clear up and another sunny day tomorrow…
Backcountry Travel Advisory:
The North face had good stability yesterday and it seems a lot of the new snow slides that were going to come down have done so. The South face has been looking pretty desecrated with a lot of cracks and holes opening up. Last nights heavy snow will be sitting on a melt freeze crust on the solar radiated South faces so small wet slides are likely. Also watch out for wind deposited layers on NE slopes which could go especially with warming.
Avalanche danger sits at Moderate at all levels however this will increase as it warms. Stability will decrease with more snow and decrease more rapidly with rain.
Avalanche Hazard:
Alpine: Moderate
Tree line: Moderate
Below Tree Line: Moderate
See Below for International Danger scale classifications or click on the Canadian Avalanche Association web page for the International Danger Scale.
TEMPERATURE IN THE VILLAGE:
1 degrees C.
TEMPERATURE AT TOP OF MOUNTAIN:
-3 degrees C.
WIND:
Calm with some light Westerlies.
VISIBILITY:
Average due to snow
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Goryu/47:
BASE DEPTH:150 cm(at the base); 350 cm(at 1500m)
Happo-One:
BASE DEPTH:150 cm(at the base); 285 cm(at 1500m)
Tsugaike:
BASE DEPTH:330 cm(at the base); 230 cm(at 1500m)
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LIFT OPERATION:
Goryu Toomi, Hakuba 47, Happo-One, Tsugaike Kogen, Iwatake, Cortina, Sanosaka, Sun Alpina, Minekata, Hakuba Highland, Yanaba, all open