Blue skies and a few high clouds yesterday turned to snowflakes last night and we woke up this morning to around 5 cms of powder in Echoland with snow still falling but at most around 1 cm/hour. Temperatures are fairly warm with -1 degree at the base and -3 degrees at 1500m measured at 8:30 this morning with no wind to speak of so its possible we’ll get the fresh snow melting if the sun appears today. Blue skies forecast for tomorrow…
Backcountry Travel Advisory:
The snowpack is generally stabilising but there will still be areas of instability. Warm temperatures in general so South facing solar aspects especially will warm quickly increasing the possibility of wet slides – exercise more caution as temperatures increase. A lot of that snow has come down especially at lower elevations but as always travel carefully.
Conditions are generally getting better but as well as the risk last Friday’s snow sliding there could be old instabilities especially with warming even going down to the rain-crust of January 12th. It’s a big snow-pack and its all got to come down at some point…
Avalanche Hazard:
Alpine: Considerable
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:
Light Westerlies.
VISIBILITY:
Average
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Goryu/47:
BASE DEPTH:150 cm(at the base); 350 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