Weather

Happy New Year everyone. As far as snowpack, things have been busy yet subtle. Significant snow sits at sea level while a relatively shallow snowpack is in the upper mountains. Winds have smoothed in micro features, though not enough snow exists to fill in the bigger stuff. Warm temperatures followed by light rain early this week left a crust to 2000 feet. Friday brought 10 inches of snow to sea level with light east wind. Bonding of this new snow should be suspect. Avalanche observations have been limited.

Expect rapidly cooling temperatures and increasing northerly outflow wind through the weekend into next week. The highway will probably not see any avalanche activity. Backcountry users should be wary of changing wind loads above tree line.