With a couple inches of new snow and drifting overnight, an elevated avalanche danger exists in exposed upper elevation terrain this weekend. Shallow avalanches of wind drifted snow are possible on some slopes up high facing the northern half of the compass where there is preexisting snow from October covering up the rocks and smoothing out the terrain. Even a small avalanche could pick up speed and run pretty far on the slick rime-crust. With extremely shallow snow covering up the rocks, any avalanche could be very dangerous. The shallowly buried, icy, and rock-hard rime-crust means people could easily slip, fall, and slide rapidly out of control even on slopes that are normally easy to travel on.

We will update this forecast as conditions warrant.