Considerable avalanche danger remains as temperatures begin to rise
This past winter began with a very complicated snowpack forming, leading to extremely dangerous conditions in most of British Columbia’s mountain ranges. Now as a colder-than-normal spring finally starts to see some warming temperatures, those deep warm layers could be a problem again.
“In a lot of areas we haven’t seen as much avalanche activity while it stayed cold over the last few weeks — months even — but definitely starting later this week and into the weekend we’re going to see our first real big warm up, and that’s going to cause these problems to reemerge.” The winter began cold and dryer than normal and so far this spring has been colder than normal. Snow depth was just slightly less than normal, but due to the way the weather patterns have progressed, the really weak snowpack structure that was set up at the beginning of the season has persisted throughout.
“This problem that we have this season complicates that and makes it even more likely for large avalanches to occur during that and the real key is to just not go into steeper, high-consequence avalanche terrain especially when it’s warming up,” Horton said.
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