Avalanche Forecast
Avalanche Bulletin - Glacier National Park
Elevated spring avalanche conditions. All permit areas are closed. Great day to go to the pool!
Avalanche Problem 1: Loose Wet
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Travel and Terrain Advice
- Avoid exposure to avalanche terrain, large avalanches may reach the end of run out zones.
Avalanche Problem 2: Wet Slabs
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Which Slopes?
Chances of Avalanches?
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Wet point releases have been gaining mass and in some cases releasing moist to wet slab avalanches as they progress down slope. These slides are running full path.
Travel and Terrain Advice
- Avoid exposure to avalanche terrain, large avalanches may reach the end of run out zones.
Avalanche Problem 3: Cornices
What Elevation?
Which Slopes?
Chances of Avalanches?
Expected Size?
Cornices are ripe and weakened by past warm weather. Avoid exposure to terrain below these large triggers.
Travel and Terrain Advice
- Avoid exposure to avalanche terrain, large avalanches may reach the end of run out zones.
Avalanche Summary
Prolonged elevated avalanche danger right now. Numerous avalanches to size 3.5 in the highway corridor from the 27-28 of April. Several slab avalanches to size 3 in the backcountry mainly on South through West aspects. These slabs initiated as point releases gathered mass and overloaded a mid pack sliding surface.
Snowpack Summary
Moist to wet surface layers are now being insulated by storm snow above 1900m. Below 1900 the surface will be super saturated now by persistent rain overnight on top of already moist surface layers.
Weather Forecast
Scattered flurries, light northeast winds and a freezing level around 1900m today. Freezing level expected to rise to 2100m Monday with some solar input.
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Surface layers are somewhere between moist and saturated depending on elevation. Point releases can be expected throughout the day today and may gain mass becoming large slides.