TetonSnowInfo

Backcountry travelers are encouraged to make conservative decisions and to be content with cautious route selection as DANGEROUS avalanche conditions continue. Yesterday, five or six skier triggered slides were reported to the avalanche center and more may have occurred. No one was caught in these events, two of which hit traverses or skin tracks. The slides ranged in hardness from soft to hard and in sensitivity from very touchy remote triggers to stubborn slabs that required 'aggressive stomping', indicating their difficulty to predict. New wind slabs are forming at the high elevations on yesterdays snow surfaces. At all elevations, persistent weak snow layers lie at the interface between a dry period and when snow started to fall a week ago as well as deeper in the snowpack. These instabilities could be triggered at all elevations today and have the potential to be large at the mid and upper elevations.