YESTERDAY:
Sunrise was at 08:10 Hrs Thursday.2240 meters -7, Winds were 40-45 KPH E--Horstman Hut
1860 meters -3, Winds were 10-25 KPH W --Rendezvous
1570 meters -4, trace in 12 Hrs, trace in 24 Hrs, Base 151 cm--Catskinner
FORECAST:
A weak slow moving frontal boundary will push through this morning in a Southerly flow aloft. Light precip will taper to flurries by this afternoon with dry cloudy weather for tonight into Saturday in a North Westerly flow aloft. FL will rise to around 1000 m. Weak ridging for Saturday but may only see a few sunny breaks in the morning with a mix of sun and cloud. Another weak front arrives Saturday night into Sunday morning. Flurries Sunday afternoon with a brief drying trend until Sunday night when a front arrives bringing light to moderate precip into Monday. A more active front arrives for Tuesday. Guesstimates: 2-6 cm by Saturday am, 4-8 cm by Sunday am, 3-6 cm by Monday am, 12-18 cm by Tuesday am.
Timing of some of the fronts is difficult on a 24 hr forecast, there has been some significant differences in some of the models.
AVALANCHE ACTIVITY:

Sz 2.5 on the South end of Cowboy Ridge observed Yesterday afternoon.
Avalanche Summary
On Thursday there was a report of a remotely triggered (from a distance of 20m) size 2.5 deep persistent slab avalanche on a west aspect at 1930 m on Cowboy Ridge. The fracture line was up to 200 cm deep.
On Wednesday there were numerous size 2 explosives controlled storm slab avalanches reported running in the alpine and treeline. As well there were several persistent and one deep persistent slab size 2.5-3 ranging in depth from 100-150 cm.
Reports on Monday and Tuesday show a few explosives controlled storm slab avalanches running size 1-2 as well as a few human triggered storm slab and loose dry avalanches size 1-1.5.
Snowpack Summary
Over 150 cm of recent storm snow from the past week has seen extensive wind effect at upper elevations, with scoured windward aspects, wind slabs in lee features and growing cornices at ridgetop.
The snowpack is currently quite complex. The layer of greatest concern is a melt-freeze crust from early December, found around 100-200 cm deep in the snowpack. This crust may have surface hoar or sugary faceted grains sitting above it. There have been several recent large natural and human triggered avalanches on this layer and new snow loads as well as large loads from storm slab avalanches have potential to trigger these layers.
INFORMATION & OBSERVATIONS:
Awesome light just before sunrise Thursday am. Looking clear to the East.LOCAL AVALANCHE CANADA MIN REPORTS:
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