Alpine Conditions

Sub-Alpine Conditions

Travel & Terrain advice:
A limited cover of crust covered snow exists on isolated south and east aspects and high alpine ridges / plains, travel in the alpine and sub-alpine requires extra caution. The crust hardness and thickness are inconsistent, both supportive and breakable / localised and widespread. With a healthy hoar growth overnight… in short, it’s tough out there. Tripping / colliding with obscured rocks and bushes resulting in sliding on ice is cause for extra caution.

Regional Community Observations:
Tracks are all generally open and clear, although icy, almost luge like, on shady sub-alpine aspects.

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Observations Summary

Snow Surface Conditions Summary

Recent snowfall on the 1st June is sitting on bushes and grass, with some persistent preexisting base at higher alpine elevations from the previous big storm mid May. There’s skiable snow around with a smorgasbord of thinly veiled hazards lurking just beneath the surface.

There is limited 20/40cm cover of snow on aspects lee to the north and west, and shaded areas. In the alpine this snow consists of a breakable and supportive crusts. Buried beneath the crust is a layer 10cm/20cm of faceted dry low density snow, above another layer of hard high density, rain effected, now frozen hard pack snow from a storm cycle in mid May. these observations are based on isolated aspects south and east, at alpine elevations.

Alpine depth: 30-50cm cm
Snow condition: frozen / thawing, wet low density snow.
Sub-Alpine depth: 10-20cm
Snow condition: Wet, high density snow

A dusting of dry cold faceted snow and rime observed at higher alpine elevations only.
Alpine depth: 10cm
Snow condition: low density snow and rotten rime.
Sub-Alpine depth: 0cm
Snow condition: -

Weather Summary

We are currently under the influence of a circling cool air mass that is slowly tracking eastward. Cold and settled conditions prevailing.