Generally a warmer snowpack will settle more rapidly, and become denser and stronger than a cold snowpack. However, if the warming is too rapid, the snowpack will become very wet and unstable. Stay tuned to temperatures during your tour. In a cold snowpack, unstable conditions often persist longer because the settlement and strengthening process is slowed. Thus a shaded slope and a sunny slope in the same area can have different conditions.
Wind can change stability by redistributing snow.
Sunny and shaded slopes can have different stability. 82 total hits since Monday June 11. 0 hits today.