Avalanche Forecast

Moderate - Due to the number of field observations

Thursday night: Clear with light southeast winds.Friday: Mainly clear with cloud increasing over the day and light flurries beginning in the evening. Light southwest winds, increasing overnight. Alpine high temperatures around -1 with freezing levels near 1400 metres.Saturday: Mainly cloudy with scattered flurries bringing about 5 cm of new snow. Light south winds. Alpine high temperatures around -1 with freezing levels near 1300 metres, rising to 2200 metres overnight.Sunday: Cloudy with moderate rain transitioning to snow over the day and bringing an estimated 20 cm of new snow. Alpine high temperatures around zero with freezing levels plummeting from 2000 to 900 metres over the day.

No avalanches have been reported in the region. Please submit any observations you have to the Mountain Information Network here.

The South Coast region currently holds a minimal snowpack that remains below threshold depth for avalanches in the North Shore mountains as well as below about 1500 metres everywhere else. Alpine areas near Squamish have the most snow, with a suspected 70 cm of settled snow on the ground. In these areas there may be a crust lower in the snowpack, however it is now suspected to be well bonded to the overlying storm snow.