Ground Truthing in Crowsnest

You know the avalanche danger is high when you get to watch natural avalanches happening?‼️ A north west wind was cranking in the Crowsnest today, redistributing all the recent storm snow into very touchy wind slabs. We were observing the alpine from some non avalanche terrain and saw a few small (size 1) slab avalanches cascade off the headwalls into the fans below. A half hour later we witnessed a large (size 2) avalanche with an exciting powder cloud. Even though we are not getting new snow right now, the conditions are still very dynamic with so much snow available for transport and persistent weak layers in play. 


Check out the info in the Special Public Avalanche Warning (SPAW) at avalanche.ca

Witnessed 3 natural avalanches (from non avalanche terrain) in the span of an hour.

Lots of snow available for transport building fresh windslabs.