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Cloudburst -- good shape! Mind the cornice!

Published: Apr 25th, 2026

A good spring mission to cloudburst. We utilized the logging road network to hike up to 1000m where we found skinnable and skiiable conditions. Be very careful of the summit cornice. It's barely hanging in there!

Cloudburst Mountain

Published: Apr 19th, 2026

Brew-Callaghan Area

Published: Apr 5th, 2026

Skiied from Brew to Callaghan. Hard crust in open alpine slopes in the morning and started softening @ ~10am and we didn't experience hard crust for the rest of the day all the way to 2,300m; crust never formed in the trees. Towards the end of the day @ ~6pm we found surprisingly good powder in sun-sheltered N aspects down to ~2000m, but most other N aspects had a breakable crust which transitioned to pure moist snow below 1,500m. Open aspects down to ~1,000m had refrozen by the evening; it definitely feels like we're entering spring conditions with an evident diurnal cycle on all but the most sheltered areas (at least up to 2,300m). Many steep W faces all produced significant wet loose from the Friday warming with not much new activity noticed throughout the day. Never got cold enough for any avi debris we skiied through to refreeze. Experienced a significant but isolated whumpf on a flat rounded ridgetop @ ~1,950m. Not much activity on N faces aside some small wet loose on the steepest faces. Didn't notice any fresh cornice activity, but some isolated wind-lip features did have some partial collapses in relatively mellow terrain. These features seemed stable enough that we noticed a few snowmobile tracks hucking off of them. Also saw snowmobile tracks in restricted zones, but I digress.

Cypress Peak Area

Published: Apr 4th, 2026

Beautiful sunny day but very wet/heavy snow. Saw some debris from a large past avalanche in the bowl, and saw some very big cornices up on Cypress. First and last 6km involved a lot of boot packing before we could fully switch to skinning.

Sproatt Saturday

Published: Apr 4th, 2026

Toasty one! The heat really got to treeline today resulting in wet loose naturals. In the morning there was wind/storm slab 10-30cm at treeline that became iso (hot pow) on a bomber crust resulting in natural and human (sled + ski) small wet slab avalanches in the afternoon. We sledded cautiously avoiding wind loaded features and rode some hot pow mellow lines.

Icecap glide avalanche

Published: Mar 30th, 2026

Some avy pics during the AR event or wind loading event after up the Pemberton Icecap. Seems like the whole snowpack slid off a ridge on Torah Peak . GE pic for location

Sproatt conditions

Published: Mar 26th, 2026

No coverage from parking lot but skinnable after 15 min of hiking. The road has enough coverage for careful skiing but watch for rocks. Coverage improved rapidly with elevation and above 1000m. Light to moderate snow throughout the day, cold temps and no sun made for great skiing conditions. 30-40 cm of unconsolidated snow that was very well preserved in the trees. Below that a supportive crust. Hand pints on north aspects 1300-1600 m showed resistant planer results. No signs of instabilities. Did not venture higher than 1600 m due to poor vis and wind.

🌧️ Do you like Piña Colada's...? 🎵 🌧️🍍

Published: Mar 18th, 2026

We sledded up Miller Ridge north of Pemberton today in the middle of the absolute deluge that is hitting the coast. Conditions were pretty severe with non-stop rain and strong south to southwest wind above treeline. The alpine needs time to adjust yet. Visibility is near zero, getting there is rough, and it’s not worth it right now. We avoided all avalanche terrain and linked low-angle slopes to get out and have a look around at the impact of the storm. It rained up to about 1950 m, with precipitation just starting to transition to snow around 2000 m. During a brief break in the clouds, we saw that large storm slabs had failed naturally in a north-facing alpine bowl across the valley with impressive propagation (see photo). In another north-facing bowl just above treeline, we observed small slabs that entrained snow as they descended the slope and resulted in loose wet avalanches. (see second photo). At and below treeline, the storm’s impact on the snowpack feels like it has peaked. Rain was actively draining through the snowpack, with runnels forming on the surface. Skiing quality was, frankly, terrible, but sled travel wasn’t the worst. That said, this is very much a “making lemonade out of lemons” kind of day. We had a good look around, stayed disciplined with terrain, and came away pretty encouraged for the future. This storm is a full reset for the snowpack, which should set the table nicely for spring adventures once temperatures return to normal.

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Published: Mar 17th, 2026

We sledded up Miller Ridge north of Pemberton today in the middle of the absolute deluge 🌊 that is hitting the coast. Conditions were pretty severe with non stop rain and strong south to southwest wind above treeline. The alpine needs time to adjust yet. Visibility is near zero, getting there is rough, and it’s not worth it right now. We avoided all avalanche terrain and linked low-angle slopes to get out and have a look around at the impact of the storm. It rained up to about 1950 m, with precipitation just starting to transition to snow around 2000 m. During a brief break in the clouds, we saw that large storm slabs had failed naturally in a north-facing alpine bowl across the valley with impressive propagation (see photo). In another north-facing bowl just above treeline, we observed small slabs that entrained snow as they descended the slope and resulted in loose wet avalanches. (see second photo). At and below treeline, the storm’s impact on the snowpack feels like it has peaked. Rain was actively draining through the snowpack, with runnels forming on the surface. Skiing quality was, frankly, terrible, but sled travel wasn’t the worst. That said, this is very much a “making lemonade out of lemons” kind of day. 🍋We had a good look around, stayed disciplined with terrain, and came away pretty encouraged for the future. This storm is a full reset for the snowpack, which should set the table nicely for spring adventures once temperatures return to normal.

Journeyman, wet slab

Published: Mar 16th, 2026

S2 Full Propagation

Published: Mar 14th, 2026

Touchy windslabs

Published: Mar 13th, 2026

Remote triggered sz 1.5 wind slab on a steep convexity from about 30 m away, at around 1500 m on the cloudburst up track . Lots of whumpfing. Felt surprisingly touchy !

Rainbow Mountain Summit, N Glacier

Published: Mar 8th, 2026

Skied to 🌈 summit from the usual approach (Callaghan). Low down we carried the skis a bit after the xc trails. In the trees was icy, ski crampons mandatory, did not corn up in afternoon. At Hanging Lake, rain crust/fully consolidated snow turned to dust on firm ?rain crust with some apparently new small runnels visible on the surface near the lake. Above 1500 m, no runnels evident. Also above 1500 m, dust on crust became styrofoam with variable soft surface or firm icy/rimy surface. Some softening on steeper W/SW aspects later in the day, with shaded/lower angle slopes not softening. On north glacier, pleasant Styrofoam skiing with minimal icy spots/rime compared to S aspect. No whumphing or shooting cracks; however between 1400 and 1500 m some settling of snow directly under skis only.

Appa Glacier

Published: Mar 2nd, 2026

On Sunday the winds were moderate to strong and wind transport was moderate. These avy's were not noticed on Sunday. When riding today (Monday) these avy's were observed. Common traits were below cornice or rock face and northerly facing that had lots of wind loading. Note most slides start zones are in the shade, on several you can see two different layers.

Avy activity

Published: Mar 1st, 2026

Rode the icecap out to south creek. There is very little avy activity on the appa and longspur glaciers especially compared to reports up the Duffey. The few were size one and start zone were below a cornice or lee of cliff band. Once in South creek there seemed to be more activity with this one size 2 slab avy again below a loaded cliff band and this large cornice drop.

Gin Peak

Published: Feb 28th, 2026

Found soft, low density snow 1200-1500 m on north and northwest aspects of Gin. Wind affected snow observed just west of Gin peak and rime observed on trees on south side of Gin near peak. Sunny, some slight overcast that preserved snow quality/low density during the morning. Observed wet loose natural release by 2 pm at lower elevations around 1200 m west aspect, with no tree coverage. Snow pack around 1200 m and below became wet and heavy by 2 pm, tree skiing from hanging lake and below was a bit chunky in some areas and not ideal conditions.

Cayley wind slab

Published: Feb 28th, 2026

Avalanche Grizzly lake

Published: Feb 24th, 2026

Mid storm check

Published: Feb 7th, 2026

Rain from the lot until around 1400m. Foot pen 18cm on hard crust. Old tracks were set up very firm and low vis so limited exploring but inspiration to see so much snow falling and accumulating.

Puma conditions

Published: Jan 24th, 2026

Conditions as expected - hard supportive crust that barely melted except for the most exposed steeper sunny aspects. Surface hoar growing to impressive sizes in sheltered areas. Travel conditions were tough on skis, but excellent for booting.

Mt Fee sufferfest

Published: Jan 19th, 2026

Attempt on Mt Fee with Glen and Lytton. Started on FSR west side of fee and did a long approach. While on FSR we saw surface hoar as low as 750m. Not as prominent on the alpine slopes. The trek over the alpine areas was super crusty and hard. Occasional post holing but travel was super easy on snowshoes. No signs of sketchy conditions. Even end of day with the sun blazing and around 6-8 degrees, it wasn’t too loose. No loose slides at all. No other parties out with us. Saw old slab avalanches. Likely 4-6 days old. Largest were 2.5-3 in size. Likely naturally activated from rock faces. Great time to get out alpine climbing. Skiing will be miserable.

Gin

Published: Jan 10th, 2026

Incredibly deep (re: absolutely swimming, thigh deep, face shots ... 🤿) riding conditions sheltered at treeline. Was snowing all day. Winds light at ridge top. Very limited vis so we stayed in the bigger trees and rode corridors. Lots of sluffing and small slides triggered on steeps but no significant propagation.

Hanging Lake/Gin Peak Area Storm Slabs

Published: Jan 10th, 2026

Gin Peak

Published: Dec 27th, 2025

Weather was quite cold (-12 C at backcountry parking lot at 8:45 am, and a few degrees colder at Hanging Lake), apparently unlike the days before and after. Many avalanche crowns from earlier days visible starting at the top of the boulder field just before Hanging Lake (see crowns just below the trees in the pic) and on the east-facing slopes off the lake. We observed no signs of instability throughout the day. Most aspects had great deep, if not the lightest, powder, with only a thin wind affected crust on south-ish aspects. Coverage in the trees is quite good, but there are still a few creeks to watch out for on the skiout.

Brew hut trip

Published: Dec 27th, 2025

Trees below cloudburst

Published: Dec 27th, 2025

Poked around toward cloudburst bench route off chance creek. Broke trail to ~1400m. Didn’t notice any instabilities BTL but they sure showed up at TL. Slabby and moderately wind affected on northern slopes. didn’t feel super reactive, but snow definitely needs more time to settle. Hoar growing in the meadows. -5C at the car. Bright blue skies looking behind us on S facing slopes, but we were fully sheltered from the sun all day once out of the meadows.

Deep and touchy at Hanging Lake

Published: Dec 26th, 2025

Nice and deep on the slopes around Hanging Lake, with easily 30cm of ski pen on the up track (thanks to those who put it in!) and at least knee deep on the way down. Snow was pretty heavy and slabby though so riding wasn’t perfect. Lots of reactivity to our tracks, small sized avalanches were popping off all convex slopes. Very important to ski cut and stay out of connected terrain today. See pictures for a size one we cut in some steep trees. Evidence of a recent cycle on all aspects running up to size 2. Day started off snowing and then we got some sunny breaks by the afternoon.

Deep powder at Hanging Lake!

Published: Dec 21st, 2025

First time exploring Olympic Park, wasn't disappointed. Thanks to the folks that did a mega job breaking trail! On uptrack ~1000m, some spots had ~80cm of new unconsolidated snow on top of a stiffer layer ~20cm (total ~100cm storm snow). Ski pen at 1600 N ~20-25cm. Boot pen mid-thigh. Random HSTs on the uptrack showed some of spatial variability, but mostly unconsolidated snow in varying amounts. Went to the steep treed slopes just before Hanging Lake with intent on checking out Gin Peak. Vis was poor in the upper treeline slopes with extremely flat lighting, so we settled on mellow north facing densely treed slopes above Hanging Lake for the first lap. Noticed no instabilities, nor slab formations so went back for a second lap and rode open treed slopes on the same face, slightly steeper rolls ~30-35 deg. On the ski out, snow got noticeably heavier around 1100-1200m, and just plain wet for the last 200m descent. Many creeks exposed, but send-able. 0C at the car.

Hanging Lake/Gin Conditions

Published: Dec 20th, 2025

We checked out the trees at Gin for you. If you're into adventure skinning, the entire trail is indeed skinnable. If you have long legs, you can even cross all the creeks without taking your skis off. About half a foot of snow under tree cover starting at the Hanging Lake trailhead sign, which quickly became several meters of fairly wet powder. Trail-breaking was tough. Turned around at Hanging Lake due to high winds and full white-out conditions, but the boulder field offered a nice run, if you kept your eyes peeled for holes. Snow near the lake was much drier, and very wind affected in some places. No avalanche signs observed, but didn't stick around long. The ski out was not super pleasant with no base, but it went. Walked the final couple hundred meters near the bottom to the large trailhead sign, then skis on again to exit via the resort. Honestly, the conditions were better than expected for the time of year. Should be solid in a couple weeks, if the winter weather holds.

Metal Dome Glacier

Published: Nov 28th, 2025

Parked truck at 1300m snow free Skiable at 1450m HS 85 cm at 1640m plateau Skiing good above 1700m Below 1700m surface crust mostly supportive Skied NW facing glacier with soft snow, boot top pow below ridge top E facing couloir 2000m breakable crust, great turns on the fan below. This couloir had debris from a size 1 that likely occurred during the last storm on Saturday. Nothing else moving.

Brandywine Mountain

Published: May 31st, 2024

Cornices falling off; multiple skier triggered and natural wet loose Typical spring conditions Snow was slushy and heavy in the afternoon

Brandywine slush

Published: May 4th, 2024

Snow starts at around 900 m on the road, and is mostly continuous with a few bare patches. Good coverage from upper trailhead. Very warm at the start and no overnight freeze. About 10-15 cm of slush sat on top of a thin crust. A number of wet slabs released in the afternoon probably as a consequence of the unexpected sun. Skiing quality was OK, with better less heavy snow above 2000 m. Firmer snow on the sleds tracks. Very quiet day and lots of snow left. Some massive cornices still lingering around.

Cypress Peak Storm Slab

Published: Mar 29th, 2024

Brandywine

Published: Mar 29th, 2024

Gin Peak

Published: Mar 18th, 2024

Skinned up hanging lake to Gin peak, trail is in good shape with a few thin creek bridges. slopes that were covered by trees kept the moist surface snow overnight while uncovered slopes firmed up and had a 1cm crust on the surface. sun affected slopes were prime terrain for wet slides and we gave these a very wide berth. steep true north-facing terrain still holds some soft powder but this was in very short sections.

Journeyman area

Published: Mar 16th, 2024

No instabilities observed on the ridge route we took towards the peak. Some crowns were seen in the steep neighborhood areas, but none on our route. Decent skiing in the alpine, considering the warm weather, but terrible in the trees.

Reactive snow up Shovelnose

Published: Mar 9th, 2024

Challenging travel up shovelnose creek with snowline starting the the Squamish valley road. FL ~1000m but heavy snow up to 1450m. HN~50-60cm making travel difficult on foot or on sleds. Experienced multiple whumps while skinning the upper cut blocks. Rolls over the road were remotely triggered seemingly below the new storm snow as we walked past, with a wide propagation, see photo. No obs above 1450m but snow quality was improving rapidly. Just noticed another SR sz1 in left of picture 2 while reviewing this MIN. Slope angle <25deg.

Hanging lake

Published: Mar 9th, 2024

Rained turned to sleet at the parking lot at 930am. 100cm of storm snow. The party who broke trail report some whumfing above the lake. Other parties reported seeing a 1.5 Natural in a boulder field and size 1 Skier accidental in a gully. It was a point the skies straight down the powder day. Got soaking wet after one run so called it day. Every type of wet snow was found below treeline.

Boarder triggered avalanche

Published: Mar 5th, 2024

Deep at hanging lake

Published: Mar 2nd, 2024

Great skiing on all aspects. Many people skiing steep pitches without results aside from some remote triggers on unsupported slopes(see avalanche tab). Most mellower runs were quickly tracked. Probably 10cm of new snow through the day with the sun coming out briefly in the morning

Hanging Lake

Published: Mar 2nd, 2024

Hanging lake blue-collar day

Published: Mar 1st, 2024

Had to work hard to get up but worth the journey. Quite touchy on anything >30 deg. Did a few ski cuts on isolated convexities and triggered sz. 0.5 with 30-60cm crowns. Not consolidated. Skiing was fantastic at treeline with 115cm HST and 3m snowpack @ ~1500m.

Gin peak

Published: Feb 17th, 2024

Hanging lake trail is thin. Had to walk first 15-20 mins then enough base to ski but fairly dirty for at least half way up and icey. Ski crampons mandatory. Lots of snow at the lake and above but totally wind scoured so extremely variable. Stayed pretty much to mellow terrain up to Gin peak. Lots of snow cracking and hollow drum like response high up but seemed pretty stable. Did see any crack propagation beyond skin track. Skiing quite variable and descent down from hanging lake was adventurous. Beautiful day otherwise.

Completely wind scoured

Published: Feb 17th, 2024

Snow in the Brew Hut area was extremely wind scoured/packed. Skiing through Bullet proof ice, rock hard sastrugi (over a foot in size in places), breakable crust, and soft powder all with in 10m of each other. Slope aspect didn’t seem to help matters. Did not see any snow instability issues. Consistent snow cover did not start until 1320m.

Rainbow/Hanging Lake

Published: Feb 16th, 2024

On our way up to Rainbow Mountain we found +10 loud whumpfs with shooting cracks propagating cracks as far as 20ft away in some instances while on quite mellow slopes under 20 degrees. Decided after having so many of these on almost flat and very mellow terrain to turn around.

Tobias

Published: Jan 18th, 2024

Skied near tonic peak today. Ridge top were wind scoured with stiff wind slab on N/E aspect below ridge top. Triggers a couple of small slabs on convex slopes near ridge top. 10-25cm thick 10m wide Skiing through trees was excellent with boot deep penetration.

Gin Peak

Published: Jan 18th, 2024

Skiied north aspect of Gin peak. Triggered small wind slab directly off the peak, starting on steep convexity in thin snow. Further down the slope another party did the same. Crown ~4m across and ~25cm at deepest point. Skiing was better in trees - new snow sitting on chunky crust in exposed terrain. Heavier powder than expected. No natural avalanches observed.

Sootip

Published: Jan 14th, 2024

No signs of instability observed to where we turned around at ~1600m. Snow coverage still quite poor below ~1100m.

Prime Rib Rainbow.

Published: Jan 14th, 2024

Cold Clear temps. Light Northerly winds. Skid decent powder in sheltered areas @ above treeline and below. steep slope had little exposure to wind loading. Very dense slabs and major wind effect were found on mellow slopes along ridge on mellow ski runs. no avalanches observed in our ski area. East Face of Rainbow from our viewpoint looked wind scoured and old avalanche debris was seen at the bottom below the glacier.

Rainbow Mountain Outing

Published: Jan 7th, 2024

Great ski day. Excellent snow below 1,600 meters Some wind affect in Alpine above 1,600m. Two Size 2 avalanches from storm cycle from previous day. Avalanches were primarily on west aspects. Stability was generally good. Wind slabs in alpine were stable though we did stay away from steeper north aspects but due to the

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