Bull
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 3rd, 2025Good from far, but far from good
<p>Beautiful sunny day in the Bull river today... Unfortunately we didn't get above the crust from the last few days of warm weather so the riding was hard crust to breakable crust. We found 50 cm of snow at 1600 m at our high point with a heavily facetted lower snowpack.
We saw several wet loose avalanches from the previous days sun. Some of them went to ground because of how shallow and facetted the snowpack is in this area. No new avalanches today though.
No wind, clear skies in the morning and increasing cloud this afternoon. </p>
southrockies,
Thursday 23rd March, 2023 2:40PM
Dust on crust in the Wildhorse
<p>Only 5 cm of new snow in the Wildhorse area, but a few recent wind slab avalanches (size 2) triggered beneath cornices on northeast slopes. Typical snow depths around treeline was 150 cm. You could easily punch through the crusts beneath the new snow into wallowly facets when sledding and skinning, but skied surprisingly well.</p>
forecaster,
Tuesday 14th March, 2023 4:10PM
Hemlock heaven
<p>Out at Lemon Lake today in the Bull River drainage, we skied a NW facing slope that doesn’t see much sun at this time of year, and enjoyed great, fast powder. We dug a hasty pit at 1600m, revealing a snowpack depth of 160 cm, with a strong crust 45 cm down. We had no significant snowpack test results, while the surface snow stayed dry with the temperature at -4. On the way in to our trailhead, we saw the debris of a Very Large avalanche (Size 3) out of an Alpine Bowl with East to South aspects in the start zone. Ran full path down into the Bull River. Probably a couple of days old, but difficult to say definitively. Note: the Bull River FSR is drivable from the dam for a couple of km but its very slick ice.</p>
southrockies,
Friday 17th February, 2023 5:10PM
Wildhorse river area
<p>20 to 30 cm of new snow. 145 cm snow depth at 2200m. Did a compression test on a SE facing 30 degree slope. We got a CTM 10 down 45 cm.
We had a great ski in open trees. Some wind transfer but no problematic wind slabs where we were. We avoided the alpine mainly due to visibility.</p>
Ski Kimberley,
Tuesday 31st January, 2023 7:20PM
Deep at Lakit
<p>Lakit lookout today we found 18 cm of new snow when we arrived and another 6 fell while we were there! There wasn't a breath of wind the entire time which was odd, but great for the skiing. Skiing down, we triggered lots of small, size 1, avalanches within the storm snow. They were spreading up to 15 m off our skis without any effort. We scrapped our plan to ski some 30 degree trees and stuck to low angle, safe slopes on our way out.</p>
southrockies,
Friday 27th January, 2023 5:20PM
Howling at Harrison
<p>90 cm of snow on the ground meant for terrible travel conditions. We punched to ground repeatedly on our sleds and skis. Climbed to 2300 m and dug a pit where we found the November weak layer alive and well! It failed in out tests 50 cm deep so we carefully descended to our snowmobiles.
The ice looked good from far though!</p>
southrockies,
Wednesday 25th January, 2023 5:10PM
Thuya Crk
<p>The day cleared off nicely. Snow travelled well with the supportive crust under the fresh snow.</p>
drijber,
Monday 9th January, 2023 8:20PM
Patmore NW bowl
<p>Point release avalanches on steep S facing slopes once warmed up. Snow quality on top of crust made for good skiing. No signs of instability on the N slopes skied today.</p>
drijber,
Sunday 1st January, 2023 7:40PM
Fort Steele
<p>Overnight avalanche cycle evident today with multiple 30cm crowns extending about one km along this north facing wall. In several places there were step down crowns about one metre deep and sympathetic avalanches in adjacent unsupported terrain.</p>
AMcLeod,
Sunday 11th December, 2022 4:30PM
Vertical Ridge
drijber,
Saturday 10th December, 2022 7:20AM
East Wildhorse
ryandrijber,
Wednesday 30th November, 2022 9:15AM
Maus creek exploring
<p>60cm snowpack. Faceted without support on the south facing aspects but other aspects had a supportive base with 10-15cm ski penetration for some good, careful turns!</p>
c.casselman,
Sunday 20th November, 2022 9:30AM