Central Selkirk
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wet Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 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 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Montana Bowl
GeographyJD,
Sunday 31st December, 2023 5:40PM
Kodak courage Backcountry near RMR
Observed this group filming at the base of the South face of Mt Mackenzie, which is outside the ski area boundary and not controlled. On a warm sunny day... One person told me they had transceivers but what good is that going to do if there's an
avalanche with no packs/shovels and probes in sight... Skier triggered and natural slab avalanches have been observed there in the past.
Sylh,
Sunday 31st December, 2023 4:50PM
Ghost Peak
We dug a snow pit below Ghost Peak.
South West Aspect, 42°, 2230m, total snowpack depth 210cm and got the following results:
CTE4 down 60cm sudden planer
CTE5 down 60cm sudden planer
ECTN16 down 60cm (propergated across half the column)
Al fractures on what seems to be the Dec 1st surface hoar. The surface hoar layer was barley visible.
Florian,
Friday 29th December, 2023 6:30PM
Merry wind slabs eve! 🎅🌬️❄️🎄
Nice sunny day at RMR slack country.
Good skiing on features that have been affected by the wind and solar aspects.
Temperature was fairly chill. Moderate winds and snow transport at ridge top. Some up slope winds in the bowls also created some reverse loading and wind lips lower in the alpine.
We skied some freshly formed wind slabs today, knowing they're soft, thin and a low potential for propagation and by choosing well supported features and avoiding thin to thick. But I would be very weary of those as they get more consolidated in the next few days.
There's a lots of people everywhere, beware of who's above or below you.
2 small skier accidental avalanches on fresh wind slabs (see avalanche tab for details)
Demonic Pancake,
Sunday 24th December, 2023 4:30PM
Avalanche Size 2 in Montana Bowl/RMR
Around noon on Dec 23, a rider triggered an avalanche in this West North West gully in Montana Bowl near RMR. Avalanche was a size 2 (see picture). The start zone was around 2300 meters. Avalanche ran for about 200 meters. It is difficult to know if it was a windslab (looks like it) or maybe the Dec 1st surface hoar layer was a player. Nonetheless, the terrain feature where the avalanche occurred was rocky and very steep (37 degrees to 45 degrees), and the snow depth was highly variable.
I do not want to be too moralist here, but maybe it is time to think twice about where we are riding; especially since Montana Bowl is a very popular place where other skiers or riders could have been below.
fred_amyot,
Sunday 24th December, 2023 7:20AM
Kokanee Ridge
We came back for an overnight camping trip in Kokanee Bowl and dug a pit just below the col from Montana Bowl towards Kokanee Ridge. We noticed a small wind slab forming near the top before digging. Our snow profile revealed a rain/sun crust down 50-60cm and SF down 90-100cm down. Our test revealed CTH23 down 60cm, SP.
We continued further up the ridge and dropped in the first entrance into Montana on the mellow slope. Boot high powder all the way to the flats. Snow started to get heavy at treeline and below into Montana Trees.
Michael O'Farrell,
Saturday 23rd December, 2023 12:40AM
Kokanee Bowl
We traveled over to Kokanee Bowl to check on conditions. We checked up on the early December surface hoar near the ridge in open trees on a southwest aspect. It was down 70 cm of a 150 cm snowpack, 2 to 3 mm and rounding. No ECT result due to its depth and the PST resulted was 52/100 End, suggesting low propagation potential at that location. Further, it is about 30 cm beneath the 4 cm hard melt-freeze crust so we thought it was a low likelihood layer for avalanching at that location. No facetting around the crust. We skied up to 40 degrees in the open trees and bowl below. The snow was softest in the protected trees.
mconlan,
Wednesday 20th December, 2023 4:30PM
Hanging above the highway
Went to the Revelstoke Mountain Resort slack country today to dig in the snow. We dug a pit at the top of Highway bowl at 2200 m. There was 154 cm of snow where we dug in a lee feature just below ridgetop. We had an extended column test that propagated across the column on the 17 tap in the moderate range. We also did two deep tap tests above the Dec 1 surface hoar, which produced sudden planer result in the moderate range.
We skied down into Montana bowl and found good turns in 30 cm of unconsolidated snow atop a supportive melt freeze crust. It warmed up through the day to -2 in the alpine so we scooted back in bounds to practice our multi burial transceiver rescue skills.
AVCAN FORECASTER,
Tuesday 19th December, 2023 5:20PM
Checking out the snowpack
Dug a pit at 2250m on a SW aspect below some trees. HS 100 with a prominent suncrust on top. Column test failed at ctm13 down 50cm on surface hoar layer. Rain crust present down 25cm
michelboileau333,
Wednesday 13th December, 2023 4:50PM
Revelstoke Mountain Resort -Side country
michael_mariash,
Monday 11th December, 2023 5:40PM
Assessment Day at McCrae
Went for an assessment outing to check snowpack conditions and terrain at McCrae. Spent most of the day in the clouds at treeline and BTL, and saw a little bit of the sun in the alpine. Alpine conditions were variable, but we heard whumpfs and natural avalanches happening, we didn't see any activity though. Alpine snowpack was highly affected by wind and solar events. Riding conditions were not great.
HS of 125cm on SW aspect at 2150 elev. with prominent basal facets.
At treeline there was up to 3cm size surface hoar and riding was good/powder.
m.figueiredo,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM
It's getting real hot up high.
<p>Skied from 2200-2500m with a big learning group.
Lots of natural wet loose in W-S-E aspects. We skied north facing run.
Wet soft snow. Good quality riding.
Significant rising temperatures through the day. Up to 3 degrees.
None of the wet loose triggered Slab avalanches. </p>
mireillemarquis.mm,
Monday 24th April, 2023 5:30PM
Natural slide near Door 1
<p>Was on Gracias Ridge today and noticed a slide around the bottom of Door 1. I could definitely be wrong, but I think it started from the steep rocky area as it appears everything above that area is intact. </p>
derek.trowell,
Sunday 16th April, 2023 3:50PM
Montana Bowl
chrisrubens1,
Wednesday 12th April, 2023 4:40PM
Temp crust lurks
<p>Rode Greely trees so you don't have to. Good skiing stops around 2000m with a breakable temperature crust underneath 15-25cm of low density new snow.</p>
johnmbell,
Tuesday 11th April, 2023 5:00PM
Apprentice ski exam
Kris Irwin,
Saturday 8th April, 2023 8:15AM
Highway bowl
<p>Group of 4, we dropped into highway bowl NW aspect at the popular entrance near goat peak. Snow was very stable powder, turns felt great and did not see any sloughing. We stayed on the skiers right side of the creek and the snow was good powder pretty much the whole way down but we started to feel the snow was starting to warm up and feel heavier around 1460m just before we stopped to skin up and out through greely trees area back to the resort. </p>
derek.trowell,
Thursday 6th April, 2023 10:30AM
Whumpfs, cracks, and slides
<p>Headed for a walk behind Kokanee.
Plenty of large whumpfs along the way on S and W aspects.
Cut a very small cornice on an E slope and the whole slope propagated. About 20cm crown, around 30 metres across. A healthy size 1.
Making my way up the ridge, multiple more slides on the same aspect slid. some smaller, one larger.
On my way back down, tested a sunny slope and got a crack about 10 metres long in front of me. A little bit more incline and the whole slope would have likely slid.
The sun is potent when it comes out of the clouds. </p>
ICbM,
Wednesday 5th April, 2023 7:20PM
A long walk from the resort
<p>We went for a long walk from RMR on Sunday. We generally climbed mellow sunny slopes and skied steep shaded aspects. It was warm, but we didn't see as much wet loose avalanche activity as expected on solar aspects. North aspects skied great and held nice snow down to 1100m. We saw no signs of instability on shaded slopes.
The biggest issue was skin glop, which slowed things down considerably on the biggest ascent of the day. No amount of skin wax would help.</p>
axcooper,
Monday 20th March, 2023 11:20AM
North aspects good Sunny slopes bad
<p>Skinned out from RMR. Lots of people out there skiing all the different things. Dropped into the bowl from Goat Peak shoulder. Went up Roscoe’s and dropped into Montana Bowl north aspect around 2230m. Snow was deep powder and felt great, no signs of instability.. the same can not be said for slopes that were getting the sun all day. </p>
derek.trowell,
Friday 17th March, 2023 11:10AM
Mount Mackenzie
boisagarra,
Thursday 9th March, 2023 7:40PM
Revelstoke
Lorne Graham,
Wednesday 8th February, 2023 6:30PM
Montana Ttees
<p>Nice snow in Montana trees after a short skin. Deep layers are there and weak. </p>
g.a.w.rushton,
Saturday 28th January, 2023 5:50PM
avalanche slackcountry RMR
Thomas Petit,
Friday 27th January, 2023 4:20PM
Door 4
<p>Recent cornice fall from skiers left side of door 4 triggered a slab which took out most of the chute. The crown looked to be mostly 2-3’ deep but at least twice that in the pocket below the normal entrance. The bed surface is pretty rocky in spots. I dug out the entrance in hopes it would allow a better refill of the pocket, not so much to enable access.</p>
marxkarkis,
Sunday 22nd January, 2023 9:50PM
In the Clouds
<p>Good day of riding. Rode s-sw slopes in open trees. Many signs of older Na activity in the area on all aspects. size 1-2s. Crowns seem to be the storm slabs released in the past 24-48 hours. No evidence of human triggered slides in the area that we saw but obs were limited due to vis. Day went from OVC to X to OVC. </p>
kykliss,
Tuesday 17th January, 2023 4:50PM
Montana Bowl
<p>Skied the most supported line in open trees. White out conditions.
Several Na storm slab from previous cycle in wind loaded pockets at TL. </p>
vincentjauvin,
Tuesday 17th January, 2023 2:10PM
West Twin
<p>Triggered class 1 avy in open treed area, propagated about 20m wide 50 cm depth ran for about 10 meters. Was able to ski out of it. Site of incident was open trees with some minor supporting regen. Noted significant natural slab avys on steeper slopes in the area. Some whumphing was heard the day prior in this area. </p>
Dale Offermann,
Monday 16th January, 2023 6:20PM
HotnHeavy
<p>Did a lap through Montana trees down to the road where we found great snow. Skinned up Kokanee ridge where we noted a fair amount of natural avalanche activity on the North aspect of the south ridge ranging in size from 1-2.5. Hard to say from across the bowl but it doesn’t look like anything stepped down to the basal faucets. Skied low angle pow in open trees most of the way down and had another amazing lap. No signs of
instability where we skied and the new snow seems to be beginning to bond to the very consolidated snow underneath.</p>
Riley Lerner,
Sunday 15th January, 2023 10:10PM
Greely Trees
<p>Went skiing in Greely Trees today. Saw a few small slab avalanches near the top of our line, which made us ski quite cautiously. Snow quality was great up high, around 1900m, but got progressively heavier as went down. Below 1600m it was essentially mashed potatoes.</p>
axcooper,
Sunday 15th January, 2023 3:30PM
Homies in all the wrong places
Lorne Graham,
Thursday 12th January, 2023 8:15PM
RMR side country
<p>Dug a pit at 1950ish.
SW slope
CTH22 sudden collapse 40cm down on December layer. Slightly resistant Planar.
The bottom of the snowpack near the base is a whole bunch of facets.
We tried doing an extended column test but could not get the column to propagate with 30 taps. A few harder hits later it propagated about halfway across the column.
</p>
ICbM,
Saturday 7th January, 2023 7:40AM
New Years at Selkirk Lodge
David Ellison,
Tuesday 3rd January, 2023 8:30PM
North Bowl RMR
saraorgue,
Tuesday 3rd January, 2023 5:00PM
Kokaknee north
<p>Nice day out above the clouds. Found the button on a very steep slope. Otherwise the only issue with the skiing was a lite rime crust from Sunday, the locals claimed it wasn't there, but it is. </p>
Anonymous ,
Tuesday 3rd January, 2023 4:50PM
RMR
saraorgue,
Monday 2nd January, 2023 7:50PM
McCrea
<p>It was cold and sunny with some wind. Then got a little warmer. Snow was pretty good. More salt texture than powder. We stayed away from big open bowl, tuck to the trees and less steep slopes. Sight of one small slab avalanche farther in the backcountry definitely sun affected, want there in the morning. Felt pretty stable, good riding. Probed 170 cm at about 1950 m. </p>
marie.eve.gin,
Monday 2nd January, 2023 5:30PM
Whumphs and skier remote avalanche
Sylvain Hebert,
Saturday 31st December, 2022 5:15PM
Roscoe Col Wind Slab Skier Controlled
<p>10-15cm HST offering great powder skiing in less travelled areas. Multiple Sz 1 natural wind slab avalanches observed in Montana bowl from lee/northerly aspects. Skier controlled a P-hard wind slab at Roscoe Col, generated by the moderate S winds gusting to strong. The wind slab avalanche sympathetically triggered another Sz 1.5 slab down to ground. They both slid surprisingly far on a bed of facets. We saw evidence of reverse loading from the past arctic ridge near the Kokanee ridge cat track on southerly aspects. No reactivity from those wind slabs while travelling BTL and at TL. Limited observation in the ALP.</p>
Beyond-Our-Peak,
Saturday 24th December, 2022 8:50AM
South Bowl Avalanche 1-1.5
lyndon,
Friday 23rd December, 2022 5:30PM
Ski toodling and snow sampling
natjsegal,
Monday 12th December, 2022 9:50PM
RMR backcountry
joeyvosburgh,
Monday 12th December, 2022 8:50PM
Montana Bowl skier trigger 2
kai,
Monday 12th December, 2022 3:50PM
Montana Bowl Skier Trigger
kai,
Monday 12th December, 2022 3:40PM
RMR Montana Bowl
Dan Taylor,
Saturday 10th December, 2022 4:50PM
Skier controlled-ish in Montana Bowl
Matt Coté,
Monday 5th December, 2022 8:20AM
Montana Crest
<p>Beautiful day in the backcountry around RMR. An inversion brought warm temps and the sun was baking the snowpack on south facing slopes around noon. Melting on trees was a good indicator that things were warming up. A quick pit yesterday showed obvious layers that could cause problems if the top layer started to have some cohesion which the warming temps gave it. This size 3 avy was skier triggered as they were ski cutting the top of the slope. The slide easily propagated as it moved down the hill. </p>
mikey,
Monday 5th December, 2022 7:20AM
previous avalanche in Kokanee Bowl/ Very Thin
Frederick Amyot,
Monday 5th December, 2022 7:15AM
Sidecountry of Mackenzie
saraorgue,
Sunday 4th December, 2022 7:40PM
RMR - Montana
<p>Afternoon lap in Montana.
It got warm enough to make the snow on south facing slopes quite sticky.
Dug 2 quick pits in Montana area.
HS 80-90cm
Higher up in the bowl, I got a sudden collapse on my 10th light tap. The column slid off very easily.
A bit lower down no reactivity whatsoever.
The picture is from the pit lower down the slope.
It may look good but there’s plenty of sharks lurking.</p>
ICBM,
Sunday 4th December, 2022 5:40PM