Dogtooth
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wet Slabs, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
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: Cornices.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
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, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Sunny Quartz Creek
First day on skis. Went for a poke around Quartz creek. A few sledders out and about dodging rocks and logs. I'd say it's still pretty early unless you really know the area, or like replacing your a-arms. Looks like everyone was enjoying the sun and new snow.
bradley.lorriman,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Chill South sides, spooky Norths.
Another fun day skiing around Quartz. 15cm of new snow from Monday's storm. Depth of snow ranged from 90 to 20cms. The old storm snow has been settling quickly, ski penetration only 20cms today. We skied pretty mellow south aspects and for good reason. While skinning along ridge top we triggerd a size 2 avalanche on a north aspect, see incident tab for more details.
bradley.lorriman,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Lots of size 1-2 avalanches on all aspects
<p>Lots of size 1-2 avalanches. Most point releases stopping in track. Some are wet loose, some are sorta wet, sorta dry , depending on aspect and stopping in track from the storm earlier in the week. Nothing stepping down. Starting to see bigliners get put down, but most lines are scaled back compared to a regular winter. Lower elevations are skiing poorly and creek crossings are opening up. Tracks in the backcountry around the ski hill have people skiing thin to thick and near rocky areas... so if you haven't got the message, avoid these areas...</p>
Todd Mansfield,
Friday 14th April, 2023 8:30PM
Copperstain
<p>Excellent powder skiing on West aspects from 2600m to 2100m today. Lots of whumpfing on west and south aspects from facets below the April 7 Melt freeze crust buried with 35cm of storm snow. Watch out for green housing and solar input waking up the deeper layers. Polar aspects giving easy hand shears on the April 7 Facet layer.
</p>
wardsbd,
Thursday 13th April, 2023 4:20PM
Ptarmigan
<p>Yesterday freezing levels reached 2200m but precipitation was falling as snow or graupel and there was no solar input. Skiing was surprisingly good. Some pin wheeling.
Yesterday evening winds picked up strong out of the South forming wind slabs on all open terrain. Extensive whumpfing on Bald Mountain and the west face of Ptarmigan kept us to tree skiing (which was good) . This morning the winds died down, and it cleared off for awhile. There were several avalanches on NW Alpine terrain(frequent producers) between 2450 and 2200m not propagating widely but running far in the storm snow.
The snow picked again low density with light easterly winds which now buried the wind slabs. Freezing levels around 1950m today.
Solar aspects between 2300m and 2100m have a few melt freeze crusts with facets underneath in the top 40cm that were producing whumpfs before the wind event.
Not exactly Bugs to Rogers conditions but good treeskiing above 1950m.</p>
wardsbd,
Monday 10th April, 2023 7:10PM
A Real Doozy of a Natural
403johns,
Sunday 19th March, 2023 4:40PM
Dogtooths
wardsbd,
Friday 17th March, 2023 5:40PM
Repeater 2.5
HgBri7,
Thursday 16th March, 2023 2:50PM
Northern Purcells
wardsbd,
Wednesday 15th March, 2023 8:00PM
Deep Natural
aagies,
Tuesday 14th March, 2023 9:00AM
Canyon creek KH
Ginette Lignedouette,
Saturday 11th March, 2023 8:40PM
Rudi south column test
<p>CTM15 SC. skied Canyon creed, Ozone north, Rudi south and ridge (east). Sun crust on south and south-east aspect starting at about 2100m</p>
HgBri7,
Wednesday 8th March, 2023 7:10AM
Canyon Creek Again
SkiingGolden,
Wednesday 1st March, 2023 6:40PM
Avalanche on Ozone South
<p>We saw the avalanche from top of White wall. Looks like size 2/2.5 with a crown dept of approximately one meter. Naturally trigger. </p>
Jean-François Poulin,
Monday 27th February, 2023 8:10PM
Clamshell natural
forestlatimer,
Thursday 23rd February, 2023 2:50PM
Grizzly Bowl
<p>A powerful avalanche that ran full path. Did not observe any others on similar aspects or in the area in general. </p>
tim,
Tuesday 14th February, 2023 3:50PM
Skier remote size 3
robertmarkwall,
Saturday 11th February, 2023 4:10PM
Reverse-loaded remote windslab
Andrew Venning,
Friday 10th February, 2023 4:20PM
Easily Triggered Small Slab on Rudi’s North
IsobelPhoebus,
Tuesday 7th February, 2023 3:20PM
Canyon Creek
<p>S/SW wind during the day. Wind slabs on the top part of the south windward slope. Noticed some cracks on the crusty snow surface while skinning upper part. Nice powder in the middle of the slope. </p>
Pampampam,
Monday 6th February, 2023 6:00PM
Canyon creek
<p>ECTX</p>
HgBri7,
Saturday 4th February, 2023 5:30PM
Ruedi's East
<p>Test pit at 2100m on ENE aspect. 33 deg. HS 140cm. CTH 23 SC on 3-4mm facets down 85cm. Some rounding in the bottom 65cm.</p>
Meshwell Boschmann,
Friday 27th January, 2023 7:00PM
Repeater Ridge natural avalanche
a_sherriff,
Tuesday 24th January, 2023 5:50PM
T2.5 skier accidental
chrisgranter,
Tuesday 24th January, 2023 9:30AM
Canyon Creek
<p>Stayed away from any well-defined avy paths. Snow was good, a bit of sun crust in more exposed areas. Skied south-west aspect off of Whitewall at KHR.
Snow pit at 2170 m on 38 degree slope.
ECTN26 RP down 25 cm on the January surface hoar.
For the heck of it:
ECTP31 SC The extended column collapsed on the Novembre deep persitent layer.
</p>
HgBri7,
Monday 23rd January, 2023 6:40PM
Quartz ski touring avalanche
Matt Stokes,
Saturday 21st January, 2023 5:00PM
Quartz Backcountry Ski cut Avalanche
duncan.ernst,
Wednesday 18th January, 2023 10:20AM
Molars East
dpassco,
Monday 16th January, 2023 5:40PM
Rudi’s South
etdelfatti,
Monday 16th January, 2023 4:20PM
Looker right - Rudi’s bowl
<p>Quite warm at the base, stuck to mellow slopes, dug a pit at the top near the ridge and noticed a significant amount sugary snow/weak layer 40cm’s down. Column collapsed on the on the first hit from the elbow. </p>
dcormack3,
Sunday 15th January, 2023 3:00PM
Repeator
<p>Hiked up to repeator. Snow was very wet to 1900m. Left the skin track at 1900m and had whumpfs and shooting cracks for a while. Got better higher up (but then went back on an old skin track, so may have missed them). Saw the avalanche on t2 from far so turned around at tree line. Skied out mostly on old tracks, avoiding steeper rolls . Snow was OK at first then got heavy. No signs of instability while skiing, but avoided steep rolls and mostly on old tracks. </p>
Sunshy,
Saturday 14th January, 2023 4:10PM
T2 OB
Lisa,
Saturday 14th January, 2023 3:30PM
OB T2
Lisa,
Friday 13th January, 2023 11:30AM
Gorman AST2
<p>Skinned up to Alpine, but too foggy to summit.
South slope at 2380m, HS 90, ECTP23 down 55 on 2cm sun crust. Facets above and below sun crust. 40cm down Dec 23rd layer.
Sharky descent close to Alpine.</p>
ali.preece,
Sunday 8th January, 2023 4:00PM
Compacted Quartz
<p>We rode in Quartz Creek to have a look at conditions. Generally compacted snow. Dug a pit and got 140 snowpack, test results CTH21 on December layer down 50cm and CTH 28 down 80cm. Not much evidence of avalanche activity where we rode but saw recent one, see photo; NE at 2250M. </p>
forecaster,
Friday 6th January, 2023 5:40PM
Near quartz
15ljy,
Wednesday 4th January, 2023 7:40PM
Testing
jmartin,
Wednesday 4th January, 2023 10:10AM
Half moon bowl
<p>No signs of instability until we reached 2100m elevation and remote triggered a convex roll down the gully from about 50-75m away. Crown of ~60cm</p>
SpicySalsa94,
Tuesday 3rd January, 2023 9:30PM
Dunno if I'd Repeat 'er again anytime soon.
<p>Played it pretty conservative with the touchy snowpack and two very close calls yesterday in the 'hood.
Tough travel at times over towards Repeater... coverage still on the thin side (110cm at 2080m) and frequently wallowing in bottomless facets near alder, x-mas trees, rocks, stumps.... tails of skis would sink and then it's hard to get back up on the skin track.
Several whumpfs above 1800m and a big one near our pit site, with cracks visible 30m above us.
See snowpack section for test results. </p>
cdnmoose11,
Sunday 1st January, 2023 4:50PM
South Molars Avalanche
<p>Skier triggered size 2 avalanche. See "avalanche" and "incident" page for further details.</p>
purdy.logan,
Saturday 31st December, 2022 4:20PM
Molar South
brad.fisher,
Saturday 31st December, 2022 3:40PM
Reudi’s South
<p>Top half of ridge line has decent but below average coverage and minor drifting. Bottom half is very thin with boulders and holes lurking under about 5cm making them invisible and very dangerous. Some good turns to be had at the top in low angle trees but ski with caution. </p>
jwe1,
Saturday 17th December, 2022 5:20PM
Gorman pit
staywildbackcountry,
Thursday 15th December, 2022 8:00AM
Quartz creek cabin laps
<p>Remote trigger from last rider in our group. 1m+ deep approx 50m wide and ran for 50m. Point release from shallow rocks down to the ground on facets.</p>
shelby.erazo,
Monday 12th December, 2022 1:40PM
Reudi's North SC sz2
hello,
Sunday 11th December, 2022 4:20PM
South of KHMR
Skiing Golden,
Wednesday 7th December, 2022 9:50PM
G Lake
<p>Rode a north aspect couloir in the Gorman Lake area. Good snow in betwen 1800m-2100m. Above that is wind affected with a crusty top layer, 5-15cm wind crust sitting on about 110cm base. </p>
Felix Robillard,
Saturday 19th November, 2022 9:30AM
Gorman ski
<p>Skied a N aspect couloir nearby Gorman lake. It skied pretty well but sharks are likely to get ya in spots. Quick dig in the snow in the couloir revealed a 120cm snow pack. Right side up, noticeably denser towards the bottom, 7cm of basal facets on top of rock/scree at the bottom. No observable layers. Surface hoar crystals have formed throughout the area. Small pockets of resistant windslab in the couloir.
Looks too boney to rip around on a sled.</p>
Noah Smith,
Sunday 13th November, 2022 9:31AM