Garibaldi
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
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, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wet Slabs, Storm Slabs.
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: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, 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.
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.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Have you ever heard of a snot rocket?
Plenty of surface hoar present on the red heather meadows. Great day in the backcountry!
mcusack617,
Sunday 7th January, 2024 8:40PM
Powder Fest
Casual camping trip to elfin lakes. Rode slopes north of the standard elfin lakes trail. The snow was super powdery and splashed nicely. 30cm ski penetration when skinning.
Several very small crowns of 40 cm depth along the steeper parts on northern slopes of the ridge.
Noticed sma settlement of the snow, when breaking trail.
Small surface hore started forming on the new powder.
LuJo,
Sunday 7th January, 2024 5:30PM
Brohm Ridge Park Boundary
LFT_MG,
Sunday 7th January, 2024 5:10PM
Black Tusk Powder Laps
1) The road to rubble creek parking is plowed, but very icy. Bring chains.
2) The lake is not frozen.
We were able to skin up from the car, carrying our skis for a few short bits. About 20cm of fresh, heavy snow at the car park, getting progressively deeper as we got higher. Ski penetration varied from boot top to over knee deep in the drifts by the time we reached Taylor Meadows.
We enjoyed great views from the meadows, which allowed us to spot crown lines on Mt Price (on a steep N aspect) and over towards Panorama/Gentian (on a steep W aspect). We also observed wind affect in open areas at treeline and above, as well as a bit of spindrift on ridge tops in the light breeze.
Skied two fantastic laps on low angle south facing terrain in deep and mostly unconsolidated snow. On our second lap we noticed that the snow was getting slightly heavier, with a very thin sun crust on aspects that were now in the shadows. Two hand shear tests produced results 50-60 down, suggesting that the storm snow had not fully bonded to the previous surface.
We were able to ski down to about 900m or about 2km from the car park (watch for sharks!).
lane.kathleen,
Sunday 7th January, 2024 7:30AM
Columnar Peak avalanche cycle
freeman.david.j,
Saturday 6th January, 2024 9:40PM
Paul Ridge Powder
On a north-east slope we dug a quick pit before skiing down. We probed 80cm until we hit crust. No reactivity on the column at any compression. All powder snow until we hit the crust. We saw some small crowns on the north slope while skiing down, but no debris so not sure how old they are. Small amounts of sluffing on the steepest areas, but no other signs of avalanche activity.
Snow quality was unreal, super fluffy the entire way with no ice or noticeable windslab in the area. Just a great blue bird powder day. Get it while it's good!
604natethomas,
Saturday 6th January, 2024 9:40PM
Slides on Paul ridge convexities
handley88,
Saturday 6th January, 2024 4:00PM
Many Pow @ Paul Ridge
HS 140cm @ 1550m on the knob above the warming hut. A quick pit showed ~50cm of unconsolidated fresh storm snow sitting on 40-50cm of still soft storm snow from the previous week. A few various crusts below that. No signs of instability from what we saw, but we weren't in avalanche terrain.
blogan7420,
Saturday 6th January, 2024 3:40PM
Brohm Ridge access rd
Na size 1.5 storm slab north aspect 1350m fracture line depth 30-40cm Propagated into small trees average slope angle 40 to 45 degrees. Failure plane new snow or yesterdays snow. Estimated width of slab 50m and estimated deposit on the road 2 metres to sledders got stuck in deposit as they ran into it sometime shortly after it slid. Weather: S6 moderate south wind -2c.
ams,
Friday 5th January, 2024 9:50PM
Gargoyles & Elfin Lakes area
Observations:
- avalanche debries on SW facing slopes (size 1 to 1.5)
- dust (5 to 20 cm) on a supportive crust
- warm temps: tree bombs, pinwheels, small point releases
- trees below 1600m are not very well filled in. Requires cautious riding
- snow was going through a freeze & melt cycle
- Continuous skinning and riding doable till about 2 km away from upper parking lot
- riding on alpine slopes was surprisingly good
sjs8989,
Tuesday 2nd January, 2024 6:20PM
Black Tusk and Panorama
Spent 31st and 1st in the area. Went in thinking conditions would be terrible but were greatly surprised. Switchbacks are dry until 5km in from parking lot, patchy with icy spots after, skinnable at 6.5km.
Dec30th night saw some wet snow precipitation that cooled down into the morning. We skied low angle South facing slopes off the Tusk, where snow was wet and crusty initially but turned into supportive crust with ~10 cm of fresh above 1900m. Best snow above 1900m but with the sun it became progressively heavier by end of the day. A few crusts noticeable under the top rain crust. A couple naturals to sz 1.5 on steep South aspects. Snow moistened during the day and became heavy below 1800m.
Jan 1st was bluebird, no cloud covert overnight. Cold temperatures. We headed to North ridge of Panorama where we found thick supportive crust with 10 cm of fresh low density from the Dec 31st overnight snow. Not bonding very well to crust. Surface hoar was evident. Skiied really well on low angle.
albertocsanz,
Tuesday 2nd January, 2024 10:00AM
Winter?!
Solo stroll to Diamondhead to ring in 2024.
The road is totally snow free, and skinning starts at around 1200m, but is patchy for a few hundred metres after that.
I found 10-20cm of cold, dry, unconsolidated powder on a supportive crust beyond Elfin Lakes. This made for nice skiing and easy trail breaking, but it was more windy than expected and the snow was being visibly transported at ridgetop and covering tracks fast. I also noticed some fresh SH forming around TL, which might be notable after the next storm. The sun didn’t feel too powerful and the colder temps seemed to be keeping the snow dry above 1400m.
Overall, a lovely day to be out and felt a little more like winter up high!
kenyonslaneym,
Monday 1st January, 2024 4:40PM
Round Dec 29
Yawn patrol to see how the overnight precipitation landed.
From 7AM onwards light rain. It looks like the precipitation overnight landed as snow but gradually melted out. At a glance it looks like 10cm of fresh with the top 2cm being fully soaked. No instability or natural avalanches of note
Road is in decent shape past the fallen tree with a few bare but passable sections
jackdcasey,
Friday 29th December, 2023 12:30PM
Paul Ridge 20231227
30 minutes of hiking to get to snow. At 1500m, 90 cm HS. 5 cm storm snow overlaid well consolidated base. No sign of instability.
jim,
Wednesday 27th December, 2023 10:20PM
Paul Ridge and Columnar
We found between 10-15cm of light snow on a supportive crust that skied well off Columnar's SE aspect. The snow was a bit heavier in the trees around 1700m and slid a bit on the crust below as we skinned into steeper terrain. We found surface hoar from 1300m to our high point at 1760m on all aspects we could see as we toured across Paul Ridge to Columnar.
Justin Partridge ,
Saturday 23rd December, 2023 6:50PM
Round Mountain
colin.n,
Saturday 23rd December, 2023 5:00PM
Black Tusk
An incredible mixed bag of conditions. Weather was everything from very hot and sunny to thick high clouds with strong winds in the alpine. It even hailed for a short time.
Snow in the alpine was shallow, wind compressed and slightly chalky/dry. Not as sun affected as the treeline where snow was deeper but also heavier. Both rode fairly well considering the temperatures and variability.
bluebery,
Monday 18th December, 2023 12:40PM
Black Tusk
Another wet and warm day up high - it was about 0 degrees at 1950 meters with a light mist from the clouds.
We hiked to and from the 6km mark on the Rubble Creek Trail and then skinned up to about the 2000m elevation mark near the Tusk. We dug a pit on a south aspect at 1950m, see snowpack section for details. We also got a windslab to let go on the lee side of a wind lip with a few kicks (see avalanche summary)
Justin Partridge ,
Sunday 17th December, 2023 1:20PM
Nice day for a walk
We took our skis for a walk to the Elfin shelter for lunch, and given the heavy, somewhat crusty snow we decided to come straight back instead of skiing any laps. We observed lots of rollerball activity in steeper terrain and what appeared to be a very small wet slide. The road was skiable to the lookout but coverage was getting quite thin in spots, so that may change quickly with the weekend traffic.
lane.kathleen,
Saturday 16th December, 2023 5:30PM
Paul Ridge fitness laps
5-10 cm of moist snow over a 1-5cm crust, supportive to ski penetration on N aspects. Freezing levels rose through the day. Extensive pinwheeling observed on N aspects (pictured). Coverage is still shallow, watch for boulders and small trees (pictured).
Expect to walk your skis down from the lookout point on the road. Sunset did not impact avalanche hazard but was 10/10
lauren.beans,
Friday 15th December, 2023 7:40PM
Night Ski at Round Mtn
gilbert.pjb,
Thursday 14th December, 2023 10:00PM
Black Tusk Meadows
Wet and heavy day up to black tusk. Coverage on the switchbacks from rubble creek is poor. Had to walk up 3km and down 5km. Great coverage in the meadows.
Vis was poor so had to stick to small trees for the descent.
Snow was clumpy and heavy all the way up to 2000m. There was even a light rain crust forming as it was wet snow/rain all the way up.
bluebery,
Monday 11th December, 2023 10:50AM
Brohm Ridge
Big pin wheels. Crust on top of hot pow.
DW_Panini,
Monday 11th December, 2023 9:30AM
Red Heather pit
sullivan.james.f,
Monday 11th December, 2023 7:00AM
The approach is spicier
Approached the lower part of gentian ridge from cheakamus lake.10 to 15 cm of accumulation throughout the day, relatively light powder at higher elevations, but wet at parking lot level. Deadfall about 1km prior to parking lot.
The beginning of the trail was barely skinnable and in parts needs boot packing. Many sections are icy with a dusting of snow, making for for tricky traveling.
Windy in the alpine, from variable directions, dominantly south.
Snow depth was highly variable. 15 cm of fresh snow, wind compacted in exposed alpine terrain, on a thick supportive crust. Under the crust was loose snow.
Fresh snow would move downhill when stepped on.
Avalanche debris under a steep south facing slope.
LuJo,
Saturday 9th December, 2023 5:50PM
Racing before the rain
Heavy wet snow on the skin up from 8am-10am, total accumulation 5cm.
10am onwards... Moderate to heavy rain, up to at least 1500m.
We quit after a lap.
Riding wasn't great, pretty slow in the deep wet powder, like having the brakes on. Had to double pole and skate down the Red Heather road.
All my gear is soaked.
osinskiandrew,
Monday 4th December, 2023 6:50PM
Access Improving!
Snow is down to the parking lot. You can start skinning up from the bottom. Skiing out is almost perfect! Couple of sneaky rocks poking out below the viewpoint. Watch out for core shots!
Remember: Chains are required on the road! Don’t be that person! And don’t block the snow plow like the idiots on Saturday! 🤦♂️
Brento,
Monday 4th December, 2023 8:30AM
Red Heather Meadow
DJJKK,
Sunday 3rd December, 2023 11:30PM
The Soggy Search for Surface Hoar
Heading out the door, we expected conditions to still be pretty touchy after Friday night’s storm. With 10+ cm in the forecast for the day with some cranking wind, we chose a pretty simple and sheltered objective and headed for Red Heather hut. Lots of cars (and stoke!) in the parking lot. There was only about 30 cm of recent snow on the ground at 1000 m, but as we climbed so did the snowpack! At the hut (1400 m) there was around 80 to 100 cm of snow.
We dug a few quick profiles and found the drought layer from November to be a significant weak layer of large surface hoar down 40 to 50 cm. This layer was reactive in snowpack tests, producing moderate to hard propagating results with extended column tests. Pretty spooky stuff! It kept us on mellow terrain with no overhead hazard.
The storm snow was becoming heavy with temperatures nearing 0 C at the hut. Ski quality was still okay and there have been lots of stoked skiers up there enjoying the powder.
AVCAN FORECASTER,
Sunday 3rd December, 2023 3:20PM
Red Heather after a Storm
Beautiful day but considering recent storm we didn't do much skiing. Kept it to very mellow slopes and mostly refreshed AST skills. Compression tests repeatedly failed at E4 at 35cm. Underlying snowpack seemed relatively stable with a dense layer at 50cm.
michael.merrin33,
Saturday 2nd December, 2023 7:00PM
Red Heather Season Opener
Snowline started just after the diamond head parking lot (around the lookout, approx 1050m). Continuous after that, increasing to 30cm, 45cm, and eventually nearly 75cm at 1500m.
Given there was no snow base, you could step/pole plant all the way to the earth below Friday nights storm snow event. It was fairly heavy and wet snow, very easy to make snowballs to throw at your friends! Snow at 1500m Saturday afternoon turned to wet snow and rain back at the parking lot.
Stoked to get this season started!!!
bluebery,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Early Season Turns
Fun first day out. Snow was pretty good above about 1300m. Not blower pow, but much better than expected. Good coverage, and some good turns.
Scott McKenzie,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Helm
Walked up to helm peak to see how the epicenter of the storm looked. Consistent skinnable snow starts at 1100m and increases from there. Around helm campground and peak there was around 60-100cm total depth. Pretty fun skiing in the trees and in the meadows. Alpine is still pretty sharky.
jordan.polischuk,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Red Heather Night Lap
Crazy_Pete,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Red Heather, walked to Lookout 1km up
gilbert.pjb,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Panorama ridge
Skied the North Face of Panorama Ridge down to Cinder Flats. Snow depths were 60 cm at 1600 up to 100+ in wind loaded north slopes. Very thin breakable crust overlaying powder made for some decent skiing at upper elevations.
bennettvanderson,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Early Season Turns
Rode lowest line off ridge of columnar peak back down to elfin shelter. Saturday evenings storm came in pretty wet, hour or two of rain at first which made for a bit of a crust under the new snow. Thinner snowpack near the ridge but things are filling in nicely out there.
gibson16,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Some soft snow still remains
Went up to and just beyond Round on 19 Nov. Observed some recent snowfall, snow was heavy to just beyond the warming hut and became colder/dryer from 1400 to 1600m. Coverage mixed, observed snow depths to ground of around 45cms around the 1450m elevation line.
saxon.g,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Fresh snow and fresh crust
Started out with a walk up the road in the fog. Able to transition around 1100/1km past the lot. Seemed that quite a bit of rain had fallen up to about 1300m where we started to see some fresh snow on the ground. 2-5cm crust sat on top of most new storm snow that would have been nice to ride otherwise.
No signs of instability to be seen. New snow appears well bonded with surface.
SteveSkis123,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Red Heather
First day out skiing this season. Started skinning at about 1km up from parking lot at the first viewpoint. Conditions are thin but improve as you climb higher. HS of 30 at the waterfall and 60 at red heather hut. Large surface hoar on all aspects above 12m, at least 10mm in places. Snowpack is thin but well settled.
frynearson,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Fun in the sun!
Beautiful day up Red heather.
Hike starts at the view point
55-65cm at 1350m.
Supportive crust 10-15cm down
Was 5c at warmest in sun.
avybites,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Red heather
We hd hiking boots until the view point, and skied up to the 1st shelter.
Going up after the view point was pretty straight forward. however, be careful on the way down at some rocky points close to the waterfalls .
Snow was 65cm thick , no sign of instability. We used the summer trail. The snow was getting slightly hard but still felt smooth at some locations outside of the main trail.
MarieoceaneFR,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM
Red Heather Hut
We skinned up from the outlook point to ~+50m elevation past the warming hut. The snow line starts very suddenly and quickly reaches ~60cm in depth which was maintained all throughout Red Heather Meadow up until our peak elevation. We rode some mellow meadows out, as well as the skin path back to the outlook point and booted from there. Large surface hoar with a crusty layer right beneath, and another crust layer ~10cm further down. No wind, -1->+1 degrees.
Dalmann,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM
Avalanches in Garibaldi park.
Barny,
Friday 28th April, 2023 1:20PM
Brohm Size 2
<p>Heavy snow over last few days. Storm snow up to 60cm in some areas.</p>
peterwinter1,
Thursday 20th April, 2023 3:20PM
Brohm
<p>Did some sled/ski laps on northerly aspects in Brohm area, almost out to park boundary. Nothing really reactive, couple of small slabs off rock outcrops 15cm deep.</p>
peterwinter1,
Thursday 13th April, 2023 4:40PM
Round Mountain
<p>Yesterday (April 7), snow was wet and heavy. Overnight it was windy and snowing. By about 11:00 there was an inch of fresh snow and the wet snow had crusted overnight. At times I was breaking through the crust and other times I was skiing on top and it was hard to edge due to the limited new snow and crust. </p>
brentehlers,
Saturday 8th April, 2023 5:50PM
Watersprite before the storm
<p>Wet snow falling all day on Friday. Accumulation appx 10cm by 5pm.
Good riding on sheltered North aspects in the trees. Everything else had a significant crust, either wind scoured or sun-crust.</p>
osinskiandrew,
Saturday 1st April, 2023 7:40AM
Late night Round
<p>Friday night laps off Round. Road was mostly clear until big switchback after chain up point. Chains recommended for upper portion. Fast, slick conditions on the skin up. 10-15cm accumulation above red heather hut. Little to no wind or drifting. Light, unconsolidated powder that has fallen on crust. Hard, unbreakable crust on anything but northern elevations. We found the best skiing on protected north facing micro features where we weren’t skiing dust on crust. Consistently snowing as we left around 9pm</p>
tompatmore1,
Saturday 25th March, 2023 7:40AM
Dalton NF
<p>Great day for steep skiing on Nch’kay. Remote triggered a school bus sized cornice off the summit of Dalton Dome that swept the North Face. It didn’t trigger any slab but did entrain a significant amount of sluff, glacier ice, and rock as well as creating some pretty spectacular bomb holes in the face. Luckily we skied a bit over and found extremely good skiing in preserved powder.
Not much of a shrund or crevasses on the NE Face of Garibaldi at the moment.</p>
swskier,
Wednesday 22nd March, 2023 9:30AM