Glacier
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: May 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Dry.
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Dry, Cornices.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Swiss Miss
Planned to ski north face of Swiss. Got to the base of south face at 1030 and sun was baking the rock sending down lots of natural dry loose sluff with multiple point releases as well. We decided to bail after a larger one crashed down with that would have totally sweeped us off the slope. Next time we’ll get up earlier.
Graham Phelps,
Wednesday 23rd April, 2025 9:30AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Long walk on the Bonney Glacier
Early approach up Loop Brook and through the trees was pretty technical skinning with the freeze/thaw cycle in full effect. Elephant Trunk still goes, but definitely requires a boot pack on the way up.
The moraines were all untracked and still held nice snow, but were definitely starting to warm up by 10am. We pushed straight onto the glacier and put in a track, stopping just short of the head, at the crossover to Greens glacier. Lowest probe strike on the way up was 260, but most were over 320. Decided to drop the Bonney side due to strong solar on all the Ross Peak slide paths. Saw at least 4-5 size 2’s come down from the extreme terrain overhead of the Greens exit, which is completely full of debris.
Rode fall line down into the Bonney North exit. We dropped in at 12:30 and the snow was still blower up high, transitioning into warmer pow around 2100m and spring conditions down through the pillows, all super fun riding. No signs of instability on North faces today.
Most solars above the creek have slid full path, some even reaching a couple feet away from the high access route on the bench above the Elephant Trunk.
jessemassumi,
Monday 14th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025I wanna be forever young
Nice day for young travers. +15cm of New Snow on top of solid hard surface. Now signs for instability. little sluffy sz1 in steeper terrain. Only in lower sections (<1800m) snow turned immediately from firn to isothermal snowpack.... A lot of big wet loose avalanches from the last circle but nothing new; 1 wind slab size 2.5 in the west faces east of I.Neve. Overall awesome day with the Austrian crew :)
martin_perfler,
Sunday 13th April, 2025 10:00AM
Bruins Glacier slide update
jessemassumi,
Sunday 13th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Dome avalanche
Its probably a sneaky surface hoar layer, sheltered in the NE pockets.. sneaky as in it is not everywhere, is not triggered naturally and is waiting.
F Greg Hill,
Friday 11th April, 2025 1:00PM
Bruins Glacer Size 2.5
Skied Video North earlier in the day in good conditions with not much wind loading. Got complacent on North facing aspects later in the day attempting to ski an extra bit of the Bruins glacier before returning to 8812 bowl.
Chairman Pow,
Friday 11th April, 2025 1:00PM
Hot Pow
Cameron Goon,
Friday 11th April, 2025 1:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025No bikini weather
Nice day out with good vibes for ok skiing with very bad visibility in the alpine. Isothermal snow with a little layer of fresh snow on top. Some decent turns up high when visibility is good or your friends go first but it turned into heavy and sticky snow real quick. Lots of pin wheels were released when we traversed on a sidehill on the decent. Skied on a mellow north decent.
jooshartmann,
Wednesday 9th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Storm Slabs.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Wet Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Wet and gross
christopher.eames94,
Monday 7th April, 2025 10:30AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Young’s traverse
Had a lovely time on my umpteeth young’s traverse. Quite icy low down, I used my ski crampons for a bit, but lots of people just struggled up. They were quite useful in some places, but I’m not sure if the extra effort was worth it. Snow turned wintery again once up on the glacier. The final skin up to the ridge is decent, thanks to the sucker who punched a new one today. Boot packing or ski crampons not required. We submitted around 1pm, and skied powder on the headwall, followed by wind affected and crust on the lower 7steps. Snow was slushy on the surface below the tree triangle all the way to the parking lot. Got back to the car by 220pm. I think we timed it fairly well, would not have wanted to be out much later. A variety of wet slides were seen on west and south aspect, of varying age. Heard, but did not see rockfalls.
Blaeberry_skier,
Sunday 6th April, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Everything As Forecasted Up Hermit
We had Hermit to ourselves yesterday. Early start, horrendous walking to tree line. Higher up it was hard to tell the rain runnels from what’s left of the skin track, so it was a bit of a choose your own adventure at times. Above the campground conditions improved tremendously. We bailed on our plan to attempt the Rogers face due to how long it took to get up there. Instead, we skied off Tupper Ridge and found 10-15cm of powder snow with pockets of slight wind effect. Snow became corn at 2200m and was starting to slush out below 1800m by 12:30pm. Lower Hermit path has a lot of debris in it. Thankfully some fresher snow coats everything which made things more manageable. The main choke was quite lean but we were able to exit fine enough.
Grizlwilly,
Friday 4th April, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Cheops Shelf Close Call
maybeitssportclimbingseason,
Thursday 3rd April, 2025 10:30AM
Daniel
danielzou1009,
Wednesday 2nd April, 2025 5:30PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Loose and sketchy
Nice and sunny walk up to the mouse trap with good views and sketchy skiing.
We had a picnic at the top of a moraine. Then skied down aiming for the lowest angle we could find while staying on high points
and crests. We triggered about 4 small loose slides from the ridge and waited for a group going up the mouse trap to be out of the way to complete the descent. (Please remember that friends don't let friends picnic in the middle of the mouse trap)
We saw lots of small loose slides on all aspects below 2000m and a glide crack below the glacier.
10cm surface crust that was breakable and punchy by 10am. That was sitting on moist snow for an entire ski pole length.
Demonic Pancake,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 12:00PM
Young’s
Skied the 7 steps / young’s peak area today and it was amazing. 10-20cm of nice cold powder atop the rain crust. Below 1800m the snow turned to mashed potatoes.
mark.wizinsky,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Conditions update Connaught creek
15cm of moist new snow over a thin but supportive crust in 8812 bowl at 2250m.
Lots of evidence of the wet avalanche cycle from the past few days. Of note, a very large avalanche (at least size 3) plowed down the main ski line of 8812 bowl, almost to the bottom (see picture).
cf.schlumpf,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 11:00AM
Warm and wet
Went for a little walk up Connaught creek to observe conditions, ended up spending the morning playing with ropes and doing crevasse rescue. I’d say pretty much every avy path along the creek has run either fully or nearly to valley bottom (photos included). Travel conditions are decent, there was a wet 10cm of new snow overtop all the rain affected snow from earlier in the week. Skiing out was slow and sticky.
jeenamr,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 8:30AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Asulkan Valley
Advertised conditions in asulkan valley up to 2100m; wet and heavy. Travelled to 2400m with steady improvement in ski quality.
Lots of evidence of natural activity down main paths, one size 3 to valley bottom with ~50m wide crown off lookout mountain (sorry parks no pictures).
NW pit @ 2300m. HS 275cm. 4F storm snow down 30 then 1F throughout. Two evident crust layers @ 260 and 250. Facets @ 180. No result on CT.
Preem,
Friday 28th March, 2025 12:00PM
Crusty Business
Made our way up to the base of Balu Pass. As temperatures rose our plan changed and we turned back at noon. 4 large avalanches within the last 72hrs, lower two from the right, upper teo from the left. Conditions were very crust and did not improve with elevation gain.
Do_no,
Friday 28th March, 2025 12:00PM
Bonney Moraines
Nice day up in the Morraines. The skin track up had a thin layer of new snow making travel relatively easy. Great snow found in the Alpine. Dug a few north facing hand pit with moderate effort, non planer results down 50-80cm. No sign of instability. Coming out around 2:00 was quite wet and sticky below the elephant trunk.
RHay,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 1:00PM
NRC Dumping Pow!
Skinned up NRC gully and did 2 laps, on each ridge left and right of the gully. Snow felt solid for the most part. Snowing heavily.
Super fun turns!
orionsurfs,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche crest fun
Rode avalanche crest this morning, windy at the top and the snow was a bit wind affected with sluffy/slabby turns , overall really good pow, finished the day with perfect snow in roger's run! Banana cheetos is out stay safe guys !
Banana louisssss,
Friday 21st March, 2025 9:30AM
Lily to dome in whiteout
Went for the lily to dome traverse, rode the dome with the lights off, snow was amazing and sluffing. We avoided the convex roller because there was a lot of snow !
Banana louisssss,
Thursday 20th March, 2025 12:00PM
Lily to dome in whiteout
Went for the lily to dome traverse, rode the dome with the lights off, snow was amazing and sluffing. We avoided the convex roller because there was a lot of snow !
Banana louisssss,
Thursday 20th March, 2025 12:00PM
Rogers south face low viz
Went to the top of rogers with hope of getting the sun, the way up was windy and somewhat cold but the riding was really good snow overall, finished with surprisingly good snow in lone pine light as well,overall colder day and windier then expected !
Banana louisssss,
Wednesday 19th March, 2025 12:00PM
Windy
Strong SE-SW winds redistributing lots of snow in the alpine and creating windslabs.
Juliencb,
Wednesday 19th March, 2025 12:00AM
Forever young
Great day with a lot of people in the glacier, stability seemed fine in the couloir with some sluff as expected.
Banana louisssss,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 12:00PM
Grizzlies Game Tonight
Heavy riding up top. Sun affected.
Almost perfect powder in dense trees in the shade.
New snow consolidating on solar aspects and beginning to form a slab
john.william.duncan,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 10:20AM
A Little Bit
Up exploring Avalanche crest area.
Little bit of sun came out at times this day.
Where the sun was out for more than 5 minutes the snow quickly warmed up and made for creamy skiing in areas on the way down.
3 laps on different aspects and gradients showed us no reactivity.
ICbM,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 10:00AM
Christiana Glades
The Bostock summer trail to get in and out is rock hard ice , with lots of foliage debris on it, definitely interesting, but pretty fast and fun on the way down!
Kiwionskis,
Monday 17th March, 2025 1:00PM
Video Peak Ski-Tour
Riding was great.
The snow pack in the gully beneath Ursa's trees need more snow for the up track, but downhill skiing was good.
No signs of instability on our aspect and slope. No avalanches on our aspect.
gabriellem1397,
Monday 17th March, 2025 9:45AM
Little sifton , little viz
Toured little sifton traverse + peak, the snow on the col was really good and became sun affected at the bottom near puff daddy !
Banana louisssss,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 11:00PM
Lookout Col lap
Skinned up to 1950m and conducted 2cts on SE aspect, HS 320cm. Results of CT RP 25cm down ctm13 and another RP 100cm down cth30. Found a thin wind crust 10cm down. Saw avalanche debris on NE aspects from the past few days and some dry loose on steeper SE and SW aspects from today. Overall snowpack was right side up and seems to be adhering nicely. Skied down from 2150m skiing was great.
zzoscarfoxzz,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 12:00PM
Frequent flyer slab
Skier trigger. Slab avalanche Size 1,5 at the top of frequent flyer.
Tony Montana,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 10:00AM
Grizzly Shoulder - trees
Good time, deep and lots of fun, only in the trees!
paulhetheringtongrieve,
Friday 14th March, 2025 12:00PM
Teddy Bear Turns
Rode deep lightly tracked pow in teddy bear trees. Couldn’t see any natural avalanches while skinning in. Did not encounter any activity in the trees.
Dug a south east facing pit in a small clearing in the trees at 1795m. Feb 16 layer failed on 27th tap.
john.william.duncan,
Wednesday 12th March, 2025 12:30PM
Video peak almost
We almost reached the top of video peak today but we decided to pull the plug just a few meters from the summit.
Poor visibility, considerable wind and windslab formation at the top got us to stop at 2530m and decided to ski from there since a short window came by and gave us just enough visibility to enjoy our way down.
No signs of instability were observed at all while ascending. Until we got to 2500m thats where the wind was starting to create decent windslab but not yet reactive.
Tony Montana,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 11:00PM
Teddy Bearry good
Amazing skiing in Connaught drainage.
Teddy bear highway in full effect. Groups of 2, 6 and 2 with more staying the the dense forest.
Skiid the open treed slopes S aspect, with knee deep trail breaking once off the main track and into the sparse treed slopes.
50cm ski pen.
-3 TL high
Light S winds
No signs of cracking with one small wumpf on an isolated convex roll. Resistant hand shears with little slap cohesiveness.
Drewskiis,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 9:00AM
Meeting everyone that can't ski Kicking Horse
Rode a south facing slope that seemed to have had a fair amount of wind in it that blew a lot of the new snow away. "Only" 15-20cm of light powder on a terrible crust mixed with low light even when the sun peaked through made for only okay skiing in the alpine. Better lower down. Crust seemed to be the melt freeze crust from about a week ago and had some old debris on it too.
Mellow uptrack felt very solid. Skiing trees seems to be the way to go right now.
jooshartmann,
Monday 10th March, 2025 11:00PM
Asulkan Hut partial Burial
tylerhallman,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 1:00PM
Balu Pass
A mix of sun and clouds up at Balu today. Skin track up to the base of Balu was not too bad. 10-15cm of loose ice crystals were on top of a dense crust. A very basic hand pit showed RP down 40-50cm. The snow was not reactive on low angle slopes.
RHay,
Friday 7th March, 2025 2:00PM
Close call on mount Rodgers.
rubin.harmon,
Friday 7th March, 2025 6:00AM
Preserved powder
North aspects 2000m up to ~1700/1650 well preserved powder ~15cm. Southern and eastern aspects baked in the sun. Pin wheeling observed on those aspects. No other instabilities noted.
-7C leaving the car @ 8am, strong solar throughout the day (spring skinning) until ~2pm when the clouds rolled in.
Skied the trees below the glacier.
Icy up track in the trees, unpleasant skinning but made for fast descent. Boot packed elephant trunk.
kelly.h,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 12:00PM
Prepare for Pain
Better skiing than expected down the main pillows on Glacier Crest.
Couldn't produce any results with ski cutting at ridgetop.
Dug down at ridgetop approx 1950m.
CT no results
CTH 29 rp down 60cm
ECT no results
Heinous travel below treeline, for those going out to Roger's pass this weekend, mentally prepare for proper spring skinning below 1800m.
skiblurst ,
Wednesday 5th March, 2025 12:00AM
Forever Young
Great turns in Forever Young today. 2-6cm of fresh and/or blown-in snow on soft, stable base. No wind affect or slabbiness. Deeper snow along the edges of the chute, but little sluff anywhere. We had first tracks, then a second party followed close behind us. Beautiful on the glacier with light wind, mixed sun and cloud. Temps stayed cool up high. Shady aspects still skiing great in the alpine. Refrozen luge-run exit was the day’s crux!!
@televangelist666,
Tuesday 4th March, 2025 11:30AM
Video Peak and Hospital Bowl following avalanche cycle
As expected, crusty snow conditions all the way up into the alpine, which hardened during the afternoon and providing some ok dust on crust conditions. Snow became dry at around 2300m, providing some decent skiing at the top section of Video Peak. Some new snow during the day formed a thin layer of poorly binding graupels on top of the old snowpack, leading to a lot of sluff on the steeper part of the descent. Lots of evidence of avalanches on all southern and easterly aspects, both on the approach and up in the bowl. Interestingly, the top section of Video Peak has stayed intact so worth staying cautious on these slopes, especially if it heats up again.
sveinar.lunde.soldal,
Monday 3rd March, 2025 2:00PM
Banana Blower
Track up shoulder valley was tough with large deposits filling most of the bowl, had to finish with a boot pack up the guts due to the whole face under ridge line having flushed down to rock/ crust. Large cornices present ridge top that require some careful management in order to reach the boot packs on the backside of MacDonald. Conditions in the couloir were surprisingly great.
jessemassumi,
Monday 3rd March, 2025 11:59AM
Connaught + Bruins glacier
Evidence of wet loose to size 2 from steep solar (8812, ursus Minor ridge, bruins ridge,...).
Frequent flyer stopped 5m above the track and a smaller path uphill covered the tracks over ~35m.
VCR had a persistent slab size 2.5, likely during the heat March 1st.
Wind effect in the alpine. Bruins glacier was smooth wind packed/soft sastrugi. Probed between 220cm and 3m+ high on the glacier.
Corn skiing in 8812 in the afternoon, becoming isothermal on the last steep roll.
Dry snow on East and North aspect above 1800m.
AlexM,
Sunday 2nd March, 2025 12:00PM
Snowpack Asulkan
Sunny beautiful day. Snow was "punchy" a little hard but softish from the heat midday
Completed a snow pit results:
- No failed pillar at standard com 30.
- Had to wail smash the column to achieve a resistant planar at 65cm
-Somewhat consistent snow density throughout snowpack, no obvious persistent layers
Slope was NE facing at approx 1600m elevation.
Did not have time to venture any higher (semi truck crash shut down hwy 1 for hours this AM).
danielcoward99,
Sunday 2nd March, 2025 2:00AM
Wet loose 1.5 quartz
Sledskigirl83,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 3:00PM