Glacier
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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wet Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Bonney 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 Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche 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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Lily 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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Rogers 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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Forever 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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Christiana 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
Avalanche 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 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 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Lookout 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
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Grizzly Shoulder - trees
Good time, deep and lots of fun, only in the trees!
paulhetheringtongrieve,
Friday 14th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Teddy 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
Wet Slabs Going Big in the Illecillewaet
runfasterwhiterabbit,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 12:30PM
Practice Slopes Avalanche
stefan,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 11:25AM
Youngs Traverse
Tiptoed up the illy with a conservative mindset and got green lights all day to carry on over to the 7 steps.
The wind kept it surprisingly cool most of the day up high and we found dry wind pressed powder down the steps that was pleasant to ski. No signs of instability noted, though it was very warm and sloppy below the hut.
Staying high and north facing where it was cooler seemed to be the move today.
kenyonslaneym,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 9:00AM
Practice Double Rainbow
It's an avalanche Double Rainbow! 2 large wet loose, one in each of the Practice Slopes went at 12:27PM. Both paths slid at the same time and the slide on lookers right path went to the creek bottom (unlike the Tuesday MIN where the slide stopped mid fan) so estimate a Sz 3. Couldn't identify the trigger or start zone.
recrd,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 12:00AM
Grizzly Shoulder
Dug a pit around 2000m on grizzly shoulder. CTM15 down 30cm, RP failure. Continued smacking it and got no results on the 5cm crust down 50cm.
Snow was excellent above freezing level.
tylerhutchison10,
Thursday 27th February, 2025 1:00PM
Bonny Moraines
davecummingdsc,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 2:30PM
Little Sifton Tour
Did the Little Sifton Tour up via Grizzly Shoulder. We were the first group to ski off the back of Little Sifton. Visibility was in and out. Powder snow was ankle deep on the north aspect. The ski down the front was mostly good quality skiing until about 200m above the road when it got a bit shmooey. Lots of rubble off the overhead cliffs but most of it had come to rest above the normal ski line. No propagation seen.
gmkayaker,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 11:00AM
Mushroom People Slabs
Set off numerous small slabs on convex pillow features up to 1 meter deep also accompanied with shooting cracks. Snowed continuously all day accumulating up to 8cm of new snow. We stuck to conservative lines and small terrain features for the ride down, conditions were really good in open areas from 1850m down to 1600m where it started getting heavy. No sign of any natural avalanches could be seen coming up the valley but visibility was poor. Exhausting trail breaking in ~50cm of mixed heavy and dry snow and lots of snow sticking to skins coming up the valley.
bvandy,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 2:00PM
Skier-triggered avalanche
Skier-triggered size 1 avalanche on the SE face of Video peak while skinning up. The recent storm slab was the reactive layer, crown was ~30 cm. Avalanche started ~10 m above skier, carried them down 100m (as per GPS track). Skier was not burried, not injured. Heard 1 “whooph” as we started the steeper part of the ascent ~ 100 m below the peak, and that slid 0.5 seconds later. Slope was ~40 degrees.
Skier4000,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 11:30AM
Bonney moraines
Snow was falling lightly when the day started and continued on and off through the day. Snow on the ground was wet and heavy from the parking lot and got gradually better higher up. Not bringing skin wax was a mistake. We dug a quick pit at 1900 m and got a CTM12 about 35 cm down (storm snow layer), with a non-planar fracture line. Hand shears showed similar results. Storm snow was very unconsolidated, making for stellar skiing. The ski out was pleasant. At parking lot, it was raining.
markus.siivola,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 9:08AM
Glacier Crest
Remote trigger from 50 metres away @ 2000 metres on glacier crest southwest slope. 60+ cm crown, only ran 30 metres at most to bench below. Some crossloading was evident. Also triggered the persistent slab on steep NW slopes at roughly same elevation. Be wary of steep open slopes and wind loading.
EEArms,
Monday 24th February, 2025 1:00AM
Stormy day up Connaught
annecayer-huard,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 3:00PM
Teddy Bear Trees
Size 1-2 unknown cause in teddy bear trees. Came from tree line above skin track on 30-35deg slope
erikdavidhall,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 11:00AM
Instability signs starts to show up
Snowing and warming trend produce some instability sign while navigating in the trees. 30 cm crown on the sun crust remotly trigger about 1m away. Could produce a big avalanche with similar conditions on an open slope.
tlaberge,
Friday 21st February, 2025 12:00PM
Grizzley Trees
We enjoyed some fairly deep powder above treeline on the east aspect of Grizzly Shoulder. Considerable amount of sluffing on steep sections. Some evidence of wind transfer but nothing we rode was reactive. Very crust and hard packed below treeline.
The skin track up the shoulder was very slick and ski crampons were very beneficial. No boot pack was necessary thankfully.
mlewismanning,
Wednesday 19th February, 2025 12:00PM
Little Sifton traverse
The day started blue bird clear. The uptrack on Grizzly Shoulder was hard packed, crusty and slick from traffic and sun, right up to the top of the shoulder. Ski crampons would have been helpful. We chose to bootpack through the very last pitch onto the shoulder. The upper section of the uptrack to the col was in much better condition. Clouds started to roll in at 11:30am, and by 1pm it was 100% cloud with light snow coming down. Poor visibility made the down track a bit tricky until the trees. Noticed zipper crust and generally thick to thin crust on any south facing slopes. A size 1 slab was triggered in dense trees, with suspected failure on the January 30th weak layer. Exited through Puff Daddy. Overall, it was a great day out.
delia.siivola,
Wednesday 19th February, 2025 8:00AM
VRC blindfolded
Fun bump up VRC. Beautiful start to the day, clouds and light snow drifted in around 1pm. Made for very flat light.
VRC and Video are both very tracked. Untracked snow was heavy and supportive. Day old tracks were firm and crusted. Ridgetop snow was sugary and faceted. No signs of instability noted.
Skintrack was well used and slippery, most parties opted for a boot pack halfway up final skin pitch to video peak.
Good day out on the skins, pretty poor ski quality - largely due to vis.
monasheemonkee,
Tuesday 18th February, 2025 11:00PM