Jasper
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Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Keeping it simple
Headed up the Lovat Scout trail. Trail is in great condition and even stepping off the skin track wasn’t awful.
Ski pen off trail was 5-10cm, apart from the odd wallowy step here & there. Overall fairly supportive. Foot pen was supportive until it wasn’t and then it was up to waist deep.
Noted either a crust/harder layer down 20-30cm and then garbage sugary snow below. Average depth of snow was 130cm around 2100m. Snow became more wind affected at ridgecrest with a 2-3cm surface windslab.
We skied southeast facing slopes less than 30 degrees and stayed away from any overhead hazard. Skiing was soft and creamy!
Weather was warm and sunny when we left the car at midday but soon the clouds rolled in and it was lightly snowing for the rest of the afternoon with light winds.
No whumphing or cracking and we didn't observe any natural activity in the surrounding area. Kept it simple and still had a lovely little adventure.
colawinter,
Sunday 23rd March, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Published: Mar 9th, 2025Bring your fat skis and skinny thoughts
If you can stay on top of the snow it's skiing pretty nice. Did a couple of mellow loser laps at treeline. At 2150m snow pack is 100-120cm deep. Ski penetration 30cm, foot penetration 80cm. 10cm of unconsolidated new snow(dry, low density) on top of a 10cm of F+ to 4F layer and then facets and depth hoar to ground. Calm to light wind, snowing S1.
AndrewfromJasper,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 2:00PM
Fryatt
Annual Fryatt trip started off a lot less snowy than it finished. Walked first few kilometers after river crossing. Able to skin from first campground onwards. On the way in on Friday skinning in the valley was on top of a 5cm breakable crust with ~30-50cm of facets underneath. Headwall was treacherous as always.
Up top snow and wind started Friday night and continued until Sunday morning, at times snowing up to S2. Roughly 30cm of accumulation. Winds were moderate gusting strong throughout the weekend. Cloudy, temps warm likely around -4/5.
Due to elevating avalanche hazard skied a couple low angle pitches which were fun and supportive, and some steep dense trees watching out for sharks.
On the way out snow accumulation declined gradually as we went from TL to BTL with only 2 or 3cm by the time we hit the highway. Snow moisture content also gradually increased as we descended, with snow being quite wet and heavy in the valley below the hut.
Noted one wet slab that ran full path to valley bottom, sz 2.5, north aspect, in a gully type feature. Visibility was limited but likely more avalanche activity around.
Great weekend with the fellas.
Youngbloodben,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 11:00PM
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Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
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Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 5th, 2025Destiny Ridge
The 20-30cm of recent storm snow in the Hilda area provided remarkably good skiing in the alpine. Getting up to the alpine was hard work in a weak and unconsolidated below treeline snowpack. There was minimal indication of an unstable snowpack, just one whumph that ran out less than 5m on Destiny Ridge.
rupertw,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 10:00AM
Fryatt Valley
Valley bottom had a very thin snow pack. Above the head wall we had deep enough & soft snow in the trees, and sun crusty snow on facets in the alpine / open bowls.
sagerandle,
Wednesday 19th February, 2025 11:00PM
Hilda Subpeak
Ok day out on hilda. Skiing in the alpine varies between hard wind slab, breakable crust, and facet “pow”. Skiing in the trees was a bit better. Stability felt good. Warmed up in afternoon. Not much snow out there.
coleg.anderson9658,
Tuesday 18th February, 2025 5:00PM
Bald Hills
Beautiful day at Bald Hills. There's been much less wind affect here than at the Icefields. There was a size two wind slab on a steep roll that looks like it was from the previous 24 hours. The snowpack in the area is quite variable. There are a variety of facet layers, wind slabs and crusts in the upper snowpack. One snowpit we dug had no notable shear. The other that is posted here had the extended column fail relatively easily. Good idea to treat each new slope with caution and do some investigation before committing.
darren.farley,
Tuesday 18th February, 2025 3:00PM
Destiny's Ridge
Went for the views, stayed for the terrible ski.
Skied the lookers left gully in hopes to find better snow in the lower section of the slope. We did not find any. 3-5cm ankle grabbing WSL top to bottom.
Notable widespread surface hoar up to 1cm in sheltered areas at Alp. There also appeared to be a small solar crusts in some areas burried under SH.
Potential for more SH developing tonight after the warm sun output today.
No signs of new avalanches observed.
valdes.kj18,
Tuesday 18th February, 2025 9:00AM
Parkers Loop
Rode a steep, narrow, south aspect chute on the backside of parkers yesterday.
Route up to parkers summit was fast on account of the very hard conditions.
On the south aspect itself we found a suncrust (down 5-30cms depending on loading) in various stages of decomposition from recent cold temperatures. Above the crust we saw a 2cm layer of noticeably larger facets with the new wind slab above (also breaking down where it is thinner).
We triggered a small pocket of WSL max 30cms deep <sz 1 in a loaded pocket below the twin ribs in the photos which failed on the larger facets. In the "track" the debris entrained this new faceting windlab sitting ontop of the crust.
In areas of heavy loading I expect this WSL would have the potential to propagate into something bigger with the crust facet combo being a good sliding surface.
Skiing where the WSL has faceted out was actually quite good if that's your thing.
Traversed across the bench at the backside of parkers and popped out on the ridge itself for some white knuckle skiing back to the parking lot.
Great little loop. Maybe one for the spring.
aerialotter,
Saturday 15th February, 2025 10:00AM
Shangrila
Spent Feb 11-13 at Shangrila Cabin. Found expected wind affect in the alpine with evidence of the persistent north wind and some atypical loading zones. Riding was good in sheltered zones, but the summits of Sunset, Aberhart, and Lovat (Trowel) were wind stripped as expected and required boot packing. Noted one size 1.5-2 wind slab that appeared to have failed from a cornice trigger on a northeast aspect.
stevencameronnoel,
Tuesday 11th February, 2025 11:00PM
Shangrila
Spent Feb 11-13 at Shangrila Cabin. Found expected wind affect in the alpine with evidence of the persistent north wind and some atypical loading zones. Riding was good in sheltered zones, but the summits of Sunset, Aberhart, and Lovat (Trowel) were wind stripped as expected and required boot packing. Noted one size 1.5-2 wind slab that appeared to have failed from a cornice trigger on a northeast aspect.
stevencameronnoel,
Tuesday 11th February, 2025 11:00PM
Bald Hills
There was an avalanche that occurred roughly 3-4 days ago on the N- NE aspect slope of baldy viewpoint. There is a cornice forming overtop of the slab avalanche area
ialindop,
Sunday 9th February, 2025 7:00AM
Hope you like wind slab
Heavy wind affect on Parker Ridge, as expected. We were able to do an alpine traverse from Hilda Hut to the far summit of Parker Ridge staying on skis - although snow coverage in some spots was very low. Wind slabs in the alpine everywhere thanks to the continuous strong winds. Skiing down the Parker trail was crusty up top, with some nicer powder low down in the trees.
A group of 3 in our larger group went up Hilda Ridge and reported poor ski conditions (crusty, wind affected, cold, etc... Do you sense a trend here??). They had eyed up Destiny Ridge but did not like the look of the wind affected alpine slopes.
Today went up Nigel basin directly east of the hut. Difficult trailbreaking through faceted snow in the dense forest. Nice powder at treeline with wind affect everywhere in the alpine, but great sunshine all day long. We skied the gully on the east side of the valley which worked well apart from the unsupportive snow base, which meant breaking trail while skiing downhill.
Nice sunny days, great company, but the skiing was not good. Is there any more snow forecasted any time soon??
brendan.clark,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 11:00PM
Signal Mountain Conditions
Went for a ski up Signal Mountain today. Lots of scouring on the ridges and windward slopes from the previous winds. Travel here is basically skinning on rocks and we took our skis off and walked some sections. Some soft snow can be found in sheltered lee areas and the skiing here was great! Snowpack is supportive to skis at treeline with 10cm soft snow on top. Did not ski below treeline.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Thursday 6th February, 2025 2:00PM
AST1 Course
Conducted my last AST1 course for the season for Jasper Hikes & Tours today. Despite the warm and sunny forecast, it remained cloudy all day with temperatures starting off at -12C and rising to just above 0C in the parking lot. Strong NW ridgetop winds were observed to the N of the Bald Hills area but winds locally remained light from the SW-NW, keeping the surface snow cool and dry.
A generally weak and facetted snowpack was observed in our snow profile with large depth hoar crystals visible at the bottom of the snowpack and widespread surface hoar (4-8mm) on the surface in sheltered areas throughout the Bald Hills area (did not obs. the ALP). See results below:
2150m, N-facing, 28 deg.
HS 70cm
CTE3(SP) dn 8 on FC
ECTN3 dn 8 on FC
* Of note, there is a brazen Pine Marten in the parking lot that is getting into people's vehicles. Parks has been notified but until they get to it, keep your doors shut!
sprockter,
Tuesday 28th January, 2025 12:00PM
Parkers
Parkers was hammered on friday. Strong winds from the N/NW all day with little respite. Lots of blowing snow everywhere above treeline. Reverse loading in the alpine and treeline with windward slopes stripped to old hard surfaces and SW through to SE faces seeing decent loading. 1F to P windslab on these aspects seemed pretty stubborn. Surprisingly found some "good" skiing in sheltered alpine features which was short lived. Temps from -5 to -9, no new precip and no new naturals.
aerialotter,
Friday 24th January, 2025 6:00PM
Nigel Basin
Went for a ski in the Nigel Basin today. -21 in the morning but warmed up to -7. The snowpack below tree line is very faceted and not supportive. Trail breaking and skiing is doable but not great. There is widespread wind effect in the alpine and at tree line but some soft snow can still be found. We dug a snow profile at tree line and almost all of the entire 100cm snowpack was made up very loose (fist density) facets. In the alpine we found lots of wind slabs sitting on top of these facets. We had numerous Whumphs and some cracking. We avoided any real avalanche terrain at tree line and above.
darren.farley,
Monday 20th January, 2025 1:00PM
Frigid weekend at wind hammered Hilda
Spent the weekend at Hilda hut with the intention to checkniut Destiny Ridge and Alpine Connector to Parker's Ridge. Frigid cold temps with the windchill in the alpine and solid, wind hammered slopes kept us mainly at treeline and below. Snow and decent turns still to be found below treeline, but lots of sharks lurking everywhere. No signs of instability noted or signs of recent avalanches.
emma.pettey,
Sunday 19th January, 2025 1:00PM
Hilda
Great day up at hilda, surprised by Temps and Ski quality.
-16 @ the car, start and end of the day.
Mostly clear all day with mod to strong winds from the north consistantly transporting snow @ 2800m+.
South aspects skied well with thin wind skin up high, dissappearing at ~2200m. Great coverage throughout.
Couple of test pits and hastys gave unrepeatable results on a new 4F wsl and on one of the Oct crusts which are deteriorating.
Natural loose dry avalanches to size 1 from steep N aspects and small windslab results on multiple aspects below Ridgecrest or crossloaded features to size 1.5. All in the last 24 hrs.
aerialotter,
Saturday 18th January, 2025 11:00PM
Churchill Bushwhack
Went for a little walk to check out Churchill slide paths. The creek is crossable but then the willow wacking begins. Average 35cm up to 1700m at which point we turned around. Praise Ullr for more snow!
colawinter,
Saturday 18th January, 2025 11:00AM
Bald Hills
Bald hills consisted of wind slab about 10cm below the fresh snow. The slopes on the N and NE sides contained soft powder. The peak and ridge line consisted of wind slabs that were firm enough to walk on as well as deep persistent slabs roughly 60cm below the surface of the snow. Below the deep persistent slab consisted of a grainy facet layer between the base and the persistent slab. Wind was consistently around 2-4km/hr until the sun started to poke through the clouds there were minimal small gusts around 10-12km/hr. Tree line was great for skiing some fresh powder. I did not dig a snow pit, I just probed with my ski poles to compete an informal snow profile test, walked through in non tracked areas to feel the snow.
ialindop,
Sunday 12th January, 2025 7:00AM
Aberharts Nose
Squeezed a few days in at Shangri-la cabin along the skyline trail. Obvious wind affect in all aspects TL and above. Found pockets of good skiing in sheltered areas, though, it is quite skied out.
valdes.kj18,
Wednesday 8th January, 2025 11:00PM
North Sunwapta Canyon
All pitches of the North Sunwapta Canyon were very wet today. The last pitch was wet and still forming. Climbable but challenging ice. Definitely bring your gore-tex.
We climbed the South Canyon a few weeks ago and all of the pitches are in as well.
farleydarren6,
Wednesday 8th January, 2025 2:00PM
Tabernac bowl slides
Oh Le Tabernac was unaffected, but two avalanches came down the left and middle routes in the Tabernac bowl
nic.of.the.mtns,
Monday 6th January, 2025 1:00PM
Jaques Lake
Wind slabs on the alpine and above tree line areas. Tree line had good conditions. Snow load was quite low less than 30cm in the trees. Great snow shoeing conditions not great ski conditions in the trees line areas.
Temperature was -18C at 8:00am this morning
6:00pm the temperature started to increase with the high being -8C the the Jaques Lake Valley.
ialindop,
Saturday 4th January, 2025 7:00AM
Boundary Lake
Brief but enjoyable tour above Boundary Lake. The lake looks to be almost entirely frozen over but the lack of visible skin track across led us to opt for a crossing of the creek at the east end of the lake instead. Temp felt like -5 to -10 all day with minimal wind. Weather was overcast with brief periods of sun and snow (although it didn’t amount to much). We stayed out of the alpine and stuck to more sheltered areas from tree line below which offered plenty of good skiing. No signs of instability or natural slides were observed.
cocobongo,
Sunday 29th December, 2024 1:00PM
Bald Hills
Snowpack during climb was shallow (50-60 cm) somewhat supportive, faceted near ground.
Alpine ridge was variable and wind scoured, but some nice turns skiing down from summit (NE asp) along 35 degree slope
No signs of instability or recent activity
s.t.jahns,
Saturday 28th December, 2024 2:00PM
Destiny
We skied Destiny today. Started around 0930, -4C through the day. Wind died down around 1030. Beautiful sunny day, with intermittent cloud cover. We dug a pit around 2240m at treeline on east facing slope on our way up:
—height of snow 75cm
—Ice crust at 10cm, failed at 4 wrist but snow that slid was not super consolidated
—3-4 layers of crust
After coming off Destiny, we wanted to get down into the gully to do a run in the powder at treeline (which turned out to be deep and not supportive and hell to skin back up). We both came over a short slope (which didn’t seem like a roll-over) to get into the gully, east facing and noticed a crack after we looked back (see picture). Neither of us felt any movement.
We evaluated the terrain and snow a few different times on the way up to Destiny and felt confident. So it was a bit of a shock to see the crack in the small slope we skied down to get into the gully. All in all, a great day.
shannonjbrown,
Sunday 22nd December, 2024 8:30AM
Curtain Fall
The main pillar on Curtain Call broke off, likely on December 10th. The pillar was fully connected before it broke. Widespread SH up to 7mm in the Beauty Creek area observed on December 11th.
darren.farley,
Saturday 14th December, 2024 3:00PM
Bald Hills
Not too many parties out at the Bald Hills today. Strong winds from the south west has stripped some features of snow and created wind slabs in others. There's still good skiing to be had in sheltered areas though. We observed some cracking when skiing across small wind loaded slopes down 10-20cm. Cracking would propagate up to 10 m away. We dug one pit on a slope at tree line that produced hard ECTP results on the October crust at the bottom of the snowpack. This weakness at the bottom of the snowpack will likely be with us for a long time and make skiing more committing features a bit of a gamble.
darren.farley,
Saturday 14th December, 2024 2:00PM
Destiney Ridge
We skied Destiney Ridge. The alpine was wind affected while sheltered treeline rode well. 4-5mm surface hoar was noted in multiple test pits down about 40cm. We had repeatable hard sudden collapse result in snow pit tests on this layer.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Monday 9th December, 2024 11:00PM
Parkers Ridge
10-20cm of recent snow with minimal wind effect made for nice skiing at Parker's Ridge today. -16 at the car. There were strong west winds at the top of the ridge but luckily the winds weren't affecting the ski slopes too much.
Dug a pit at treeline just above where there was a size two avalanche a week ago. The avalanche most likely slid on facets above one of the early season crusts. The crusts and facets are all still there and the slopes have been reloaded. Be careful!
darren.farley,
Monday 9th December, 2024 1:00PM
Short Days - Cold Snow
The snow was a bit wind affected in open alpine terrain but ultimately provided some good skiing in sheltered areas. Short days on Hilda in December with the sun disappearing at 11:00.
timsjohnson,
Monday 9th December, 2024 9:00AM
Bald Hills
No obvious signs of instability. Snowpack was mostly supportive. 10-15cm new snow with some wind transported snow up high
gdski,
Sunday 8th December, 2024 12:00AM
Hilda Area
Variable snow in Hilda area today, stuck to mellow tree line slopes and avoided the alpine. Mix of old and new wind slab, powder, and crust depending on aspect, with best turns being in sheltered trees. No signs of instability, dug a few hand shears that were failing in the hard range, although we were only S faces.
Typical ski out gully is quite tracked, so we ended up traversing and bushwhacking which made for quite an adventure. Coverage is actually quite good after this most recent storm, no real base damage to speak of.
wseah,
Friday 6th December, 2024 11:00PM
Good snow at treeline
Above treeline the snow was noticably wind affected so we avoided this area because of poor ride quality, no whumpfing or shooting cracks though. Great riding in the trees with consistent soft light powder
Dawson K,
Sunday 1st December, 2024 9:00AM
Chutes up Parkers/Athabasca
Lots of refill over 3hrs in old paths we saw. Wind mostly scouring. Wanted to ski steep N aspect but didn't look good and left to a cruisy trail down. Parkers is in rough shape compared to a week ago
Mike B,
Sunday 1st December, 2024 8:30AM
Destiny Ridge
We dug a snow profile on the center bowl feature on Destiny Ridge. Had hard sudden planar compression test and extended column test results, on 6mm surface hoar down 60cm's (November 20th SH layer). We decided not to ski the feature.
Overall a lovely day with nice skiing where the wind hasn't been.
darren.farley,
Friday 29th November, 2024 1:00PM
Deep powder on Hilda Ridge
We skied the south side of Hilda Ridge from the westernmost col. There was no skin track to this point, so we had to break trail for the last little bit, and we descended the long slope to the moraine through untouched deep powder. Our enjoyment of the powder was tempered somewhat by the overcast skies and flat light. Winds were calm to light, temperatures mild, and skies partly cloudy to overcast. Very good early season conditions, better than Parker Ridge which we skied the day before.
esmeadows,
Wednesday 27th November, 2024 8:00AM
Pretty good for November!
With all the early season hype, Parker's definitely feeling the traffic, opted for the N ridge and rode E/SE slopes, HS highly variable from 80cm in sheltered areas in TL, to wind scoured rocks. Variable Crust present anywhere from 30cm down in the sheltered TL to a surface crust which also varied greatly in its thickness.
All in all, it skied well for November!
gauvreaun,
Wednesday 27th November, 2024 7:00AM
Good early season skiing on Parker Ridge
Good conditions at Parker ridge. Snow depth mid Mountain 85 cm, Ridgetop 25 cm. Found good powder in wind sheltered areas. Crusty and wind affected at the top as usual. Take care around rocks and stumps that are close to the surface. We hit a few. Weather was mostly sunny with light wind picking up in the afternoon.
esmeadows,
Tuesday 26th November, 2024 8:30AM
Shades of Damp
Climbed SoB and Rick Blak Route today. Both in great early-season conditions. Last pitch of Shades is wet and chandeliered down low. Rick Blak is as fat as it probably ever gets. Ice is well-formed.
No evidence of avalanches anywhere in the vicinity today. Snow treeline and below seems to be below threshold. Signs of windslab in the alpine though.
matt1998,
Monday 25th November, 2024 7:00AM
A month of Sundays.
Devoid of its usual wind f**kery, parkers skied very very well today. But previous MIN reports sure drew in the crowds.
aerialotter,
Saturday 23rd November, 2024 4:00PM
Parkers Ridge - Upper Ridge
Great riding conditions. Variable HS 60 to 175cm on a large NE aspect.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 19th November, 2024 9:00AM
Parker ridge
k8whiting,
Sunday 17th November, 2024 10:00AM
Hilda hump
Great start to the day with nice champagne on top of a supportive crust. Dug a pit before heading back down and had an unresponsive tap test on an isolated column. Found pockets of up 70cm with majority being between 40 and 50cm. Uniform temperature of -9 atmopsheperic and top and bottom of snow pack. Riding was awesome but deep foot penetrative when transitioning. Didn't ride anything steep but still boogied out as the wind picked up before noon. Great day!
mdurhack168,
Saturday 16th November, 2024 10:15AM
Pretty Not Bad for Bald Hills
We originally took the skis for a walk to burn off a few calories but surprisingly we found some fresh snow & a few good turns.
Average HS 40-50cm above 2100m. The crust at the base of the snowpack wasn’t as supportive or as pronounced as the crust found on the icefields - But still plenty supportive enough!
Skied NE aspects and found some pockets of small wind slab 5-10cm thick (less than size 1)
The bald hills road is skiable & good to go from top to bottom!
colawinter,
Friday 15th November, 2024 11:00PM
Shaking out the cobwebs
My friend Nicola said the skiing was not bad at Hilda and I figured she was full of shit since it's November, but we went for a walk and it turns out, it's pretty not bad! Did a couple of laps at treeline. Avoided the alpine due to rocks. Skied out the uptrack to avoid the moraine and associated rocks. Got some pretty fun early season turns in the gullies and meadows :)
AndrewfromJasper,
Sunday 10th November, 2024 1:00PM
Bald hills road skiing
Skinned to the top of the bald hills road and skied back down. At the top we found great low density powder, 30-40cm deep. Not enough to venture off the road where we knew no big rocks existed. Skinned from the parking lot, and skied down until 1800m. At that point we put skins back on and poled our way over very thin snow.
Bit of a melt/freeze crust forming at lower elevations and some nice looking surface hoar growing at treeline.
andrew.moldovan1991,
Friday 1st November, 2024 11:00PM
Parker ridge
Chill day on Parker ridge, summer trail was filled in until 2200m where we found unsheltered areas had significant wind effect/ really low HS.
In open trees, and sheltered areas variable HS up to 55cm, minimum was 30cm
Had to play around to find stuff out of the wind, to make better skiing and steer clear from the lookers right face near ridgetop, some evident debris (48hrs +) near the end of on avalanche path on an NE slope
matthew,
Friday 1st November, 2024 11:00PM