Little Yoho
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Guinness Gully natural avalanche
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th March, 2025 12:00PM
Masseys ice climb avalanche
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th March, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Takakaw Falls profile BTL
March 13 and 3 crusts disappear by 2000m. Limited evidence of recent avalanche activity in the area.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 10:28AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Stanley Mitchell Hut area
Skied in the Stanley Mitchell hut area after bailing on the Bow-Yoho due to poor avy conditions. Stayed on south facing slopes where there is a strong supportable crust layer under the 30+cm of new snow from this week. Wumphing was felt occasionally and a few small pockets were noted to have slid in the trees. Large slides were observed across the valley in the alpine. We stayed to mellow slopes in the trees. Low angle pow provided good riding.
michelaadrian,
Thursday 13th March, 2025 11:30AM
Avalanche 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 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Control on Mt Bosworth and Mt Stephen, Monday, March 10
Parks Canada will be conducting avalanche control on Mt Bosworth and Mt Stephen on Monday, March 10. These areas will be closed to the public on March 10.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 9:00PM
Size one sluff
JanM,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:33AM
Bust on breakable crust
Storm track missed. Maybe a couple cm on awful breakable crust. Terrible travel and ski conditions.
At least it was super windy!
Charlie Kelly, King of the Rats,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:00AM
Emerald
Skied up to Hamilton lake via summer trail on an attempt for top hat traverse. There were several old slides with large block avalanche debris likely from the recent SPAW period that slowed travel. Decided to bail on alpine and backtrack, traversed to emerald slide path which looked ok but skied horrendously on hard pack with a grabby crust.
jar3tt,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 9:00AM
Pulpit Nob 1
Terrible ski conditions at Pulpit 1. 10~cm of fresh over a hard icy crust, that would often disappear and become unsupportive snow to ground(likely the micro affects of shade). Very hard to ski conditions. Our tracks had about 3cm on them by the time we got back to the car. Putting my big skis away for the season…
colinhoglund13,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 8:00AM
Ogden shoulder
With strong winds and snowfall throughout the day, we made it up to the south shoulder before deciding to head back down. Swirling winds from every direction, poor visibilty and punchy snow in spots made our decision an easy one. 3-5cm of new snow on top of the recent storm snow made for great skiing all the way down to the lake. Temps warmed up as we decended turning snow to rain near the bottom.
Pocketbagel,
Thursday 27th February, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Control Results - Field Area
Parks Canada conducted avalanche control today on Mt. Field, Stephen and Dennis. 10/12 shots produced slab avalanches up to size 3 failing on the Jan. 30th persistent weak layer. This layer was ~ 40 cm deep in this area. We saw good propagations with most of these avalanches.
We also saw 2-3 natural avalanches on the Mt. Field ski tour to size 2 that ran sometime during the storm.
For Ice Climbers: We put shots above Pilsner and Carlsberg and triggered a size 2.5 that ran over Pilsner and beside Carlsberg. We also put a shot near Guinness Stout and had no result.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 3:00PM
Avalanche Control in Yoho Park on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Mt Stephen, Dennis and Mt Field will be closed.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 3:00PM
Tak Fall Plot Snow Profile
HST was well settled, made for fast skiing. Didn't see any natural avalanche activity but occasionally broke through to the facets below while breaking trail.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 10:00AM
Pulpit
Day up at Pulpit. Punching through to the base pretty easily. Breaking trail on unsupported snow.
Below tree line and within the trees no shooting cracks or whumpfing. Shooting cracks near the ridge and open areas around treeline. Small skier triggered pocket in photo. Above treeline, open areas immediately displayed signs of instability when approached closely.
Avalanche off headwall between p3 and p4 once back in the valley around 3pm just as the sun was out for a bit.
info,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche at Pilsner Pillar Area
braydonmackenzie,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 5:15PM
Facetnating Pulpit 1
Toured up Pulpit 1 with intention to check out North Bowl between Pulpit 1 and Pulpit Peak.
Dug 2 snow profiles:
Profile on South Aspect at 2180m: CT(1). ECTP(3). Failed on facets above suncrust layer 30cm deep.
Profile on North aspect at 2240m: CTM. Failed on windslab 50cm deep. No suncrust found.
Witnessed avalanche activity in steep terrain, and signs of recent slab avalanches into the North bowl led to decision not to ride North bowl and exit through trees instead. High winds in alpine transporting snow. Shooting cracks and one whomph when stepped off skin track. Triggered a rider accidental 0.5 slab avalanche in steep, treed terrain.
Great to have some snow again.. sweet powder in the trees!!
emma.pettey,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 2:00PM
Facetnating Pulpit 1
Toured up Pulpit 1 with intention to check out North Bowl between Pulpit 1 and Pulpit Peak.
Dug 2 snow profiles:
Profile on South Aspect at 2180m: CT(1). ECTP(3). Failed on facets above suncrust layer 30cm deep.
Profile on North aspect at 2240m: CTM. Failed on windslab 50cm deep. No suncrust found.
Witnessed avalanche activity in steep terrain, and signs of recent slab avalanches into the North bowl led to decision not to ride North bowl and exit through trees instead. High winds in alpine transporting snow. Shooting cracks and one whomph when stepped off skin track. Triggered a rider accidental 0.5 slab avalanche in steep, treed terrain.
Great to have some snow again.. sweet powder in the trees!!
emma.pettey,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 2:00PM
Paget Glades
Toured up to approx 1900m on Paget glades today. What felt to be a variable thickness solar crust (thin and punchy) became more pronounced as we got above 1800m. Did a quick hasty pit (1850m, south facing) which showed approx 15cm of powder on top of this crust. Approximately 60cm down was all faceted. On the ride down there were random small slabs, but no signs of instability where we rode. Above our turnaround point the open areas looked to be wind affected. Overall good turns were had, but definitely variable conditions.
RHay,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 12:00PM
Emerald slide path pit/ski
High temps today were evident, surface snow up to 2 Celsius. Heavy on skis. Dug a pit at 1600m. HS 115cm. Results were CTH4 down 35. ECT did not propagate, but still failed CTH3 down 35. Both failures RP.
Skiing was decent, skied the open trees to skiiers right of main descent/gully. Far less tracks than main descent. Lots of parties going up emerald.
williamhobart0,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 12:00PM
Pulpit 4 skier accidental
michael.ravensbergen,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 12:00PM
Pulpit 1 exploration
Decent day exploring around Pulpit 1. Overall impressed with snow quality and stability until we reached alpine slopes. Approached the alpine bowl but turned back due to extremely variable conditions mixing facets, drummy wind slabs with shooting cracks and avy debris from the overhead hazards. Kept things chill in the trees and gully below.
Crossed the lake, mushy surface in the middle of it and some cracking felt.
Watched a huge cornice fall from the top of Waputik, probably wind caused?
monasheemonkee,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 11:00AM
NE Face of Mt. Field
Good turns on the NE face of Mt. Field. Just enough breeze to make it feel cold even with the sun. Wind affected variable snow in places but lots of powder and everything was soft. Exit gully to the road is fairly skied out. Surface hoar starting to form above 2200m. Small lower down near tree line but 6-7mm grains near the summit. Will be spooky when it gets buried.
jwalsh2019,
Monday 17th February, 2025 11:00AM
Paget Peak
Lots of windslab and rapidly changing temperature though out the day. Triggered two slab avalanches size 1.5-2. Managed to get down safely no one was harmed.
cody.niosi03,
Sunday 16th February, 2025 1:00PM
Ogden Bench and Phantom Couloir
Good turns on the bench and in Phantom. Wind affected snow at the top of the couloir was firm but edge-able. No signs of isolated slabs in the line. Excellent turns in powder on the exit to the lake. The bench has lots of tracks but not skied off by any means. HS 175 at the top of the bench.
jwalsh2019,
Sunday 16th February, 2025 11:00AM
Tophat Traverse
Out on the Tophat Traverse, run down from the col was quite tracked out with ~20-30 of heavy 4F snow in untracked areas. We cut one small sz 1 stiff windslab on NE aspect near the top of the run propogating a few meters and entraining snow for 25m before stopping. Midpack supportive and generally well settled.
Track for exit and approach well set, lots of untouched snow around Hamilton lake and Carnavon for lapping opportunities.
cmurrayschlitt,
Saturday 15th February, 2025 2:00PM
Pulpit Sa Sz1
bgulstene,
Saturday 15th February, 2025 9:00AM
Phantom Couloir
Skied Phantom yesterday. -17 °C at the park in the morning. Upper part of the couloir was compressed snow, still enjoyable but little challenging, bottom was mostly powder. Odgen benches are very tracked but still possible to find fresh tracks. Lots of trees still hanging out in the bottom part towards the lake
alelibe98,
Friday 14th February, 2025 8:00AM
Paget Peak traverse
South aspect were quite faceted. Alpine slopes were mostly windslab that is 4cm of soft snow on a puchy styrofoam crust. The lower west slopes of Paget had some decent skiing, 10cm of powder on old faceted crusts. Pleasant day in the sun.
wardsbd,
Thursday 13th February, 2025 1:00PM
Ogden
Enjoyed a nice day in the sun after a week of cold. Ogden skied quite well with 20-25cm of soft F-4F snow on the surface. Lots of tracks on the benches, but still fresh turns and great skiing to be found.
The day warmed up quite a bit when the sun hit and we watched a size 1.5 avalanche run off the headwall around noon presumably windslab or cornice releasing with the new warming and sun.
HS 160 at 2300m, midpack supportive and right side up steadily getting firmer with depth up to 1m, didn't dig any further. Some stubborn 4F soft slab in immediate lees on the benches.
cmurrayschlitt,
Thursday 13th February, 2025 10:50AM
Emerald Toodling
Spent a few days poking around Emerald Peak and the Tophat. We counted 36 people doing the Tophat on Saturday, party on Wayne!
Inconsistent gusty moderate winds from the SW Saturday and Sunday scoured exposed features, ridgelines and my face...but protected areas at all elevations held great skiing.
Protected areas held 25-50cm of faceted snow sitting over a varitable plethora of surfaces (windbuff, suncrust and surface hoar). We observed cracking over the sun crust(TL), and evidence of surface creep above the SH in a BTL start zone.
LeCurtois,
Sunday 9th February, 2025 11:00AM
Pulpit Knob 2
Pulpit Knob 1 has a nice skin track in that leads to backcountry moguls. The first descent from the road had a very dangerous tree fallen across the downhill. Lead to a pile-up, then an extraction of the tree at the end of the day.
Observed a large Cornice failure on the Peak at approximately midday. See picture. Very low wind on the skin track and next to no sun at the time.
Some rather cold gusts of wind later in the day.
Hand shear as we got near the top showed the Jan 30th Solar crust about 2cm thick, 40cm down on the South aspect, SP. Nice skiing on heavy powder on the upper knob lead down to the moguls which were variable at best.
Did one more lap and got out of there as it was bitingly cold and there was a tree needing some attention.
Not usually a hand warmer guy, but I fired up a packet today.
markweedon5678,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 11:00AM
Emerald slide path
Went up approx.900m on Emerald Slide path today. The sky was overcast and the winds were calm until we reached the tree line. Above TL we found the snow was wind affected so we turned back. No signs of instability. There was an approx 15cm of powder on a 1F crust. The Jan 30th layer was found 40-60cm throughout the mid elevations. The ride down was challenging as the powder was sitting on chunks of crust. The main path was quite skied out, but you could find random patches of 30cm powder.
RHay,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 12:00AM
Wind effect
It was a cold day on Mt Field with widespread wind effect. While wind slabs were present in the alpine, they remained largely unreactive. However, near treeline, wind slabs proved more sensitive to ski cuts, likely due to a layer of well-preserved surface hoar at that elevation. One slab, estimated at size 1.5 to 2, released at the entrance of a steeper gully and ran for roughly 200 meters downslope.
climbersrock.eugene,
Friday 7th February, 2025 8:00AM
White Rabbit
In Couloir firm Pencil hard snow that was very supportive to all skiers.
On approach any areas sheltered from recent winds held 15-25 cm of new snow above 5cm windslab.
Underneath this windslab were many intact surface hoar crystals.
This slab was not responsive to skier traffic on angles under 30 degrees that we traveled on.
In areas exposed to wind this new snow had been blown away and slab was closer to 15 cm thick, still unresponsive to skier traffic with no indications of shooting cracks/propagation
333marshmallows,
Thursday 6th February, 2025 4:00PM
Ogden ski resort
Today we made it up phantom couloir in some chilly temps, there was some pretty variable conditions through out due to a wind skin that had formed in the line, didn’t top out today stopping about 30 m below the summit due to worsening wind slab concern. In the line its self there was supportive crust down 10-15cm. Through the lower choke I set off a 15 m wide windslab that was 10-15cm deep but didn’t entrain anything below and settled about 5 m down from the crown. The lower fan was lovely with 40 cm of fist and great skiing.
The benches has seen heavy, heavy traffic although still some fresh lines around skiing was great with 35 cm of fist onto of a supportive crust.
Ps Get out there and work on that early season goggle tan.
jjinwood13,
Thursday 6th February, 2025 7:14AM
Truckers delight/weather station bowl
Wind has left the area either hard, or bare. High quality snow in the trees, but not deep enough
cwoolnoughh,
Monday 3rd February, 2025 11:00PM
Emerald Peak Sneak Day
Lots of low density snow sitting on top of Jan 30 down about 30cms. Did a quick test pit got CTM12 BRK and ECTX. Evidence of debris older than 48hrs size 2.
connadam,
Monday 3rd February, 2025 8:30PM
Top Hat Tipped
Evidence of widespread avalanche cycle in the past 24hrs from the recent storm at all elevations in the Top Hat/Emerald Basin zone. See Avalanche Tab for 2 notables (Sz 2.5 and 3).
IBTTLM,
Sunday 2nd February, 2025 10:00AM
Ogden
40cm of new snow above 2200m. The snow was upside down and we did a lot of submarine of the skis. A few dry loose off odgen summit ridge on East aspect to size 1.5 Na. Minor cracking around the skin track, tough trailbreaking.
wardsbd,
Friday 31st January, 2025 11:00PM
Slide Path in Need of a Refresh
Lots of tracks in Emerald Slide path from the recent dry spell. Still decent pockets of powder scattered throughout and more as you get higher. Will benefit from the snow this weekend to refresh the area. Measured snow pack depth between 80cm-120cm in the lower slopes. Some isolated windslabs forming and evidence of sun crusts in more solar aspects. Shaded areas still have very dry and airy powder though.
darryl.trautman,
Thursday 30th January, 2025 5:00PM
Mt field
alexandremartineau1992,
Tuesday 28th January, 2025 9:00AM
Solar Sluffing in Steep South-Facing Terrain
steven.a.kovalenko,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 11:00PM
Ogden bench
Super fun day out at Ogden bench. Was busy, about 20-30 people out but not that many fully gained the bench. Snow is definitely a little wind affected but still good skiing to be had. The most obvious ski areas are definitely starting to get tracked out.
The top of the snowpack has a very supportive layer covered by 5-10 cm of somewhat consolidated pow. Any quick tests with poles/hands resulted in no slab formed. However, one member of our party did make very small shallow slab slides on the supportive layer on two of his turns (see photo), but there was no further triggering or any propagation from this.
ishaq,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 10:00AM
Mount Field
Weather - clear in the morning
Slight breeze and partially cloudy in the afternoon.
As we approached the alpine, we did not see any signs of recent avalanche activity. The ridge between Wapta Mountain and Mount Field had a cornice, but it was out of the way of the uptrack.
We decided to dig a pit around the last bit of trees located 2060 meters (51.43798, -116.45116). We probed 130 cm of snow here and did two column tests - both with no results. We did not observe windslab. Density tests showed low density softer snow on top of higher density snow on all depths except the bottom, where facets are easier to penetrate than the upper layers. We did not do an extended column test.
We encountered wind affected snow higher on the crux headwall. We did 7 hand shear tests while climbing (2 failed over a possible wind crust, and 5 didn't). We made the decision to keep going as we were almost past the steep section.
Past the headwall, the slope mellows out. We skinned up easily to the summit. There was some wind and clouds, but, for the most part, clear. The surrounding views were spectacular.
The cornice did not exist east of the summit, so we dropped here. When we reached the headwall on the way down, we saw 10-11 people starting to come up. We traversed all the way skiers left to minimize the overhead hazard. The skiing was amazing, and the powder was pristine. Beautiful skiing all the way until we reached the trees in the avi path. Here, the riding quality deteriorated quickly as the snow became mostly crusty. Lower down, the skiing quality got better again as we got into more open areas.
braveali2,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 7:00AM
Phantom Couloir
Skied Phantom couloir. Snow is very wind affected/consolidated all the way up the couloir. Hand cuts were solid and no propagation were observed. Closer to rocks (3/4 up) the slab is sitting more on facets but still bonding relatively well and the slab is thinner.
Ski quality gets better in the bottom half of the couloir with softer snow. Good ski on the moraine further down, even got some fresh tracks.
Didn’t observe any signs of recent slabs or signs of instability in the couloir
Only loose dry from the steep slops from the past few days and maybe an old small slab covered with new snow on the main moraine.
Trees on the trail below the lake (except one) have been cleared since last week ! Thanks for that
-18 at the car in the morning, almost no wind all day, sunny then overcast then sunny again. Cathedral summit looks very very dry
MATHURIN,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 7:00AM
Top Hat
Not much to add to the forecast as seems pretty bang on, however if you thought you might be able to be sneaky and find some untouched zones, let me tell you it’s def not that. Upper pitch good as can spread out, bottom pitch was a bit rowdy with hard old tracks, soft tracks and occasional fresh turns. No signs of wind slab but some sluffing in steep terrain. Still skied well and skied very fast compared to last week.
Note to Parks: ran into a larger hiking party wandering their way up Emerald Basin and into avalanche terrain w. zero idea or gear. Not super shocking as the luge track out the bottom is such a highway it looks like a hiking trail, but may be worth a sign.
bdpiche,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 7:00AM
The other side of the lake
Variable conditions. Some windslabs that steered us around certain features and also nice facetted pow. Sloughing in steep sheltered terrain. 5 HN through the day. Dry loose off the steep headwalls.
j.majorossy,
Thursday 23rd January, 2025 3:00PM
Ogden Benches
Rode Ogden Benches today. Stellar skiing conditions with up to 10cm extremely light fist- snow on top of another 10cm of fist and very few tracks higher up. Winds were light gusting moderate from the SW and could hear much stronger winds at ridge top with lots of blowing snow, snowing s-1 to s1 all day. This was isolated to the west of the divide with no new snow on the Alberta side.
Dug a test pit at 2250m on a south aspect. Snowpack was right side up and with a dense 1 finger midpack supportive to boots. HS 155cm. ECTN and no results on 1 shovel shear and one rp failure down 15 on the 1 finger midpack in the second shovel shear.
jackvanlierop3807,
Thursday 23rd January, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Control Results from Jan. 17th, 2025
Parks Canada did avalanche control on several paths that affect the road on Mt. Dennis, Mt. Field and Mt. Stephen on January 17th, 2025. Results were generally small windslabs or loose dry avalanches that gathered mass in the steep facetted tracks. One path on Mt. Dennis put debris on the Field Back Road. Results of interest to climbers are shown in the attached photos. The start zones of Pilsner and Carlsberg were not bombed as the snowpack looked quite thin, however there was an older natural avalanche above Pilsner that was noted on the control mission. Guinness was bombed with no result.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 22nd January, 2025 1:00PM
Emerald slide path
Good turns above treeline, well skied below treeline. Saw some sz 1 avalanches in the alpine, 1 natural (south aspect) and 3 skier accidentals (east aspect). Cornices have been well fed by recent wind. Lots of evidence of yesterdays wind in transport and loading in the alpine. Warmer than forecasted, started seeing rollerballing off the skin track at around 1130, and snow was moist in the alpine at 1300.
breemcoll,
Wednesday 22nd January, 2025 8:00AM