North Rockies, British Columbia / Alberta
Tree cookies
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
19 hours ago
Observation
With cooler temps and snow in the forecast today we went to check out the action at Mount West. About 5cm of new snow fell while we were riding and the winds were light from the north. The meadows and small features by Mount West were perfect for sledding with the intermittent visibility we had.
3 photos
Friday January 27th
Avalanche Canada, 19 hours ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Training Day
North Rockies:
Tumbler,
1 day ago
Observation
Today we went to Core Lodge to find out how the east side of the Rockies was responding to the warm temps and strong westerly winds. We found a supportive snowpack with a melt freeze crust up to 1500m on the surface and saw cornices building on east facing ridge crests.
5 photos
Thursday January 26th
Avalanche Canada, 1 day ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Spot the Ptarmigan
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
2 days ago
Observation
We headed to Hasler today to see how the big warm up was affecting the snowpack. Heavy snow, pinwheels, and tree bombs were found up to 1600 m. Strong winds redistributed snow into wind slabs in exposed areas.
3 photos
Wednesday January 25th
Avalanche Canada, 2 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Careful terrain selection
North Rockies:
McGregor,
3 days ago
Observation
We have been up here at Red Cabin area since the 22nd on an AST2 course. About 30-40 cm new snow in the couple days prior to our arrival. Then 15 cm nightly with significant west wind on the 24th. Visibility limited, but a few breaks allowed us see several alpine start zones.
1 photos
A Grey Day
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
3 days ago
Observation
We found some powder and a supportive snowpack while sledding at Bijoux. Also, we saw debris from an avalanche, on a wind loaded slope, that happened in the last 24hrs. With 'flat light' and big wind slabs on north to east facing slopes we decided to stick to low consequence terrain.
3 photos
Tuesday January 24th
Avalanche Canada, 3 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Monday January 23rd
Avalanche Canada, 4 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Monday January 23rd
Avalanche Canada, 4 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Blue River, Clearwater, McBride, Premier, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Clemina, North Monashee, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson
Busy Torpy day
North Rockies:
McGregor,
5 days ago
Observation
Great day out at the Torpy Burn, along with everyone else! Recent storm snow was unconsolidated for the first couple hundred meters vertical above the road, then had more slab characteristics with some wind effect higher up.
3 photos
Straight back to the aluminum bowl
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
5 days ago
Observation
Another beautiful day in the Hasler riding area after a receiving a good reset. Only one older avalanche was observed in our travels to the aluminum bowl.
4 photos
Upper Torpy
North Rockies:
McGregor,
5 days ago
Observation
Pit dug at 1750 meters on a south aspect. 0-25 cms was fist soft and sloughed away loosely along a 25cm layer in 8 taps, 25-35 cms was 4 finger firm with a failure at 14 taps along a 35 cm deep thin crust. Another failure at 29 taps at a thin crust 60 cms deep.
2 photos
Sunday January 22nd
Avalanche Canada, 5 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
North Rockies, Sugarbowl, McGregor, Pine Pass
Triple Ps! Pine Pass Powder
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
6 days ago
Observation
Snowpack elevation 1200.m. We were curious to assess the deep persistent and persistent layers in this part of the world. We identified 3 crust layers at approx 60, 90 and 140cm down. Our ECT test yielded no result.
3 photos
Saturday January 21st
Avalanche Canada, 6 days ago
Forecast
Regions:
North Rockies, McGregor, Pine Pass
Friday January 20th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
North Rockies, McGregor, Pine Pass
Better in Blue
North Rockies:
Renshaw,
1 week ago
Observation
Things are still unseasonably thin around the Renshaw with rocks and trees poking up in many unusual places. We had great visibility today and took the opportunity to check things out in the alpine. We found the best riding in deeper pockets of wind loaded terrain.
4 photos
Checking out shallower ridge crest snowpacks
North Rockies:
McGregor,
1 week ago
Observation
One of today’s objective was to validate the reported persistent and deep persistent layers in terrain locations that have shallower snowpacks such as near ridge crests. I did a profile on a north aspect at 1760 m elevation just below ridge crest. Slope angle 32 degrees.
2 photos
Thursday January 19th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
Wednesday January 18th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
Tuesday January 17th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
Monday January 16th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Pine Pass, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
Warm, wet, and squishy
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
1 week ago
Observation
Great day in Calzon again for an AST course. Snow was pretty good especially closer to the trees on the south side of the valley. There’s an inversion around 1100m, it was -6 at the truck and 0 at 1200 m. We found a rain crust everywhere we went, just a couple cm down, and it was reactive in tests.
3 photos
Sunday January 15th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Clearwater, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Pine Pass, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
Saturday January 14th
Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Clearwater, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Pine Pass, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler
White rabbit
North Rockies:
Pine Pass,
2 weeks ago
Observation
A snowfall warning for Pine Pass had us traveling to Mount Morfee keen to check how much snow, (about boot top, but it rode deeper than that) how it was bonding with the old surface (we could see blowing snow at ridge crests otherwise it stuck to where it fell) and how the persistent weak layer was…
2 photos
Friday January 13th
Avalanche Canada, 2 weeks ago
Forecast
Regions:
Cariboos, North Rockies, Clearwater, McBride, Quesnel, Sugarbowl, Kakwa, McGregor, Pine Pass, Renshaw, Robson, Tumbler