Northwest Inland, British Columbia

Saturday February 4th Avalanche Canada, 18 hours ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Tour de Dome Northwest Inland: Babine, 1 day ago Observation Today we went into the Babine Mountains, sledding at the Dome. We didn’t see any new avalanches, but we didn’t see much with new snow falling all day. Today wasn’t windy but we did find evidence of previous southwesterly winds. 4 photos Friday February 3rd Avalanche Canada, 1 day ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Getting stuck at seaton Northwest Inland: Babine, 1 day ago Observation Light to non existent winds, snowing all day while riding. 2 photos Thursday February 2nd Avalanche Canada, 2 days ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Wind and snow at Silvern Northwest Inland: Hudson Bay, 2 days ago Observation Today we rode at Silvern Lakes. There was up to 30 cm of storm snow that was being redistributed by moderate to strong southerly winds. Windslab was forming at treeline and alpine. During testing we observed easy to moderate compression test results on the rain crust from last week. 2 photos Never argue with knee deep powder Northwest Inland: Microwave-Sinclair, 3 days ago Observation Today we skied at Ashman ridge. We found 30cm of delightful low density snow above the Jan 25 rain crust. This crust was supportive in the terrain we skied today and made for good fast skiing. 3 photos Wednesday February 1st Avalanche Canada, 3 days ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa New snow at Seaton Northwest Inland: Babine, 4 days ago Observation Today we rode at Seaton. There was up 30 cm of new snow over the rain crust from the warm weather last week. The rain crust was unsupportive to snowmobiles and we could barely feel it while riding. We dug on North West and East facing aspects. 3 photos Tuesday January 31st Avalanche Canada, 4 days ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Monday January 30th Avalanche Canada, 5 days ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Silvern Sunny Day Northwest Inland: Hudson Bay, 6 days ago Observation Took advantage of the beautiful day to explore Silvern Lakes area. Lots of wind transport happening at ridgetop, creating a reactive pocket of windslab just below the ridgetop. 3 photos Sunday January 29th Avalanche Canada, 6 days ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Saturday January 28th Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa car batteries and crust Northwest Inland: Hudson Bay, 1 week ago Observation Today we braved crusty conditions to get the Hankin weather station up and running again. On NE aspects in the alpine there are many loose wet avalanches from 24-48 hours ago. We saw no other new avalanches. 1 photos Friday January 27th Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Hankin-Evelyn adventure Northwest Inland: Hudson Bay, 1 week ago Observation Skinned up route D and the steepish up track to the warming shelter. Light rain turning to wet snow ~1270m. Skied down run 5; snow was quite heavy and sticky. No signs of instability among the uptrack, wet and loose sloughs present on the cabin bowl slope directly above the hut. 3 photos Thursday January 26th Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Crusty conditions to Crater Lake Northwest Inland: Hudson Bay, 1 week ago Observation We were greeted with a 5 cm thick breakable crust on the surface en route to Crater Lake today. The visibility was obscured due to falling snow and moderate to strong southwesterly winds, but we didn’t see any new avalanches. We dug on a SE facing slope at 1600 m and found 145 cm of total snow. 4 photos Wednesday January 25th Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Wet and windy in the Telkwas Northwest Inland: Telkwa, 1 week ago Observation Today we rode in the Telkwas. We had a temp of 1.8C at 1650 m. There was poor visibility, strong southwesterly winds and occasional light rain. We dug on an east facing slope at 1700 m and found 115 cm of snow. 1 photos Simple Seaton Northwest Inland: Babine, 1 week ago Observation Today we went sledding at Seaton Basin. We saw no new avalanches, but visibility into the alpine was poor. At treeline, we found 200 cm of snow on a northeast facing slope. We dug on this slope and were able to produce propagating Extended Column Test (ECT) results 50 cm deep. 2 photos Tuesday January 24th Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Dome Sledding Area Northwest Inland: Babine, 1 week ago Observation Observered lots of shooting cracks in windloaded southern aspects as well as one snowmobiler trigger slide. 1 photos Monday January 23rd Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa 4 Lakes Northwest Inland: Babine, 1 week ago Observation 1.5 remotely triggered on depth hoar from below. Easy aspect of the strange gully feature released as we were 2 photos Sunday January 22nd Avalanche Canada, 1 week ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa Saturday January 21st Avalanche Canada, 2 weeks ago Forecast Regions: Northwest Inland, Babine, East Stikine, Hudson Bay, Kispiox, Microwave-Sinclair, Telkwa