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