Purcells
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Deluge Mountain / climax col
ssydneylm,
Sunday 27th April, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wet Slabs, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Spring Conditions
Rode the Forester drainage up to the Catamount Glacier, still lots of snow up above the glacier, we ran out of probe at 320cm and still didn't tag bottom even in the snow pit.
Dug a 130cm deep pit and did some compaction tests, snow was sturdy and didn't get any propagation or fracturing until pried the side of the column and it clean sheared at the bottom of the pit.
Riding was mediocre, snow was well set up, and the weather couldn't have been better. Great day for touring around.
Towards the end of the day sun soak faces and cornices were starting to let go making for some smaller slides in the class 1-1.5 range, predominantly in the couloirs.
Beautiful day over all
kaelan.bovey,
Friday 25th April, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Dogtooth Rangin'
Spent the last few days roaming the Dogtooth Range. Supportive crust on all solar aspects. Good corn could be harvested up high around noon. Cold dry facetted snow on polar aspects down to 2200m, with a supportive crust below this elevation. Debris from Mar 26th Na cycle is beginning to smooth out but can still buck you if you're not paying attention. 5-10cm of storm snow today (Apr 21) by the time we headed back to the barn. It's still winter up in the high country! DTS
bradley.lorriman,
Monday 21st April, 2025 4:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Surprisingly sugary on high south faces
The whole upper south face of the Second Tooth was covered in boot-deep coarse facets. Skied surprisingly well—if you’re into that sort of thing. I was kind of shocked given how high the isotherms have been recently. The ski out is still hanging in there, though it’s definitely getting a bit pine-needly in spots.
Skibunny103,
Friday 18th April, 2025 5:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Report from the tiniest alpinist
I’m only 7 weeks old, and this was my first ski! So I’m no expert (yet) on avvy conditions. But my dad is trying to teach me already! He’s a forecaster for Avalanche Canada and I’ve been coming to some of his meetings already! The difference between storm slabs and wind slabs still confuse me!!
I'd say conditions were pretty good, although I did sleep through most of the ski. Snow was nice and soft, and made some nice white noise on the descent for me to snooze to.
100% would go again.
Gillian Nahanni,
Saturday 12th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Crusty dusty
Lots of fresh cornice growth in the slack. Good turns on unskied terrain off of ozone north with boottop creamy powder. The south west half of ruedis north seemed to be a little less debris ruined. Flat solar surfaces had the best ski quality we found. Notably, we ran into a grizzly ascending molars south towards the Toblerone. He seemed like he wanted nothing to do with us but blocked our ascent path. We went and skiied some other stuff.
Skibunny103,
Monday 7th April, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Wet / Rain below 2100m
Snow above the crust around 2000m is at zero C. The snow could be described as isothermic above the crust. Sleds where post holing down to crust which was bridging the higher temps. With the added rain below 2100m, we are seeing significant amounts of snow down low disappearing. Get high, stsy high. The cornices are weak and would avoid any over head if venturing out. Signs of greenhousing today in areas, but not consistent. Need a freeze. Lots of people bailing from ski traverses...
toddthetoad,
Monday 7th April, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025From Farnham Creek to the base of Mt. Delphine
Recent naturals noted on all aspects.. Most unstable feeling snow was below treeline in the dense trees where the refreeze was poor. Up high, everything felt frozen in place.
Ed M,
Monday 31st March, 2025 6:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Jumbo Nogo
Tried to get into Jumbo Hut this morning but were greeted with significant avalanche debris covering the sled road in. Every single path along the way has slid to ground in the last few days. Temps were 1 degree at 11 am at the sled drop off area and 6 degrees by the time we got back around 1:30pm. Unfortunate but I think we made the right call.
Kokaneer,
Friday 28th March, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Gorman Lake to Cirque
As expected, plenty of natural avalanching throughout the day between Gorman and Cirque.
jwlaboucane,
Tuesday 25th March, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Whomp Whomp
Attempted to make it out to Jumbo for some mellow tree skiing but turned back ~2/3 of the sled in due to warming temps, rain, and lack of a refreeze down low. Close to 30cm new snow on the road from the days prior and was very wet. Freezing levels looked to be at least 1700m at 9am. Hadn't noticed any new debris in the runouts. After crossing a several paths on the road and feeling not so great moving under them we decided to turn around and on our way back saw small new debris in a few of the paths that had come from lower in the tracks., upper start zones still looked intact. Back to training for spring missions I guess.
strongian42,
Monday 24th March, 2025 9:00AM
Spring is here
Skied amazing powder on Sunday March 25. 30+ cm of fresh snow. No signs of instability on Sunday.
Monday morning woke up to 7cm of fresh snow, temperature was +2°C at 1800. Ventured up to the ski area and saw that a natural size 2.5 had released less than 12 hours ago. Snow quality on Monday was heavy and wet. Decided to head home.
spegler,
Monday 24th March, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Deep Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025March 18 Pit Results
None of the typical “red flags” were observed. Sun exposure throughout the day led to moderate warming on exposed slopes, snow did not warm to the point of becoming wet or sticky.
No sign of natural avalanches. Lots of pinwheeling on sunny slopes.
Skied shaded, sheltered, low angle supported slopes. Amazing powder! Sun crust forming on sun-exposed aspects by midday.
andrewking8,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 9:31AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Rudi's Pit
Brad Roach,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Sled Remote - Partial Burial
Todays travel philosophy for our group of 2 was making conservative choices in low angle terrain. We were only exposing ourselves to features that had already run during the previous storm cycle or which were small and isolated enough to not pose a threat.
403johns,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 1:30PM
Forster Creek
Went sledding up Forster Creek on Saturday. Stayed cool throughout the day, lightly snowing, with the sun trying to poke through. We parked our sleds on the north (right hand side) of the meadow near the bottom of the headwall and skinned up a mellow creek bed and into the trees on the south facing slopes to about 2200m (at TL). We did not notice any natural or human triggered avalanche activity, cracks, or slabbing. Did not appear to be wind affected where we were. We did notice the crust layer down about 20cm of fresh but it appeared to bond well as we ski cut a 33 degree open treed slope at the top and had no reactivity, only minor sluffing. Overall great day.
Kokaneer,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 9:00AM
Baribeau
Sorry no pics. Very wintery once you get above 1700m. 30-40 cm new snow from the last few days. Great skiing, very low density new snow, minimal slab properties observed, except on steep slopes at tree line. Did not observe Alpine. Saw a couple of recent natural avalanches and heard one audible. Would expect a more extensive natural cycle with a bit more load.
npin,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Quartz Creek
ethan.thorn00,
Friday 14th March, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Gorman storm
Slide path at 13/14 went through the trail. Most of been last night or early this am. Lots of evidence of slab avalanche on the alpine slopes in front of warm up shelter. Few couloir slid from the north facing Rocky faces. I don’t see the club grooming anytime in the weeks to come. The avalanche hazard will remain high till the weather settle for more stable pattern. Definetely heads up hockey out there.
sebravens,
Thursday 13th March, 2025 1:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Hello Facets my old friend, I've come to dig you out again
*Viewer discretion is advised*
I'm just an amateur who dug a test profile in a spot that has almost definitely been skiied over recently and throughout the season and therefore not a good representation. If you should take away anything, it's that the layer of facets is still present and could be a problem.
Saw a natural slab avalanche from a distance on lookers left of Molars South. Crown was across entire part of that face. Looked like some fresh snow was covering it but still quite recent. (Picture included)
Lots of bombing on Redemption N by KHMR patrol with explosive triggered slides observable from Rudi S.
Test profile on north side of Rudi's ridge at ridgeline: CTM15 SC on FC 3-6mm layer down 120. Same layer I saw a more resistant result next to this spot 2 weeks ago but this facet layer is now 20cm deeper with the recent snowfall. ECTN15 partial fracture as can be seen in picture. Foot pen 65. HS 165 at test profile.
**If you are dropping into Rudi N first entrance skier's right, be aware there may be a small pit left by me (picture included) filled it as much as I could.
Zeds,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 3:00PM
Gorman South slopes
Stuck to mellow terrain on South aspects today.
jonasphoke,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025RCR, a sinking ship
Hoy hoy mousaillons, hopped in early in the powder ship at kicking horse mtn resort to have a taste of that promised blower pow. 20 min later one gondola fell off the cable (rip KHMR). Still early in the day we decided to venture up the slack country in our blower pow quest. Toured up all the way up to Reudis ridge and then noticed some avalanche debris in the fans from maybe yesterday/last night storm. After mitigation and dropping some decent sized cornices into the couloir we felt comfortable skiing. Nothing really moved while skiing the couloir but then I arrive to a size 3 (maybe ?) avalanche debris pretty much wall to wall in Reudis north bowl. Went up to Molars and saw similar avalanche debris on the north side. Molars south already slid with the solar input. Heads up out there captains, the ship is very wobbly and might be sinking already!
trkfahmy,
Monday 10th March, 2025 12:00PM
RCR, a sinking ship
Hoy hoy mousaillons, hopped in early in the powder ship at kicking horse mtn resort to have a taste of that promised blower pow. 20 min later one gondola fell off the cable (rip KHMR). Still early in the day we decided to venture up the slack country in our blower pow quest. Toured up all the way up to Reudis ridge and then noticed some avalanche debris in the fans from maybe yesterday/last night storm. After mitigation and dropping some decent sized cornices into the couloir we felt comfortable skiing. Nothing really moved while skiing the couloir but then I arrive to a size 3 (maybe ?) avalanche debris pretty much wall to wall in Reudis north bowl. Went up to Molars and saw similar avalanche debris on the north side. Molars south already slid with the solar input. Heads up out there captains, the ship is very wobbly and might be sinking already!
trkfahmy,
Monday 10th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 8th, 2025Bootleg Mountain
sylaswelch,
Friday 7th March, 2025 9:00PM
Forester meadows
We stayed in the bottom of the valley given the high temps. Did watch a group make the catamount climb but this seemed foolish given the state of the snowpack. Spent a lot of the day postholing up to my chest. Sled got stuck anytime i sawed through the top layer. No cohesion below 50 cm.
skiasessippi,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 10:00AM
Jumbo Creek to Glacier Dome
Skinning in the lower elevations was a challenge because the snow felt very unconsolidated in spots. Above tree line, I couldn’t feel the weak layer while skiing. Regardless, I stayed off anything above 30°. I jumped on some small test slopes and couldn’t get anything moving. The only recent avalanche I saw was the one in the photo which I suspect was control work. There were some older naturals, but they had new snow on them. No recent natural avalanches seen today.
Ed M,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 9:00PM
Good but touchy
Spent a cautious day roaming around the drainages south of golden on the dogtooth. Snow was surprisingly light for how warm the temps have been but variable conditions ranging from wind effect to deeper pockets depending on the aspect. A crust can be felt on upward travel but mostly unnoticeable on the ski down. In isolated sheltered areas some whumpfing sounds were heard, on the skin track up hand shears proved to be reactive 20cms down on the crust we could feel.
We kept it super mellow and really just wanted to get a feel for how the slopes we handling the high temps and new load.
Observed multiple natural avalanches on all aspect ranging from sz1 up to size 2.5, one notably large slide on a planar slope which could possibly have stretched to sz3 but the full path and runout was obscured. Most slides were slabs failing on what looked like that 20 -30cm down layer from thin points in the pack or convexities. A couple slides triggered by cornice failure on south aspects, those cornices were huge before failing thanks to those wind events of the past few weeks.
Blowing snow seen at ridge tops today.
Dug a quick pit @2200 NE in a sheltered part of an alpine bowl.
Hs160cm
20cms fist
5cms of 1f
Mid pack 4f
Lower pack, garbage
Easy results failing on the crust, sudden collapse.
The snow seems Inspiring but definitely very touchy.
06doas,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 7:00PM
Size 1.5 T2.5
See details under incident tab.
Clément Toyack,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 1:00PM
Angus
AMcLeod,
Monday 24th February, 2025 1:00PM
Clam Shell - sz 2.5
Clam Shell went size 2.5+ during the afternoon sun. Observed from ski hill
toddthetoad,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 3:00PM
Panorama Mountain Resort Inbounds
owenpeters87,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 10:26AM
The rotten tooth
Been out and about in dogtooth range these past couple of days, the Skiing is good but the bottom is rotten!
Mostly Ive been skiing south facing slopes between 1700-2400m, the sun has been and was again super strong, luckily the colder temps seemed to have stopped a crust forming, today felt real warm but skiing was still light and dry! The top 20-30cms is fist with the crust beneath seemly mostly supportive to skier traffic. Beneath the crust it’s a consistent degradation from facets down to DH through the lower pack. Braking trail is tough, punching through the crust and often sinking in sugar back the two steps you just gained.
Plenty of natural evidence out of steep rocky north facing terrain, mostly sz1, some possibly stretching to sz2 from the previous cycle before the 4 cents we got yesterday. Two notable slides that hadn’t slid when I was out on Saturday, again from steep north facing terrain.
No major instabilities noted on both days on the aspects we skied. Glad the colds gone and snows on the way!
06doas,
Monday 17th February, 2025 10:00PM
Glide Crack
Noted a large glide crack in the large east facing alpine bowl above branch C. I very rarely venture up to the bowl, so I don’t know if that’s a regular occurrence or not. Also had multiple whumphs just below the ridge crest and on the ridge itself. Ski cuts of steep slopes produced no results other than some surface sloughing.
timjamesmckee,
Monday 17th February, 2025 11:24AM
There’s still avalanches out there
Party of three headed into 12mile for the day. As we were travelling to an alpine saddle we felt a large whumph, cracking around the first skier was observed (5m by 5m). The slope was about 30 degrees. We backed off and skied down.
We opted to ski another slope closer to tree line, in a more sheltered area. No signs of instability were noted as we were gaining the ridge, or along the ridge. The first and second skier descended the slope, skiing great powder top to bottom. The third skier dropped in from a different entry point, kicking off a small (size 1, 30-40 deep) slab near a rocky area. This slab entrained an impressive amount of mass and speed as it moved downhill. The resulting avalanche was a size 2, running 2/3 path. No involvement.
Suspected release on FC layer buried after last storm (Jan 30).
joanna.waterston,
Monday 17th February, 2025 1:30AM
The Repeater (North Slopes)
-We skied lines on the N and NE slopes of The Repeater.
-In the alpine and at treeline, on steep slopes (~40°), we where easily triggering sluffs up to size 1, simply by jumping on our skis.
-Sluffs where gaining speed and bringing down enough mass to make a skier fall.
-Making it tricky in the alpine, where lack of coverage is exposing rocks. And at treeline around trees.
louis.plante,
Sunday 16th February, 2025 4:00PM
Bootleg
Sunny skies and soft snow made for great turns. Temperatures were slightly warmer than recent days, but the snow stayed dry except on steep, due-south slopes. New surface hoar was forming at lower elevations. Average snow depths were around 120 cm. There was 30 cm of soft snow over the January layers, which on south aspects consisted of two crusts with soft facets in between them. Stability tests (ECTX) showed no reactivity, and there were no signs of instability throughout the day.
AVCAN FORECASTER,
Thursday 13th February, 2025 11:00AM
Sunny St Mary's
A cold start to the day at -22 when we left the truck, but it quickly warmed up once we were in the sun. As we were moving up through treeline, we had a whumpf in an open area in the trees on a south aspect. We dug down to investigate and found the January 30th weak layer buried 37 cm deep and comprised of small sugary facets (size 1) and a few surface hoar crystals above a crust. It seems like there isn't enough slab above the weak layer to spread a failure on most slopes.
We saw a few small dry loose avalanches from steep terrain in the alpine. Hard to tell how old they were, maybe 24-48 hours old?
Riding quality was great; it was cold, dry, and fast. Just watch out for areas that have a slab on top.
AVCAN FORECASTER,
Wednesday 12th February, 2025 4:00PM
Meachen Mtn
We travelled between 1390m and 2460m today on a S aspect to stay warm. Some whumpfs down low with shooting cracks that disappeared with elevation gain. HS was 160cm at 2140m with 40cm of storm snow sitting on a sun crust. The snow on surface was low density and was bonding to the sun crust. No visible signs of recent avalanche activity. Wolverine managed to get first drop on us.
drijber,
Wednesday 12th February, 2025 12:05PM
Fireguard
No signs of instability or natural avalanches observed. Great skiing on sugary facets. Found HS of 90-110 with a crust about 25cm down (facets and maybe melt forms? No surface hoar), but we didnt find any slab on top of this. We did produce some small sluffs on steep micro gully features.
neverbenbetter,
Tuesday 11th February, 2025 11:00PM
Redding rainbow
Soft snow all the way to ridgetop on northeast aspects made for really good ski quality. We could find the buried surface hoar and facet layer about 40 cm deep, but no signs of reactivity as there was no slab above (no cracking, hand shears, etc). One whumpf in shallow rocky terrain while gaining the ridge, likely isolated depth hoar. Couldn't see any avalanches from last week's storm.
shorton,
Sunday 9th February, 2025 12:30AM
Soft slabs & cracking
tlaberge,
Monday 3rd February, 2025 11:00AM
Deep and unstable up angus
Plenty of whumping and settling on the way up, we played safe but still managed to trigger a smallish slide.
sgerm2355,
Sunday 2nd February, 2025 12:05PM
Spicy Meatball
Major Storm skiiing right now.
Avoided any steep terrain and or convexities.
Lots of whumphing and unsettled snow on that Jan Hoar/Crust layer. Had a remote size 1 release on a convex roll, we were about 50ft away climbing on an island of tree safety, was approx 40cm on the crust. Did not step down. The skiing was fantastic.
Dead-Head,
Sunday 2nd February, 2025 8:00AM
Reactive slab below treeline
We found conditions touchier than expected, likely due to the fresh snow that also seemed to be more than forecast. We found the storm snow started to consolidate around 1800m, despite no signs of wind effect. The 30-40cm deep slab made trail breaking difficult as it would pop out and slide you down a foot or two with it. We changed to tighter trees with less steep lines as a result, but still had a small feature go while skiing it. It was notable to us, as it was only about 30 degrees and the entire feature slid- the slab propagated several meters across the feature. If this had been a larger opening in this terrain it likely would have pushed the skier into a tree or tree well.
Skiing was more supportive than we expected and very good down to ~1650m. Below that the alders became a challenge.
We returned to this area Sunday and found similar conditions. The slab seemed a little less reactive but we did still have a few small rolls pop and lots of stuffing. Sun made Sunday seem warmer than Saturday.
j.mort,
Saturday 1st February, 2025 7:00AM
Dry January is over!
Was suprised to find more new snow than expected (20+) sitting on top of the facets and surface hoar. Decent inversion seemed to be causing the new snow to be more of cohesive slab at the top of our runs. Large shooting cracks and settlements were observed. We stayed on mellow slopes and had a great day.
B1gDumpL0v,
Friday 31st January, 2025 11:00PM
Putting the tour in ski tour
Travel at and above tree line is becoming difficult due to the lack of new snow. Faceted surface snow over crusts making for slippery skin tracks and above the tree line, wind pressed snow and sun crusts necessitating the use of ski crampons. Still some good snow to be found below tree line on areas protected from sun and wind. Noted a solar triggered avalanche that appeared to be from that day.
timjamesmckee,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 11:00PM
Finger chutes
wumpfing observed on north aspects but no cracking. Dug our pit on a south aspect.
skiasessippi,
Saturday 25th January, 2025 1:00PM
Matthew Creek
Skiing in Matthew Creek area on Jan 24, we found a mix of faceted pow and wind affected snow. Average height of snow in the area was ~140cm. Wind exposed areas were scoured of new snow from prevailing SW winds. We skied North through East aspects.
npin,
Friday 24th January, 2025 11:00AM
Blowin’ in the wind
Headed up in Holt Creek zone. As soon as we left the trees found high wind and significant snow transport with slabs forming even in the bowl. Recent size 1.5 on an east aspect was seen in an obviously windloaded zone below cliffs. As we started to work up higher we encountered shooting cracks and hollow areas. With active loading abandoned plan of higher/steeper terrain and skied low angle.
lmackenzie87,
Tuesday 21st January, 2025 12:00PM
S Purcells
Observed evidence of a natural cycle from earlier this week (Wednesday/Thursday). Mostly wet loose from steep, rocky terrain on South aspects. One size 2 from a SE facing path stopped in track - did not observe the start zone to see if this was a slab.
Around 10-15cm of new snow overlies a crust on sunny aspects, or firm, wind pressed snow in the Alpine. Soft snow is best preserved at TL, but we did find evidence of the Jan 8 surface hoar in a test profile at 2360m - see snowpack tab.
Mostly dust on crust/firm conditions but still a few soft turns to be had!
npin,
Saturday 18th January, 2025 3:00PM