Quesnel
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche 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 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 2nd, 2025That's a Wrap
<p>We had a fun day sledding by Barkerville. With low hazard and a soft but consolidated snowpack we were able range far and wide.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Friday 21st April, 2023 6:00PM
The Curse of Capping Crust
northrockiesfieldteam,
Tuesday 11th April, 2023 5:10PM
Two Sisters
<p>Noticed cracks in our skin line. No whumpfing. Signs of warming. Tree bombs and rollers. Sun warmed the peaks quickly was cautious of Cornice breaks. Great day</p>
Twebb,
Thursday 6th April, 2023 7:10AM
Yanks
<p>Nice day to check out the Yanks Peak area. A good amount of tracks around bur still fairly easy to find some soft snow. We had broken skies with intermittent graupel. No wind and cooler than previous days. No signs of avalanche activity. Trails are well groomed from the Barkerville side.</p>
mconlan,
Friday 24th March, 2023 3:50PM
sunshine
<p>Cold snow underneath recently warmed wet snow. Observed one size 3.5 loose wet slide on a SE facing slope around 3pm, ran almost to valley.</p>
darthekai,
Monday 20th March, 2023 12:20PM
Why The Red Face?
<p>The March sun felt great out in the mountains around Barkerville today. Along with the sun’s the warmth is an increasing affect on the snowpack this time of year. We checked out cornices and steep, solar aspects to see how they are taking the heat. Today stayed cool enough that we saw only loose dry avalanches from steep rocky terrain. Light winds haven’t been enough to redistribute the latest 10cm of snow into slabs so we enjoyed moving around under bowls, below start zones and in a variety of terrain.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Tuesday 14th March, 2023 5:10PM
Twin peaks area, Mica
stephanie4555,
Monday 13th March, 2023 7:30PM
Groundhog POW
<p>Had a great day teaching and AST 1 course. Saw multiple size 1 loose snow avalanches. Spotted 4 storm slab avalanches size 1.5-2 near ridge tops or below rock bands. But in trees and low angle meadows the snow was blower pow. </p>
nitro,
Sunday 26th February, 2023 10:10PM
Mica Mtn
greg.rector757,
Tuesday 21st February, 2023 8:30PM
Weathervane
<p>Today we found a Barkerville powder day. A north wind was blowing, moving the new storm snow onto south facing slopes. This was building reactive wind slabs on the opposite side of where cornices have formed. We moved away from the wind and windslabs by dropping down in elevation to sheltered open trees. There, the powder was deep and the recent storm snow seemed to be bonding well. We could see that there had been an avalanche cycle during the storm but didn't see anything new today.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Tuesday 21st February, 2023 6:20PM
Flour Mills
greg.rector757,
Saturday 11th February, 2023 8:10PM
Murray cabin
<p>Quick trip up to Murray cabin, staying mostly on the trail and out of avalanche terrain. 35-40 cm of light, fluffy storm snow in the area that became more dense by midday. Winds picked up while we were out and began knocking snow off trees. We didn't observe any slab avalanches but never really had good views of steeper avy terrain.
Birds were happy and it felt like Spring out there!</p>
esarhawkins,
Saturday 4th February, 2023 3:20PM
It Snowed
<p>
Today we went riding at Groundhog near Barkerville. We didn't see any new avalanches despite the 30 cm of new snow. If the temperature rises and or the wind increases this light, cold snow will form a more cohesive slab that will most likely initiate a widespread avalanche cycle. Until then, we will enjoy the faceshots!
</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Tuesday 31st January, 2023 3:50PM
Short Steep and Sweet
<p>We went skiing by Wells at Two Sisters today and found a supportive surface with some pow on top. The last few weeks we have been observing the persistent weak layer from December and that has us avoiding thin to thick transitions in the snowpack. So we are cautious near ridge crests and alpine slopes but in the trees where the snow height is uniform we are stepping out carefully. That step out had us enjoying skiing in steep open trees today.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Thursday 12th January, 2023 6:00PM
Stuck on the Sidelines
<p>Today we did a Proserpine to Ground Hog loop. We are still getting sudden results on the persistent weak layer from December. We only found this layer noticable when we dug down or trenched our sleds.
So we're sticking to low consequence terrain that's not attached to big slopes or terrain traps. The dusting of new snow has not covered up last weekends sled tracks.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Tuesday 10th January, 2023 6:10PM
Super Bowl
<p>On site for AST course</p>
Drew,
Monday 9th January, 2023 11:40AM
The fruity loop
<p>Did a super dumb loop, at least it was good exercise! No observed avys but big scary settlement crossing an open slope. Stuck to sub 30 slopes the rest of the day. Did not ski treeline openings as planned. Pit revealed ctm/e (first elbow on one go and last wrist on the next) quite deep on some rounded facets. </p>
darthekai,
Monday 2nd January, 2023 9:10PM
Mica Mountain, Fire Lake
<p>Snow for most of the morning, around 2pm light freezing rain started. Overcast all day with alpine socked in very low visibility.
140 cm snow pack
20 Degree slope \ Temp -5
East Aspect \ Elevation 1814m
CTE 1 15cm
CTE 4 35cm
CTM 1 45cm
CTM 7 60cm
CTH No result
While digging our pit we noticed with the fresh now over the lat week the top layer is very unstable down to about 60 cm. The snow under that has really solidified and would not budge.
</p>
samuelbergmann,
Sunday 1st January, 2023 3:00PM
Ground Hog day
<p>We went to Barkerville, Ground Hog Lake, to assess how last weekend's snowfall was bonding to the old surface. Since the newer, denser snow fell onto loose unconsolidated snow, the storm slab is lurking longer than usual. Which means the riding looked and felt really decent but the storm slab was reacting in our snowpack tests and there was real potential for triggering avalanches. So for now we are staying away from and off the 30deg or more slopes while we wait for this storm slab to settle.</p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Wednesday 28th December, 2022 5:20PM
Groundhog
pgdrz400,
Tuesday 27th December, 2022 7:20PM
MIca Mtn
greg.rector757,
Saturday 24th December, 2022 8:00PM
Chilly trip just to see
<p>Booger freezing day. Was by myself so stayed out of avalanche terrain. Cth 40cm down on a transition to facets, no significant crust at this depth, facets more or less continued to ground at 90cm. Sun crust 20cm down on sunny slopes made some snow slide around a little but nothing was cohesive. Did an ect as well and no prop. </p>
darthekai,
Sunday 18th December, 2022 8:10PM
Yanks peak
<p>Day old slab avalanche on the weak layer from November </p>
freerideordie,
Saturday 17th December, 2022 8:50PM
Two Sisters
<p>Total snow depth at 1950m was 85cm. Density was fist top 20cm then 4 finger for remaining 65cm to ground. Crust layer was felt about 15-20cm down on approach from 1200m elevation to ~1700m. Small surface hoar ~2-3mm crystals noted in sheltered location at pit site.
Fantastic sunny Sunday skiing!!</p>
titleyr,
Monday 5th December, 2022 3:40PM
Windy ‘Round the Top
<p>While there is still bony patches, the snow is starting to pile up at Round Top. With enough snow to ride comes enough snow to slide. Recent winds from the northeast had stripped back the usual spots for wind deposits and cornices, leaving fresh and reactive slabs on westerly slopes. The Nov21 layer of facets (loose, sugary crystals) is down 30-50cm in this area. We are keeping a close eye on this persistent layer as it will be slow to heal. Poor visibility kept us from exploring the alpine but we found the best riding was in sheltered tree line areas on west slopes away from the effects of the wind. </p>
northrockiesfieldteam,
Wednesday 30th November, 2022 5:15PM
Condition check 🤘
<p>25cm of new Storm Snow by departures @ 1500 hrs, winds Light SW. Great skiing, stuck to low angle open terrain and treed terrain. 65cm HS @ 1740m; so still very tricky skiing in some areas at low elevation. </p>
Trigger,
Monday 28th November, 2022 9:31AM
Mica Mtn
greg.rector757,
Monday 28th November, 2022 9:31AM
Jubilee Bowl
<p>Fairly reactive pit at 1770m. Failure at 20cm light taps (6), popped at 45cm with heavy hits (7). Some non-propagating cracks noted in storm snow at kick turns. No drumming or whumpfing noted. Stuck to mellower slopes in trees areas. Great first turns of the season!!</p>
titleyr,
Monday 28th November, 2022 9:30AM
Mica Mountsin
greg.rector757,
Monday 21st November, 2022 9:30AM