Sea To Sky
Spring @ Red Heather
consistent snow for skinning & skiing starts at 1150m on the road to Red Heather.
HS 185cm at 1400m on flat ground near the warming hut.
davidphillipschwartz,
Tuesday 6th May, 2025 12:55PM
Mount Callaghan
Alpine approach conditions: Drove to ~900m on S900, west facing FSR up Squam Valley, but was just a few patches of snow between that and when the road ended ~ 1050m. Forest above that was mostly 30/70 snow/dirt but a nice overnight freeze made for quick travel booting. Snow on the down was skiable to ~ 1200m in the forest, but on the way up due to the deadfall/steep icy slopes we boot packed to about 1350 before starting skinning. Travel above that was fast, glaciers were well filled and the Callaghan summit block was an easy scramble. The spring ski down was great!
AAnd,
Sunday 4th May, 2025 11:00AM
No overnight freeze and everything was loose
No overnight freeze Thursday night so even over 2000m, things were ready to move. Slow, but heavy. Even gentler slopes were happy to shed the top few centimetres
If you waited to led those slide out, the snow below skied decently, actually
tarfeef101,
Friday 2nd May, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Columnar Fresh Wet Loose Observed
We skiied the East face of Columnar around 16:00. On our way up we observed some size 0.5 sluffs/cornice failure (we didnt see the initiation but observed the actual slide). We skiied around some old avalanche debris going down the East face of Columnar. When we reached the previously observed sluffs/cornice failires, we saw 1 or 2 more size 2 wet loose slides. We suspect these were skiier triggered by another party. We had to ski/traverse a little lower as a result. The snow on the return journey was very wet and heavy and travel on flatter sections was hard.
b.baynov,
Saturday 26th April, 2025 2:30PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Wedge Currie traverse conditions
We traversed the Wedge->Currie over Easter.
- Drove the IPP road on Wedge end to 850m, probably goes a but higher now. Skis from the car.
- Good supportive snow to the Wedgemount hut.
- Probed to 2.5 - 3m on the Weart Glacier.
- North faces had variable snow with breakable crust, south aspects was wet
- Ridges are great for travelling on skis right now. Steep south aspects had avalanched big in the warm weather. Generally good spring diurnal cycle.
- Received some 5-10cm of snow on the Sunday
- Currie can be skinned to the summit
- Exit is tricky route finding but goes on skis till 1200 m depending on your tolerance for bad skiing.
- Trail to the lower 2WD parking lot is in decent shape, but consider running shoes.
albertocsanz,
Monday 21st April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Huge concrete fan
Searched for corn, found disappointment. Most of the day was hard pack or a very thick crust. Best riding was found during the ski out at lower elevations.
iancurrie08,
Saturday 19th April, 2025 11:55AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Spearhead wet loose
Our observations agreed with the considerable forecast yesterday 4/18. We saw a lot of rollerball activity, multiple collapsed cornices, quite a bit of slides. Corn was lovely where not affected by avalanche debris. We were happy we made conservative decisions, even adding a bit of mileage/vert to avoid spending time beneath cornices. Cornices and steep slopes were heavily sun affected, SW slopes had lots of sloughing.
Also worth noting we didn’t see any open crevasses, a very small bergschrund we skied over, likely to change as warming continues
jessicaelizabethmckenzie,
Friday 18th April, 2025 12:00PM
Garibaldi summit
Parked at 1000m on the cheekeye fsr, was Subaru friendly. Hard overnight freeze meant fast travel but was very solid until the main Garibaldi face which catches some morning sun so warmed up. Summit just after 11 which seemed a nice time to get on top for a good ski down as things softened. Large cornice fall off hogs back ridge (?) which triggered a large slab avalanche over 1.5m deep, size 2.5. Everyone was skiing over the debris quickly as there's still a lot of overhead there, unsure of when it fell but must be the last day or two
AAnd,
Friday 18th April, 2025 12:00PM
Cornice Collapse in Cloudburst
Chance Creek FSR is plowed to Cloudburst Main FSR.
skins on at car, but not for much longer.
Noticed a natural cornice collapse on the N face of Cloudburst.
~150cm crown line on the slab below the cornice
18-25m crown width
~200m total run
gilbert.pjb,
Friday 18th April, 2025 11:54AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Sunday Sun and Safe
Very sunny, very warm!
We stayed away from big cornices and rode north facing slopes. Although we saw NO signs of instability. No avalanches, no cornices breaking off - only a fallen cornice from several days ago.
kimberleymegis,
Sunday 13th April, 2025 10:00AM
East ridge Ipsoot
Overnight trip towards Ipsoot along the east ridge.
Not much avalanche activity observed.
We found corn, some mashed potatoes and wind affected snow.
We turned back at a col towards a north facing slope that dropped down onto Ipsoot glacier, because we noticed a wind slab on a 25 to 30 degree convex slope and we're not eager to climb this slope back up later.
Overall it was a cold day and night with mostly clear skies.
LuJo,
Sunday 13th April, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Garibaldi neve conditions
Did Neve-in-a-day on April 5th in prime conditions. Sunny and just above 0C till the afternoon, when clouds rolled in. Lots of groups out enjoying the conditions. Access from Red Heather was on skis from the car, but snow is rapidly melting. All paths off of the Gargoyles have gone big already. Ring Creek crossing in good shape, with lots of snow - feels like we are back to normal levels? Up on the glacier coverage was great, snow was heavy on the south sides but creamy on the North aspects. A few parties summiting/skiing Garibaldi made it look really great with powder snow up high. Lake is well frozen and exit is reasonable - booting down to the cars from 5km mark. Barrier is out.
albertocsanz,
Saturday 5th April, 2025 10:00AM
Musical Bumps to backside of Oboe
Skied Musical Bumps to backside of Oboe. Snow warmed considerably throughout the day, resulting in pleasant slushy spring skiing.
We saw what appeared to be a glide crack forming south of Cowboy Ridge (see photo 1).
pocopirates4,
Saturday 5th April, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Macbeth & Curtain
We skied the Curtain Glacier, with good snow conditions. In the alpine on northerly aspects there's ~15cm of fresh snow, mostly sitting on a supportive crust, though you can't really feel the crust while skiing.
There's a couple of very obvious sags in the glacier to be aware of.
Below treeline (at the bottom of the run) the snow was soft and still skied well.
The route through the trees to Russet drainage wasn't as bushwacky as feared.
colin.n,
Thursday 3rd April, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Crusty riding in Callaghan
Very crusty conditions on Journeyman Peak and below. But with the warming of the temps, through the day the riding was actually really fun!
alenka.mali11,
Tuesday 1st April, 2025 12:00AM
Crusty riding in Callaghan
Very crusty conditions on Journeyman Peak and below. But with the warming of the temps, through the day the riding was actually really fun!
alenka.mali11,
Tuesday 1st April, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Oboe size 1.5
melissaristo,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 2:00PM
Tremor
colin.n,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 1:00PM
Observations of Natural Avalanche Cycle
Excellent turns on spearhead glacier with 15cm of dry snow on top of a supportive crust. Continued laps down the glacier towards the lake on N aspects with good skiing but increasing wind affect. From spearhead shoulder we could see the Trorey E face and N face slides. Could not get good pics from our distance.
We continued to Phalanx N bowl. The entire lower pitch slid in the last cycle with >1m crowns connecting across the bowl. There were large cornice chunks scattered throughout the eastern portion of the start zone. Notably, strong E winds reloaded the start zone with fresh windslab in places. The deep crowns continued pretty much on every N avalanche slope above the exit bench (1800-2000m), and we observed some massive debris flows on our way out.
N aspects above 1800m had a ~5cm supportive crust below recent storm snow. The snow beneath this crust remained quite moist from the warm up. W aspects on our exit were spring slush (no crust).
adamrodrigues11,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 12:00PM
Ipsoot Mountain
Ipsoot Mountain from Miller Creek, over 2 days. Access from relatively straightforward with east travel through old growth. Evidence older size 2-3 slides were observed on the approach. Likely came down with the rain storms last week. Signficantly larger slides observed on S aspects with smaller only lower elevation slides on N aspects. Good coverage on the glacier, with some very large icefalls near the toe. Crevasses appeared to be filled in enough to avoid roping up. Completed over 2 days
nevison.alex,
Sunday 30th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Vista Bowl Warming
Skied conservative terrain from the top of Spearhead glacier, descending skiers right before climbing up climbers left to the Vista Bowl entrance. Great turns on mellow slopes descending Vista Bowl, warm temps turned the snow soft and we avoid recent debris and overhead hazards. Numerous instabilities visible east towards Mount Charlie Chandle on steeper slopes and convexities.
Stefanf,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 1:00PM
Slab avalanche
alenka.mali11,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 12:00AM
Wet and heavy
Observed about 25cm of new wet snow (fist density) sitting on top of rain soaked snow beneath. HS was over 3m, t10 was 0.
Skied OK, was slightly drier around 1600m and transitioned to noticeably heavier around 1300.
saxon.g,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 12:00AM
Callaghan Lake
Slush at lake, we opted to contour around the shore.
Snow is wet and one can see blue slush when poking the pole into the snow for about 1m. A layer of fresh snow of 10cm at 1550m is very heavy powder.
We did not observe any instability. There is some debris under some collapsed pillows.
LuJo,
Saturday 29th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Pemberton Icecap
High thin broken clouds for most of the day. Early morning had a thin melt freeze crust in alpine but was gone by 10AM and was wet snow from then on. Wide spread all aspects activity during the last storm cycle. Didn't see any activity today. Foot pen was ankle to mid calf. Temps must have gotten close to 10C. Snow was OK for sledding but would have been terrible skiing. Nobody else up the Icecap today.
baofengcanada,
Wednesday 26th March, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wet Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Bottomless slush
Dug a pit above journeyman. Lots of well consolidated storm snow. Failed 60cm down on 14th hit. Well bonded below
evancarey,
Monday 24th March, 2025 1:30AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Deep pow
Multiple size 1 wind slabs. Remote triggered in one case. 20 meters wide, 10 meters long, 5 to 20 metre runs. 10 cm crowns. Released on convex rolls.
michael.fletcher.gill,
Sunday 23rd March, 2025 2:00PM
Storm slab Calle Trees
Numerous 30cm size 1-1.5 storm slabs triggered on calle trees on the way out from gin today.
benbloom88,
Sunday 23rd March, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Oboe
Size 2-3 avalanche seen on hike out, looked to be skier triggered based on lines either side. On the most exposed face of oboe otherwise amaze riding
talmilman,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 4:00PM
Good storm skiing
Great day overall. N aspects skiied great, while S aspects skiied well but with evidence of previous solar effect. Stayed away from steep slopes.
saxon.g,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 12:00PM
Elfin Weekend
Looking through binoculars we noticed that there were storm snow avalanches in steep open terrain.
We did an extended column test and the snow seemed very consolidated. When we sheared the column it snapped at 140cm likely in the March layer
krenzlercassie,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 12:00PM
Heckin Pow
Location: Flute Summit to Oboe Creek, Oboe Summit to Singing Pass via the Apostles.
INCREDIBLE day, with approximately 25-30 cm of new, low-density snow across most aspects. Snow stability felt generally good on our route from Oboe down to Singing Pass, with minimal signs of instability in most areas.
-Some isolated shooting cracks and a hollow feeling were observed on N-NW ridgetop features, particularly in wind-loaded areas near ridgelines.
-Avalanche Activity: Observed an older size 1-1.5 avalanche on a NNW aspect of Oboe Face, with the start zone located around 1850m elevation. The slide appeared to have occurred earlier in the day, if not in days prior (potentially on Friday, March 21st).
-Moderate warming during periods of sun around 12-1300hrs, mostly on SSE aspects at ridgeline. Snow was visibly heavier, some (very small) pinwheels starting.
skiderp099,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 10:00AM
Pump Peak
Fun conditions in heavyish powder. No major signs of instability observed. Got very warm when the sun poked out, observed a couple of small wet loose slides.
callumwilkie98,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 10:00AM
Red Heather Hut/Round Mountain
Skied North face of Round Mountain and trees down to Red Heather Hut. Snow was deep and quite heavy, with noticeable warming throughout the day. Everything felt very stable, no signs of avalanches or instability.
pocopirates4,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 9:00AM
Saturday’s Deep Turns
Surface hoar spotted at 10:20 this morning - not later in the day.
No signs of instability where we skied.
One small avalanche on Oboe peak, from yesterday?
Deep light powder, beautiful day
kimberleymegis,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 9:00AM
Powderama Ridge
Long day trip to Panorama Ridge.
The day started off with blue sky and light and dry powder. The effect of the sun on the snow could be felt instantly. Throughout the day clouds dominated, but the sun got moments to peak out.
Snow on the ridges was wind affected and formed wind slabs. Wind features could be seen on the western slope of the panorama ridge.
Cornices are big all along the northern ridge line of Panorama ridge with some debris deposits below.
Skin penetration was variable almost zero on ridge tops and up to 20cm in the meadows - we broke trail starting from Taylor meadows.
No avalanches seen.
Hasty pits on the ridge produced easy shear at variable depth of 30 to 50cm likely due to a melt freeze crust. We decided to ski a more mellow section due to this observation.
We observed pinwheeling at the entrance to the barrier as the sun was peaking out in the late afternoon. Therefore we skied on the trail. Snow was heavy but plenty, allowing us to ski between the trees between switchbacks. Generally snowpack appears higher compared to recent years.
Snow bridges over creeks are thin- we ran into a hiker who broke through.
LuJo,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Oboe snow conditions
Skied multiple laps down Oboe and surrounding areas today. No signs of instability. Skiing was really good. Skied down apostles and singing pass. All good. Tons of snow on singing pass.
apwebb,
Friday 21st March, 2025 2:00PM
Brohm was bomb
Quick rip up to Brohm ridge before heading back to VI. Access was straight forward from the 5 km mark, shout out to BTSC for the stellar grooming.
Up at the cabin it’s DEEP off trail. We headed up towards the ridge but opted not to go any further due to low visibility and high danger.
Early March crust was down a meter and we had no results in a quick test pit. Wind was moderate from the south and lots of snow was moving around. Tonnes of fun to be had in the meadows, we wish we could have stayed longer!
AvCan Vancouver Island,
Friday 21st March, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm 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 18th, 2025Wind Slab
Wind slabs and soft slabs prevalent near ridge lines and convex rolls on easterly slopes and easily triggered. Manageable but large enough to catch you off guard if not paying attention.
tylercmorton,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Poop chutes Mar 17
Triggered a size 1-1.5 ski cutting poop chutes coming back in from phalanx. Roughly 10cm crown (looked cross loaded).
dsikorsk,
Monday 17th March, 2025 2:30PM
Chocolate Bowl
We tried to ski but had no good visibility in Chocolate Bowl from 1pm onwards. Skiing would have been amazing if we could see.
We dug pit on a 20 degree Southwest facing slope at 1800m with CTH2 resistant planar fracture down 110cm on rain crust.
ECTX. On a light pull of column there was a resistant planner fracture down 110 cm on rain crust. The upper snowpack appeared well consolidated. HS was more than 240cm.
lp08,
Monday 17th March, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Metal Dome Glacier
No signs of instability despite recent loading. Great skiing
ant6d,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 12:00PM
Gin Peak
Gin Peak Ski tour. Multiple small avalanches observed. Evidence of wind loading (cornices, textured snow).
Ride and travel conditions were great. Snow was heavier on sunny slopes.
Light ridgetop wind. Occasional moments of sunshine and moderate to heavy snowfall after 2pm.
alain.zhiyanov,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 9:00AM
Knucks
New snow seemed well bonded( ing) to Jan crust.
A.D.,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Circle Lake sz 2 Blackcomb
Carlene Van Alphen,
Friday 14th March, 2025 5:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Spinal Tap Main and Couloir
Saw slide debris from East Col and descended to meet a party of 3 next to debris. Proceeded to initiate a beacon search as debris appeared fresh. Found no signals.
Took photos. Size estimated at size 3.5 (reasoning below). All measurements here are estimates. Two start zones with two merging slide paths, meeting at midpoint and again 150m before Circle Lake.
The highest elevation slide, at 20m underneath Spinal Tap entrance, approx. 100m across at the convexity, slid looker's right to the Spinal Tap couloir, curving across skier's left descent from East Col, before meeting the lower slide path at Circle Lake.
The lower slide: looker's left and 30m below the higher slide, also some ~100m across, slid and released the entire rocky face, extending significantly to looker's left. Using binoculars, crowns estimated at 1.5m on both slides. Debris piles measured up to 2.5m. Total width at estimated 400–500m, with length some 45% of Circle Lake, with debris length ranging close or exceeding to 700m+. Debris was piled with hard chunks approaching concrete density. The ice was cracked around Circle Lake with fissures down 3m+ (be careful!).
Of note to travellers: the slide slid across the standard skier's right descent from East Col, and slid directly across and over most of Circle Lake, where many parties transition. It also slid directly across the standard uptrack to Body Bag Bowl. Look up!
After exiting the zone to Body Bag Bowl, I called in to Blackcomb Patrol and was informed the slide had been skier triggered, remote, from a rider standing on the ridge, with no involvement. I also was informed a previous party had reported it in the morning, with estimated time of the slide at 10am. Was informed slide was 2.5 to 3.
Size 3.5. From below the width and length can be appreciated, in part because it is not one, but two start zones produce two merging flows. The two flows appeared to collide with some violence, evidenced by large debris piles and the cracking of the lake ice. The debris pile is deep, wide, piled with hard blocks. The cliffs above have crowns of piled debris and rock has been exposed. The slide in its destructive potential is possibly closer to a 3.5+.
Of note, prior to this incident I observed 4 snowboarders bootpacking up East Col without avalanche kit. I made every effort to discourage them. We have been receiving massive snowfall on suspect layers.. Thankfully, they chose the route out Body Bag Bowl from South Col. I was glad to see them exit safely. I chose to share knowledge of consequence with a party venturing into the backcountry unprepared, and after seeing the slide debris, was glad I did.
Travel safely everyone.
- tcV
quadrantcross,
Friday 14th March, 2025 2:40PM
Slide on Corona Bowl Access
j0hnt3nnant,
Friday 14th March, 2025 2:10PM
Spinal Tap
Kirill Kokorin,
Friday 14th March, 2025 1:00PM
Lots of Avalanche Activity
Kirill Kokorin,
Friday 14th March, 2025 1:00PM
Ladies First Sa sz 1
nicole.koshure,
Friday 14th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche 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 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025