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, 2025