Sea To Sky
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
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
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
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
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
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
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
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
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
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Circle Lake sz 2 Blackcomb
Carlene Van Alphen,
Friday 14th March, 2025 5:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
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
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Gnarnia
Another great day in Gnarnia via tracked quad to end of Beta Lake Road (E100). Current road conditions at bottom of post.
Snow: At the end of E100, there is a 1-2” breakable crust with dense, supportive powder underneath. Boot penetration to the knees, but ski penetration 6” or so while skinning. Not bad! The ridge top is wind scoured. We rode Gnarnia trees (N aspect), which was decent powder skiing. Heavier than the February jackpot, but still light enough for fun to be had— no crust! I could penetrate to about 50-60cm with my ski pole. Weather was a mixed bag, but overall felt fairly warm. Sun, cloud, sleet, and light snow through the course of the day. No pit, sorry!
We observed the remains of some natural avalanche action on N and W alpine slopes (see pics) including what looked to be cornice-triggered slides on W Face Little Knuckle and on the slopes below the N Face of Little Knuckle. The latter is a bit of conjecture— large debris were visible at around 1200m below the corniced ridge of the N Face of Little Knuckle. The actual slope that may have slid isn’t visible from Gnarnia… so 🤷♂️. We did not feel or see any signs of instability on the slopes we rode in Gnarnia.
Roads: Clear to the start of E100. Patchy to the second washout under the waterfalls… which has a small new wash out! A few rocks had to be moved, but it is passable by quad. Further up on E100 pallet snow bridges are holding up well with 4-6ft snow walls on the exposed creeks.
kanowak,
Thursday 13th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
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Published: Mar 9th, 2025Deep and wet
We skied south west facing trees up to 1600m with 50cm ski pen and amazing skiing. Heavy powder below 1400m. Heard 3 big avalanches in the direction of Chocolate Bowl. Breaking trail was chest deep in some open locations. We did not observe any significant shooting cracks or whumfing.
lp08,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 1:00PM
Singing Pass/Cowboy Ridge
oscar,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:15AM
Size 2.5-3 , surface hoar suspect
Sunday march 9th, North east aspect between 1800-1400 meters . Pictures are of a slide while snowboarding. On the way Snowmobiling up millers ridge we remote trigger a couple slides while on the FSR. We already got our sign that surface hoar was kicking around. We had ridden in a sheltered area beside this cliff/pillow feature for two laps . On our third lap we moved 5ft closer to where the crown was and it remote triggered a slide of all the storm snow approx. 80-100cms. The slide ran out about 400-500 ft (red line) all the way past the opening back into treeline. Would classify it as a size 2.5-3 as it would have likely come close to burying a small car. I would treat most slope you ride in the future to be suspicious of having surface hoar .
philip469,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 10:00AM
Type 2 Fun Skiing
Dense snow. Wet cement below 1000m
scott.shaw-maclaren,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 10:00AM
Stormy Saturday on Paul Ridge
Probably irrelevant info based on the crescendo of the storm on Saturday night but conditions were vastly different as the day progressed. Just dumping like crazy. We did one run on the south side and in the trees the new snow was only about 15cm and the crust was there on every turn unless you were out in the open. Skinning back up was arduous and we even ended up boot packing as sidehilling was not an option.
We then jumped over to the north side but chose some very conservative lines. Ski cuts on convex roles had the top 6 inches sliding slabby style but not propagating much. Knee deep at that point. Amazing how fast things changed. The very next run had the top 12 inches sluffing but not propagating.
Kept it mellow and fun.
fattboyes,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 8th, 2025Singing Pass - Harmony Creek Slide
Skiing down singing pass on way back from kees & claire to Whistler. Saw a group skinning up to the hut about an hour before and this slide had covered the path entirely. Soo incidents, but interesting to see a slide on a supposedly safe route home.
pgregory124,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 4:00PM
Rainbow Mountain
No wind below treeline up to 1500masl. Only non-affected heavy powder, got very wet further down, but snow all the way to the road at 680masl all day. Didn’t encounter any wind slab problematics in the snow. Only big amounts of snow.
johannes.sand.bolstad,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 2:00PM
Hanging Lake
We skied a couple of laps near Hanging Lake. The first lap we skied unconsolidated powder but we were on the crust underneath. The only instability was heavy sluffing.
A couple of hours later, temperatures had warmed slightly with continued heavy snow and created a cakey soft slab on the crust, estimated 40cm deep.
I set off a size 1 on a small convex roll, as well as observed some small (2m) shooting cracks.
colin.n,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 7th, 2025Not a good set up for the next storm
Low angle and sheltered terrain direct polar holding lower density snow widespread surface hoar and generally better skiing. This snow sits above a crust with some surface hoar observed on the curst. This combination is producing easy ski cuts in steep roles. Right now the slab is really soft and non - consequential due to low accumulation and little slab properties. Propagation of the slabs were limited to the feature and not propagating far. A size 1 ski accidental saw in distance and assume was on the same layer. Down 70cm of well settled snow the February weka layer also exists in TL producing hard CT SP results on 4mm rounding surface hoar.
Not a good set up for the next storm.
Kirill Kokorin,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 5:00PM
Generally wind affected with some good skiing in sheltered terrain
Kirill Kokorin,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 5:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 6th, 2025Owls Area
Great skiing in the Alpine. Not so great below. 5-15cm on a chalky crust.
SkiVM,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 1:00PM
Cowboy ridge
Skied the cowboy area
Dug multiple hand pits down to 50 cm deep
3 cm crust sitting on top of facets easily sheared
Crust is thick and widespread enough to bridge skiers weight. Facets below the crust are still prominent and widespread.
5 cm to 10 cm of new snow on top of crust, mixture of grapple, low density, and surface hoar. New snow on top of crust is not bonding well at all.
Cowboy ridge temps were hovering around + 2 C. The PWL was in the forefront of my mind today - definitely avoiding areas that thin out and do not have the thick crust to bridge. Still heads up hockey out there.
New snow skied lovely
coltowalker,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
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damien,
Tuesday 4th March, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 2nd, 2025Spring Slush
Very crusty at Red Heather & up to Paul’s Ridge. Major pinwheeling visible (some larger than ~20cm diameter, forgot to take a photo.) Light wet-loose sluffing from riding on low angle open westerly slopes. Shooting cracks when off skin track. Thick melt-freeze crust.
Dug very hasty pit on NW aspect at 1408 elevation, around ~25 degrees slope. Found PWL 40cm down, moderate CT.
skiderp099,
Sunday 2nd March, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Mar 1st, 2025Whirlwind
Most slopes where crusty/wind affected appart from a couple of southernly slopes which were corn/wetter snow. No signs of instability or remote triggering form today in the area
henry.walker,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 12:00AM
North faces are down
Scenic trip to panorama ridge.
The following faces avalanched on the PWL:
- castle tower NF
- Helm peak NW
- Neve north slope to lake (picture)
- multiple on Polemonium NW
Overall beautiful day with good spring skiing. Lake seems frozen, witnessed a party of 3 crossing it.
SWcrust,
Saturday 1st March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Feb 28th, 2025Cypress obs
Large slide (2-3) back of lions, south facing slope. Cypress backcountry was wet, smooooooy and sunny.
abbydell,
Friday 28th February, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Feb 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Feb 26th, 2025Husume - storm slab
We were a group of 3 riders, 1 rider exited husume skiiers left on the fan and triggered a storm slab size 1.5 about 15cm deep. 2 riders exited the more mellow skiiers right with no avalanches triggered.
benbloom88,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Feb 25th, 2025DOA - storm slab
Size 2.5 on the apron coming out of DOA from today. Storm slab prevalent on N/NE slopes in the alpine. No PWL avalanches observed.
benbloom88,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 1:00PM
Pemberton
N facing slope 1700 m.
Ski cut this smaller steeper slope. Propagated on depth hosr 40cm - 80 cm maybe more in some wind loaded pockets.
brandondavisj,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 11:00AM
Natural size 2 above Russet Lake
fedsmachine,
Monday 24th February, 2025 9:01AM
Saturated
Rode between 1500-1850m
Freezing level~1700
-Variable conditions: deep wet windloaded, windward 4cm crust, the sun affected surfaces above 1650m began firming up later in the afternoon as the clouds rolled in
-Pinwheels observed below 1600m on sun facing slopes
-size 1 naturals observed below 1800m on SE/S/SW slopes
No data on north facing or leeward slopes
harkmamilton17,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 12:00PM
Natural slides across from Spanky's
Lots of natural slides in the Blackcomb Backcountry. Some ran to the valley bottom across from Spanky's Ladder. Poop chutes? We stayed in the resort.
zachwass2000,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 12:00PM
S-X winds loading Alp lee
JGormick,
Friday 21st February, 2025 2:00PM