South Coast Inland
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Chief Pascal
Incredibly heavy and wet snow right up to 1600m.
sezshep,
Tuesday 25th March, 2025 10:00AM
Lone Goat Size 2 + Size 1 Av skiers right 3rd shoot
nicolashochereau,
Tuesday 25th March, 2025 8:50AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Wendy Thompson Hut conditions
Skied Saturday thru Monday at the Wendy Thompson hut. On Monday, heard a big avalanche in the distance west of the hut while skiing dense trees at 1875m above the hut. The loud noise lasted 8 or 9 seconds. Due to stormy weather and low visibility, I could not see the slide. Snowing all three days. Encountered wind gusts on open slopes at treeline. Found good fun in the trees. No rain at or above the hut.
carolyn,
Monday 24th March, 2025 12:30PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Zoaaa
Good day skiing off Zoa subpeak. No signs of natural avalanche activity. Stuck to mellow slopes and some steeper pitches in the trees. Significant wind loading occurred throughout the day.
Snow was great early morning and started to become quite heavy as the day warmed up. Trees bombs and snowballing at lower elevations started around noon. 2 degrees at the parking lot around 1:30pm.
j.jonasson,
Sunday 23rd March, 2025 9:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Fun day trip to Claimstake
Surprisingly good conditions allowed for steeper than expected skiing. No visible crowns in the area, and cornices were still attached to the ridges. By the end of the day, most of the approach road was sun affected, but you can still barely ski out to the highway.
Upper slopes were soft and avoided solar effect, skied great. Upper ridge was variable. Mostly soft but some area were wind affected on the w side of the ridge, one scoured spot, a couple firm spots. Nothing whumpfed and no cracks were observed. Hasty pits didn't produce a clean shear
tarfeef101,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 4:00PM
Iago Meadows
T.S.,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 4:00PM
Back side Wendy Thomson hut
Lots of poor decisions were made didn’t realize how loaded the slope was that we were on until we got to the top only way out was to go back down soon as I dropped in it went whompf then saw the slab about 20 m in front of me. lessons were learned
kolthoyle,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 3:10PM
Ignored too many red flags
Second skier down draw triggered size 1-1.5. Storm slab released with 60cm crown 40m wide. A couple small cracks in triangles of kick turns on uptrack. Dry loose was a concern. Signs of cross loading on adjacent slopes but didn’t see any on this one.
nathanbrigden,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 12:00PM
Steep creek
Snow was deep powder and surprisingly well bonded on northern and eastern facing slopes. Storm came in Saturday night and dumped tons of fresh wet snow. Heard a massive avalanche ripping through the alpine Sunday morning from Beeker hut.
cana6506,
Saturday 22nd March, 2025 11:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Still a big problem
As a group of 5 skiers, we approached a large bowl feature at 1800m, NNE aspect, and we positioned ourselves on a 15 degree shoulder, next to a steep roll and above a healthy stand of trees. While we were looking at the feature, the slope settled under our feet and a fracture propagated around the entire bowl. Crown height was between 1 to 1.5m (maybe as high as 2m), and ran full path. The ground beneath us cracked and shifted but thankfully did not have the slope angle to develop momentum. The bed surface didn’t feel safe to approach due to hangfire but we suspect a crust interface below the March 6 crust, potentially Jan 30, due to a visible crust in the middle of the crown.
Drew De Panicis,
Friday 21st March, 2025 2:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Stayed off the Face
We headed to the Hurley to investigate the snowpack around the Face/Birkenhead...
Staging was anywhere between 7 km and 9 km, but proper snow coverage doesn't begin until just after 9 km.
We sledded to 1500m then transitioned to skis. The area got about 10 cm of new snow within the last 24 hours on top of 50ish cm from the weekend.
We dug a profile on a WNW aspect in an open tree area, our result was: ECTN30 down 55 on a storm snow layer. This spot might be quite wind-loaded, in other spots the weak layer might be shallower. Wind was light to moderate with significant snow transport which could cover our tracks within an hour.
We triggered some size 1 wind slab/ storm slab avalanches while ski cutting and observed a natural release size 1 wind slab on the lee side of cliff area.
We enjoyed some nice mellow treeline storm skiing.
AvCan Vancouver Island,
Thursday 20th March, 2025 12:00PM
Skiing around the Wendy Thompson Hut
Good riding quality, but bad visibility in places! Some activity with one incidence of shooting cracks and one small 0.5 slide on a small convex roll. Skiing on North facing slope.
Photo not from exact location of pin.
evieosborn13,
Thursday 20th March, 2025 11:30AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Markor
dzrv,
Wednesday 19th March, 2025 2:35PM
Took a peep at the steep
We went for a walk-up Steep creek today to investigate some impressive avalanche reports our friends over at BC Highways led us on to. The skin track was fast and well set from the highway up to the bottom of the bowl. The intel was spot on, we observed a size 2.5 slab avalanche, reportedly triggered by a skier remotely over the weekend. The debris ran full path to the toe of the opposing ridge, taking out 30-40 year old trees with it.
We climbed to ridge top and observed another remotely triggered large slab avalanche (size 3) in Hunter's bowl. Winds were light from the south and light snow transport was occurring.
We dug two profiles on SSW aspects at 1960 m & 2180 m, two very different stories.
Below Treeline, we had no test results and the snowpack was generally rounded. Snow Depth was 300 cm, great skiing.
Our treeline profile, near the old crown from the size 2.5, produced ECTP15 down 32 cm, failing on facets sitting on a crust. Below this surface layer of concern, the rest of the snowpack was predominantly facets and crust as well. This is likely causing the large avalanches we are seeing.
Skiing was terrific in wind sheltered areas, awesome day at the Duffy!
AvCan Vancouver Island,
Wednesday 19th March, 2025 12:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Cadwallader range Avalanche
lccruzin,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 3:00PM
Wind slab near miss
gnewall4,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 1:00PM
Nak Thak Col
TL: Wind effect, easy hand shear results.
BTL: Incredibly rudimentary snow profile with CTE RP results in upper (wind affected) layers of the snowpack.
alexandrataran,
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Thar Peak Couloir
The plan for the day was to climb Thar Peak from the north couloir, then ski down the other side. Near the entrance of the couloir, we switched from skis to crampons. The snow was quite deep, so we stayed near the rocks on climber's left where we could find some purchase with our ice axes. Progress was very slow though.
After some heavy sluffing started to come down through the couloir above and past us, we aborted the mission and headed back down on skis. Near the bottom, I accidentally triggered a size 1 slab avalanche but it barely slid, probably because it wasn't steep enough.
geripsy,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 4:00PM
Thar - Size 1
A skier triggered a size 1 slide below Nak Mountain. The top 10 cm of snow slide on the crust below. Slide knocked the skier down and stripped his skis and poles. Slide began on a shallow convex role on the skiers first turn down the face.
robbieccalvin,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 1:00PM
Armchair laps
Skied up to 2350m on Armchair. Mixed sun/cloudy periods throughout the day, light winds. Supportive crust underlying approx 15cm HST above 2100m on E aspect, not noticed below. No pits but stomped lots of small convexities with no results. Minimal wind effect, overall surprisingly stable in all areas skied.
jasonlmcewan,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 1:00PM
Easy Hand Shear on Tzsil Gl at 2050m, Large cornices above, signs of big naturals from the last storm
There’s that one steepish spot on the bottom of the Tzsil Gl at about 2050m; things felt a bit weird so we had a check-in. Two of us got a somewhat easy failure with a quick hand shear. Failed on a very clear layer about 15cm down. No shooting cracks. No other signs of instability. Consequences of a small slide in that spot were acceptable so we continued cautiously through the steepest section. I would expect that layer to be present on similar aspects (Sheltered NW) at similar elevations.
In other news: Lots of debris in the valley (in a large area below the small rock band guarding the Tzsil Gl). Possibly related is a large, fresh-looking cornice that’s about the size of a medium sized house high above the Tzsil Gl on the ridge to Slalok.
j0hnt3nnant,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 12:10PM
Supplement to 'took a peak at the steep' by AVCAN Vancouver Island
marechald100,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 12:00PM
Thar
Skied a run off the northwest side of the Thar/Nak col with great boot deep powder. Didn't observe any instabilities but stuck to terrain around 30 degrees. Then skied a lap east of the summit of Thar. Kicked off numerous size 1 wind slabs about 10 cm thick.
dylan.maxwell2,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 9:00AM
Onions
At 2050m on the lee of the ridge
HSS 30cm
HS 275cm
CTM16 down 30cm - shear planar
CTH25 down 85cm - shear planar
CTN down 110cm on a layer of facets - shear planar.
Warming during the day with strong solar radiation. Will add to the 2cm crust on solar aspects from 14th.
dfgault,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 1:00AM
Needle Trees
Went out for some laps in the trees, found the storm slabs releasing on convex rolls. 20cm crowns. Dug some hasty pits and found no reaction on the widespread crust layer.
kamibow,
Sunday 16th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Stormy Zoa
ktjw,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 1:00PM
Good skiing on N aspect, lots of recent naturals
Skied Saturday and Sunday. East facing slope at 1650m skied terribly with a breakable solar crust, skinning up a south facing slope also had a thick crust. Didn’t touch any west facing slopes but would assume the same. North facing slopes at tree line (1950m-1650m) still skiing beautifully with 10-20cm ski pen, “bouncy” powder. Spot the feathered friend we found!
abbi.chapman,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 12:00PM
Needle
Toured up to Needle with the goal of skiing Flatiron. The uptrack in the trees was crusty and slick. Once past the dense trees the snow quality improved and was generally soft with pole pen of 30 cm. Skinning up the ridge, the snow quality deteriorated and was generally windspet closer to Needle.
We dropped in from the Ridge between Needle and Flatiron on a south face. Terrible skiing with less than 5 cm over a very hard crust (Solar?). Below the crust the snow was generally softer, but skiing was not good. Due to low morale we returned back to the car and did not venture towards Flatiron.
Car at parking said -1, but temps generally felt very warm throughout the day.
zakharvenuko,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 9:00AM
Tolkien range observations
Summary of observations from 13-16 March at Brian Waddington hut. Snowpack, avalanche, and weather observations are recorded in the respective tabs.
Photos are from 14 March pit on N slope at 1750m.
Overall we observed enough concerning signals to keep our terrain choices mostly conservative. North slopes seemed to maybe be a bit stabler than South slopes in the zone due to better bonding on the early March melt-freeze crust.
nickawbrown,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 12:00AM
PowderTown
Skiing Ottomite offered excellent powder. Light-Heavy snow all day. 25cm accumulation between 0800-2000 hrs. Wind Light-moderate WSW in the iago meadows this afternoon. Could hear blowing on the Iago Ridgetop. -5 in the morning, with approximately -2 at noon. Weather was in line with the NAM3.5 forecast model. Multiple parties up Iago today reporting great Skiing.
T.S.,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Good skiing on Thar
Skied Thar on Friday. The east run off the summit skied well at midday, but coming any further around to south aspects experienced very wet/heavy sun effect on the slopes. The top 10-15cm was sluffing off as wet slabs, sun impact was quick and strong. The backside bowl/north of Thar skied well and the ski out to Falls Lake was in excellent condition, powder all the way to the bottom.
AAnd,
Friday 14th March, 2025 1:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Zoa Afternoon Powdaaa
Zoa solo mission on the drive home to Vancouver turned out to be some of the best skiing of the season.
I kept it mellow on the North side of Zoa towards the drainage for a couple laps. Observed small wind affect (10cm) on a ENE by the col.
Triggered a size 1.0 just next to my tracks on my 2nd run (NE). It appeared to be the new storm snow (15-20cm crown, 5m across)
liamrobertmackenzie,
Thursday 13th March, 2025 1:30PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Steep Creek Zone
Observed Natural, Size 2 avalanche, North facing, unsupported terrain , crown looked to be around 80-100cms. Suspect it went on March 4/5th MFcr that has SH buried anywhere from 60-100cms deep. Test pit in a similar aspect and elevation - ECTP29 down 72cms, CT M15, down 40.
gmn5029,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 4:00PM
Cypress slidey times
Skinned up hollyburn SW aspect. 5 to 25 cm light-ish fluffy snow on solid bootable crust. Deeper higher up and in wind loaded features.
Fresh snow formed a cohesive slab that was very reactive on the crust. Every feature steep enough to slide was sliding with ski cuts and remote release from shooting cracks.
Size 1-1.5 observed. Not stepping down under the crust.
markusmasaites,
Tuesday 11th March, 2025 10:15AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Ottomite
dzrv,
Monday 10th March, 2025 2:30PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Tenquille Lake
cmartin575,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 3:00PM
Brian Waddington Hut
Spent the weekend at Brian Waddington Hut.
Snowed heavily throughout the weekend. We stayed in low angle trees and could not see activity in the alpine due to poor visibility. Estimate 100cm from Friday night to Sunday mid-day. Was still snowing hard when we skied out.
New storm snow felt reactive on Sunday. Ski cut a storm slab (Sz 1) in a steeper section of the ski out at ~1600m elevation. Ski out was challenging with very wet/heavy snow below 1500m
Dug pit Saturday morning 11am at 1850m, NNE aspect, 29deg slope angle
HS 210cm
15cm new unconsolidated snow on top of melt freeze crust
CT19 sudden planar on old crust 60cm down
ECT30 full propogation on same layer (see picture)
SLocke,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:00AM
Wet and Stormy Iago Ridge
Iago Ridge but not summit and no back bowl.
Road to ottomite was raining on the way up, wet-snow on the way down (5cm by 3pm).
Tricky Trees section to base of Iago Ridge was wet mixed precip on the way up and 10cm wet snow by 3pm.
Iago ridge had 10-15cm wet snow then a small breakable crust, then 5cm under that,, no vis, and strong winds from the East/SE.
No signs of instability.
No cracks/slides/rollers/pinwheels/sloughing,
Some steep side hilling could get top 15cm to slide on crust below when skinning/making a hard stop skiing.
All Gear Drenched.
Fun was had.
wrgb,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 10:00AM
Rohr Lake
GReifel,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 9:00AM
Remote trigger
Remote trigger of size 1 on a convex roll in tree area. No many signs on the skin up but lots of whump on the skin down
laurentgervais18,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 8th, 2025Keith’s hut
We found 25cm of unconsolidated snow by mid afternoon, up to 1800m in sheltered areas with a solid crust underneath. Became heavy and sticky lower down. Wax your skis!
jskis ,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 2:00PM
Flatiron (almost)
justalau2000,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 10:00AM
Iago
2-5 cm of storm snow
Snow was pinwheeling on steeper slopes - turned into small releases in places
raehiti,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 1:00AM
Persistent layer on Joffre Shoulder
Day trip to Joffre Shoulder. Temperature at the parking lot at 8.30am was 1 degree. Snow was heavy, but did not glop to our waxed skins. It was snowing continuously throughout the day. 5cm of fresh snow at the highway.
10- 25 cm of new snow fall at around 1700/ 1800m elevation on a 1cm breakable crust sitting on unconsolidated snow. The new snow was not bonding to the layer below and we slid on it a few times. We did not notice slab formation, but noticed small cracks around the ski, likely from the crust below the powder.
In the transition to the alpine at 1900m wind was blowing in gusts of variing directions such that the falling snow changed directions. Otherwise the day was calm.
We dug a pit at 1935m on a north facing 20 degree slope (see pin) and found the persistent weak layer. While isolating the column it sheared off clean and was sitting approximately 1.2m below the surface.
Snow profile: 10- 15 cm of light powder, that did not bond well at all, 1cm breakable crust, below a lot of very very dense snow (hard to dig through and comes of in big chunks) and below that is the weak layer with unconsolidated snow at approximately 1.2 m below the surface.
While we assessed the likelihood of triggering this weak layer in the low angle terrain as low we turned back and we're glad about our decision to stay in treed and low angle terrain.
Skiing was nice up high, but became more challenging on the way down as we were hitting the crust. The boulder fields have an extremely thin coverage, resulting in lots of holes. We got the best skiing in at the cut block close to the highway. On the logging road the snow started glopping to our skis. It was 2 degrees at the parking lot at 2.40pm.
LuJo,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 7th, 2025Windy Joe Trail
dzrv,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 8:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 6th, 2025Coq
Skied the last 3 days on the Coq.
Snowed 15-20cm night March 4 down to the pass. This fell on 2cm thick MFC that was supportive on all aspects.
Plenty of sun Mar 5/6 made anything but pure N or NE aspects bad skiing with breakable crust. N/NE slopes at higher elevations holding boot top powder.
HS 230cm on a N aspect at 1800m on Needle Peak. Nothing remarkable on hand shears. Significant wet loose avalanches in the storm snow on the south face of Yak. Nothing moving on other aspects.
mike.crickmer,
Thursday 6th March, 2025 12:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Feb 28th, 2025Mount Taylor
Traveled past Joffe lakes to col between Tszil and Taylor. Easy travel, lake felt a bit spooky to be on.
North aspects are hammered by the wind and snow depths were so variable I never probed. Snow pack is still quite shallow.
A hard wind slab on facets failed earlier in the week at the col. No new avalanche activity. Solar aspects look like it might have good corn but I didn't venture there do to large avalanches recently on this aspects and quite warm temps. +1 C at 9 am and +2 on the summit at 230pm @ 2300m.
Bring sunscreen and ski crampons. Low angle solar aspects in the alpine is were you might find enjoyable skiing.
Decent was easy surviver skiing on breakable to almost supportive crust.
Small wet loose hit the trail in the forest.
wardsbd,
Friday 28th February, 2025 2:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet, Wind Slabs.
Published: Feb 27th, 2025Persistent Slabe
Convex role, supporting bench bellow
Remote trigger from sled
80cm crown
Wide propagation
Slid on persistent hoar layer
No one buried or close to slide
russell.beardsley,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 12:00PM
Sketchy Vantage
Observed several recent crowns on Vantage Peak on our way out from Keiths Hut Saturday mid-day. The would have been from avalanches that same day since we did not observe them the day before.
We opted to skin out and avoid any riding that day. We only rode the moraine down from the hut and did not observe signs of instability, although another report indicates it slid later that day, hypothetically due to more precipitation and rising temperature. Conditions were bad with high avalanche danger, heavy wet and deep snow on a problematic layer ~30cm below.
maximetherrienarel,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 1:00PM
Fat Dog Sludge
Saturday morning Trip up Fat Dog Trail to Burnt knoll and un-named bump.
Lower down before 1500m was crusty, firm and wet.
1500-1700m snow had minimal crust, was 5-10cm of wet and heavy.
South somewhat steeper slopes started developing mild pinwheeling late morning as sun and temp increase.
Above 1800m snow was about boot deep and somewhat lighter and skiied ok for several turns before becoming sludge where turning was very hard.
Descent was very sticky and slow outside of the skintrack.
No visible signs of instability other than mild pinwheels of the top <5cm.
We left early afternoon as it started to warm up and Rain started.
Ryan,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 8:00AM