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Sunshine Slack Country

Published: Apr 12th, 2026

Started the skin track up Sunshine from Banff Avenue at 9am. Entered the slack country behind Wawa chair and skinned up the bluff right behind the chair. Hard crust underneath wet powder. The day was mild temperatures with minimal sun exposure. No immediate signs of avalanches. Stable conditions.

Bourgeau Lake trail

Published: Apr 5th, 2026

Decided to ski up Bourgeau Lake trail. Wet, heavy, but not quite rotten snow, overall pleasant trail skiing. Turned around at 5.5km slide path, which had a large volume of debris, probably from the big March cycle, but only ran down a few meters past the summer trail. Saw some recent size 1 wet point slides farther uphill on that slide path. Slide at 2km looks like it ran all the way to the creek, probably also March cycle. Lots of pinwheels, but didn't see any wet slides there yet. At 13:15, started hearing regular rock slides coming off the cliffs on the opposite side of Wolverine Creek.

Goats eye couloir

Published: Apr 3rd, 2026

the last bit is quite sketchy, skiing as well, you have to plan your route, lots of slough and windloaded in the couloir. triggered a size 1

Bourgeau Left

Published: Mar 28th, 2026

Dagger hanging left of the top pitch of Bourgeau Left. First pitch is a bit hollow as usual. No signs of snow instability noted during day, slide debris is impressive.

Twin Lakes trail update

Published: Mar 27th, 2026

Skinned most of the way to Twin Lakes on the summer trail. 6cm of settling fresh snow over a hard and mostly supportive crust. Easy travel. No signs of instability observed. Bits of fun tree skiing. Lots of new deadfall since November. Reports of grizzly sighting on the north side of Castle Junction. No bear tracks but lots of feline (bobcat?). Might be time to start bringing bear spray on tours.

Just the Nub

Published: Mar 22nd, 2026

Very good snow above 2300m, with ankle deep penetration and good turns. The storm dump was frozen stiff and supportive at 2030m, with 5 or 6cm loose snow from last night on top of it . We skied the "Side Door" back into bounds. The snow started out ok and became crustier and icier as we neared Wolverine chair. Smalltown Djs were spinning at Goat's Eye. Excellent Vibes. It's still winter up in the alpine.

Stanley Glacier Walk

Published: Mar 22nd, 2026

Went out for a cautious walk in the valley to see the damage from the week. Looks like every slide path available on both sides of the valley have already released from peak to valley bottom except for the 3rd chute on the south face. We avoiding skiing everything and never even took our skins off. Snow quality was awful and Avy risk remains a factor.

Bourgeau 11 skier triggered avalanche

Published: Mar 14th, 2026

Wawa Bowl and Backdoor

Published: Mar 7th, 2026

Went up to Wawa Bowl during the storm on Saturday. The snow was very deep but felt stable. Insanely windy on the ridge itself. It was around -2 while skiing so perhaps that might affect the snow there and the snow coming down was wetter and heavy.

Sa Outside Wild West Boundary

Published: Mar 1st, 2026

Wawa Ridge just before the rocky section

Published: Feb 21st, 2026

20–30 cm of dense, granular snow over a firm, consolidated snowpack. Some wind loading observed; cornices present and cracking, but not releasing significant slabs. Snowpack passed at all three pit levels. Shovel jump on the surface layer resulted in compaction only, no propagation or collapse. Amazing powder riding.

Wawa ridge backside

Published: Feb 22nd, 2026

We skied black towers and wizard chutes, we saw good stability in black towers but triggered several loose dry's in wizard chutes from a high ski cut on the steep slope, failing approx 20cm down on facets, entraining the new snow from earlier in the week running 100-150m.

Stanley Headwall sz1

Published: Feb 21st, 2026

Highly spatially variable conditions approaching the climb. Isolated features produced whumpfing, shooting cracks, and slab releases. These seemed to be steeper convexities with a stiffer storm/persistent slab. We continued through to the route despite a climber involvement in a sz1.

Bourgeau 9

Published: Feb 20th, 2026

Great conditions on BG today! 2100-2400m 15-20 of fist snow overlying a supportive MFCR making for good travel with out having to be too concerned for things stepping down to our SH layer. As we gained ridge top very minimal blowing snow observed with light winds from the SE. We were pretty surprised to see how minimal wind affect there was working our way along the ridge line. BG10 and 9.5 (we skied the very bottom opening as we traversed above the cliff band) they appeared to be in great conditions. As we entered the top of BG 9 the snow pack was shallower and feeling the effects of the sun stiffening up to 4f- but was still disconnected. Dropping into the face 25-35 of fist on top of the MFCR was usually what we found although there were some isolated areas where the snow was shallower but still dust on crust. exceptional skiing the entire way down. We opted to rap a steep snow gully so we could traverse out under BG left ice climb all the way to car park. Ruff way point for the rap in photos Great day!

Wind Effect on Wawa

Published: Feb 18th, 2026

Went to Wawa ridge today and noticed an inversion - it was significantly warmer as we got higher, to the point that there was a bit of pinwheeling when we were near the top of the ridge. We noticed some wind-affected snow, though some of the cornices on the ridge were from before the new snow. I tested a small cornice on a small roll heading up the ridge, and the new snow fell off the harder layer beneath and fell to the ground as a chunk/slab (see photo). However, skiing below the ridge towards Side Door, the top layer of snow felt soft.

Twin Cairns + Meadows

Published: Feb 14th, 2026

Good skiing down the west facing slope of the cairns from the top. Powder mostly, some crusts. Then snow-kiting in the meadows was fantastic with ~15cm of powder.

Jan 3 still reactive in tests

Published: Feb 12th, 2026

Skied south aspects down FTC col, finding crusty skiing where terrain is angled more towards sun. In the afternoon lapped East and Northeast aspects around Wawa bowl with a couple other parties in the area and found great skiing, ~20-25cm of fist over the Jan 24th layer, midpack progressively resistant going from 4-finger to pencil resistance. Digging a test pit in a sheltered surface hoar farm in open trees protected from wind and sun found 6-8mm SH down 25 producing CTE/CTM resistant planer breaks. Jan 3 surface hoar down 60cm producing ECTP 14 results on 3-5mm surface hoar. Pencil resistance snow above and below layer. Other than the spooky test results, no signs of reactivity. Suspect Jan 3 distribution is this area is spotty, being cooked off solar aspects and blown off windy slopes.

Crusty, wind hammered Gibbon Pass Peak

Published: Feb 7th, 2026

Spent the weekend at Shadow Lake Lodge. Sunny and warm on Friday for the ski in. Initial idea had been to see if we could get up Gibbon Peak West, but the entire alpine face was bare rock. Went up Gibbon Pass Peak on Saturday, day started warm but had howling winds in the alpine. Some breakable wind slabs on the W/SW slopes we were on and wind transport observed. Had thought about traversing to Ski Hill Peak but ridgeline was bare rock. Ski conditions were hard and wind affected transitioning to crusty and heavy lower down towards the lodge. Size 1 loose wet avalanche likely from a couple days back observed on the South face of Storm Mountain. Had a couple cm of snow overnight Saturday which helped the travel back towards the highway from Shadow Lake Lodge, but still very icy on the hills.

Little Bourgeau via north ridge

Published: Feb 6th, 2026

It doesn’t have to be fun, to be fun. We found a mixed bag from facets to crusts and smoo of all kinds. Challenging gaining the ridge in crusty fascets and ski crampons were necessary as were several boot packs. Everything stayed put and we felt good about stability, but the skiing was of the survival variety. (One gully before the ridge was a bit spicy) This was a “once and never again” objective.

Massive Mountain

Published: Feb 7th, 2026

Traversed from Bourgeau lake towards massive mountain over several ridges. North aspects in the alpine had some soft wind slabs that had started to faceted out which made for good drought skiing, North aspects at treeline still had good powder. Below 1800m found spring like corn snow out the creek which was in great condition. Bourgeau trail would not be great to ski out. Found small surface Hoar from 1800m to 2000m in shady drainages. No new avalanches.

Storm North Bowl

Published: Feb 6th, 2026

Found dry snow as low as 1700m on shaded polar aspects but anything with a hint of solar was wet or crusty. Morriane had good powder but increased wind effect as you got into the alpine. Mostly skiable wind slab in the alpine was occasionally cracking down 10 cm on facets on the kick turns. Probed 3m on the deepest part of the glacier.

Storm North Bowl

Published: Feb 6th, 2026

Found dry snow as low as 1700m on shaded polar aspects but anything with a hint of solar was wet or crusty. Morriane had good powder but increased wind effect as you got into the alpine. Mostly skiable wind slab in the alpine was occasionally cracking down 10 cm on facets on the kick turns. Probed 3m on the deepest part of the glacier.

Mt Brent drainage, Surfy facets

Published: Jan 29th, 2026

The snow pack in the area was shallower than else where in the Rockies 90-130cm at treeline. The tempature crust ended at 1750m and found 20-30 cm of sugary facets sitting on a supportive midpack. Around a few boulders in shallower spots the facets go to ground. Great skiing on the way down in wind protected areas. Tougher skinning slipping backwards in the facets.

Mt Brent drainage, Surfy facets

Published: Jan 29th, 2026

The snow pack in the area was shallower than else where in the Rockies 90-130cm at treeline. The tempature crust ended at 1750m and found 20-30 cm of sugary facets sitting on a supportive midpack. Around a few boulders in shallower spots the facets go to ground. Great skiing on the way down in wind protected areas. Tougher skinning slipping backwards in the facets.

Bourgeau 9

Published: Jan 28th, 2026

Skied Bourgeau 9 above the waterfall today. Travel was fast and easy to the ridge, ridge up was heavily scoured and involved a mix of booting and skinning due to exposed rocks. The upper lower angle part of the face was atrocious skiing on pencil sastrugi and old windslab. Entering the main slope there was some new and touchy cornice(up to 30cm) with 5-10 of fist to 4F snow on the slope below, we easily dropped the cornice and did a ski cut but got no results on the slope below. Skiers left side of the guts(windward) was either firm old windslab or zipper crust, skiers right side of the guts(leeward) skied very well with up to 10 of consistent fist to 4F. Below 2250m the there was a widespread suncrust on all sun-exposed southern aspects that was skiable but slightly hooky. In the trees there is still good snow. Overall solid feeling snowpack with some fresh windslabs and cornices slowly building and thin spots gradually getting more faceted. No surface hoar observed. Get minfluenced foo

Wawa west

Published: Jan 25th, 2026

Incline: 25⁰ CTN ECTX

Bourgeau Left

Published: Jan 22nd, 2026

Approach: ~45 min -17 C at car park. Good travel on approach snow slopes with a decent trail kicked in. Higher up snowpack became much more supportive, crampons useful on the upper steeper sections. First few meters delaminated hollow kicks and tools. Marginal screws in snicey ice. ~15m up had a settlement where ice on the rhs collapsed and fell close to belayer, not climber induced and before the sun had come out and temps warmed up. A few more meters up, felt and heard another settlement which seemed more substantial. We decided to bail quickly, left a single screw and draw.

Looking for Surface Hoar

Published: Jan 11th, 2026

ECT N16 and N28. N16 failed with resistance 30 cm down, no propagation. N28 failed 35 cm down on what we suspect is the Jan 3 surface hoar layer, resistant and no propagation. Snow was stiff, facets on the bottom 30cm of the snowpack. We heard whumpfing on our exit out about 500m from where we dug the pit. We suspect the surface hoar layer is still active in isolated terrain within the area.

Healy to Wawa

Published: Jan 1st, 2026

Skinned up Healy cr trail to Wawa ridge via Simpsons pass. No whomping noted and slopes seemed stable. Stayed off high angled open slopes. Observed small slab avalanche that appeared skier triggered on Wawa ridge but bowl was stable and skied well

Wawa Ridge

Published: Dec 28th, 2025

Toured up from the Sunshine parking lot to the ridge behind the Wawa Chair. Skied back down to the parking area. The snowpack felt generally supportive with no signs of instability—no whumpfing or cracking observed. There was some minor wind drifting along the ridge, but no significant snow transport or slab formation noted.

Healy Pass

Published: Dec 26th, 2025

Skied Healy Pass and the surrounding knobs. We noticed some wumphing and settling on windslabs at ridgeline. Snowpack was probing 160-170cm deep at 2400m, with a noticeable crust 110cm below surface.

Waterman couloir and Stanley glacier

Published: May 26th, 2024

Access onto the Stanley glacier was pretty painless. You can skin from around 1800m in the valley and we kept skins on all the way to the base of the waterman couloir. Probed 3m or more on the glacier and were able to find a path through the holes on the compression zone in semi flat light conditions. On the glacier there was 5-10cm of new snow and couldn’t feel any crusts down at least 50cm. Still very wintery feeling up high. In the line we wallowed in 15-25cm of deep snow almost all the way to the top. We turned around 5m from the cornice as there was only 30cm of snow on top the ice. Skiing was great all the way back to the valley.

Goats eye

Published: May 2nd, 2024

Went to check out the goats eye thinking we would likely just ski the slide paths. As we got up high the snow felt good underfoot and was bonding very well so we went to the eye. Rock bands were completely covered and we skied deep powder in the chute (20-30cm.) The slide path also skied very well until 1900m. The lower path was moist powder. No signs of instability on ascent or descent in terrain up to 40 degrees. Winters not over yet!

Buck wild bourg

Published: Mar 29th, 2024

Summited Bourgeau via Sunshine back lot to Borg meadow and skied Borg 10 to 9.75. Travel was good throughout, supportive crust from bottom to top, finding up to 30 cms of fist in upper tree line, and average of 15-20. On the summit ramp average of 80 cm with a 3 cms pencil bomber crust with facetes beneath. Good skiing throughout. Some older size 2-3.5 off the solar aspects from warming cycle in Borg 9.5-10. If skiing 10, cut skiers left through trees before cliff choke point half way down line. By end of day snow was moist to crust at 2400 on solar aspects and under but made for good skiing . Anywhere sheltered stayed dry. Weather was broken in the morning and trended overcast with s-1 for afternoon. No instability observed

Lower Twin Cairns slopes.

Published: Mar 15th, 2024

Solar input was changing the surface snow. By 11 am the surface snow changed from powder to wet and getting heavy at 2400 meters. Column test on NE aspect 25deg slope.

Skier accidental size 1 in the Wizard Chutes

Published: Mar 8th, 2024

Copper Bowl

Published: Mar 5th, 2024

Considering the elevated hazard and SPAW, we did a mellow tour which brought us to the top of "Ski Hill Peak". We had some wumpfs as we climbed along the creek, and on the slope above Copper pass. Apart from the avalanche path that slide below Pilot Mtn and ran all the way to the Redearth Creek trail (see Avalanche tab), we did not see recent activity, but visibility wasn't great. We skied the very mellow SE face slopes back to the drainage; these slopes had good snow once passed the windblown summit. A good, albeit sloggy objective in elevated hazard conditions.

Gibbon pass

Published: Mar 4th, 2024

Three friends skied cautiously, assessed snowpack, felt wind effect at above treeline so bailed and skied down. Lightly snowing all day, cloudy, air temp around -10C. Observed size 3 avy on way into Shafow Lake Mar.3,2024

Wawa North Slack Size 2

Published: Mar 1st, 2024

Post-work afternoon walk around Wawa North towards Healy Main; no signs of instability nor natural activity. On the way towards the drainage, we avoided the steep alpine features leading towards the drain and skied a mellow gully. When in the gully, we remote triggered (~100m) a size 2 avalanche on a steep cross-loaded alpine feature near tree line. It failed on the DPL. We dug a pit in the trees above the drainage. HS165. Crust observed @ 125cm. Multiple weak layers below 100cm. ECTN22H. Saw one other skier who ripped Wizards solo.

Gibbon Pass (Out)ing

Published: Feb 23rd, 2024

Took a long walk out to Gibbon Pass Friday. Wind scouring and wind loading has definitely been going on this week through the pass and adjacent slopes. Which had us avoid the good skiing for fear of wind slabs and enjoying some mediocre skiing on lower angles. Couple small sluffs in extreme terrain of the north face of Storm Mtn on our approach in the AM.

Nemesis

Published: Feb 13th, 2024

It felt like the ice was adjusting to the cold temperatures. We heard some spontaneous cracking. There were some brittle shells and petals and some hooks/holes from previous parties.

Stanley Shoulder

Published: Feb 10th, 2024

Wawa Ridge

Published: Feb 10th, 2024

Skied the Sunshine slackcountry today on the ridge between Wawa and Twin Cairns. Good skiing in the fresh snow on top of the recent crust from last week's warm spell, and plenty of under-equipped folks were hiking out from the resort to take advantage.

Ready to Rock(ski)

Published: Feb 9th, 2024

Skied the Goat's Eye, BTL travel was tough, at TL up to 10 of fist snow on top of a supportive crust(made skinning hard). In Alpine the crust was mostly supportive to boots. The main path below the choke had slid previously but the climbers right side had a 10cm 4f windlsab with resistant planar hand shears. Choke was steep with some rock moves. Skied consistent the whole way down, sluff was running fast entraining the top 5cm above the choke, very thin just below the choke. Bring rock skis! Ski crampons and ice axe recommended.

Nightmare on wolf street

Published: Feb 8th, 2024

We climbed till top of pitch 3 with good condition in general. The ice mushrooms didn't connect to main flow (see the pictures) on pitch 4. Just trace of new snow, Very light-west wind and mild temperature Hi -4/ Low -7 through the day. 10-15cm HST on the Feb 3rd crust which was no reactivity where we walked (the traverse ledge). The crust supported our traveling mostly and walking in the old track was good travel conditions. No new avalanches observed today.

Goats Eye Profile

Published: Feb 3rd, 2024

Wawa ridge pits

Published: Jan 31st, 2024

Skied up Wawa ridge to assess conditions and dug 3 pits. Widespread breakable crust, occasionally supportive to skis depending on aspect. Ski pen 10-20cm when breaking through crust. Foot pen to ground most places. Ski quality is terrible. Snowpack moist to base. Top 17-25cm 1F resistance moist slab composed of 1mm rounding facets. Fist resistance facets beneath. Compression tests, and extended column tests had easy-medium planar fractures on this layer in 2 of our pits. See attached snow profiles for more info. Base of snowpack still facets and large depth hoar with a couple weak crusts above.

Wawa Bowl

Published: Jan 24th, 2024

Healy Pass - Prime avalanche conditions

Published: Jan 21st, 2024

We chose healy pass as it is our go to for considerable days as you can mostly avoid avalanche terrain (aside from the 3 runouts that must be passed on the trail in). We dug a pit on a southern representative aspect with a slope of about 26 degrees. We immediately noticed some very concerning layers in the snowpack. About 30cm of harder snow sitting on two separate facet layers. We got propagation on ect 10. With this in mind we stayed out of steep terrain and went to test our suspicions in low consequence terrain. On our uptrack towards healy pass peak we experience some of the largest whumpfing we've ever experienced, and it was a constant on the entire uptrack. We noted that the intensity of the whumpfing was correlated pretty strongly to the slope angle and if there were any nearby convexities. We were able to clearly hear the whumpf travel upslope as the upper layer collapsed on the weaker lower layers. In my opinion skiing avalanche terrain with these conditions would absolutely be a dice roll, and probably not in your favor. We will be waiting for natural avalanche cycles (or time) to settle these problem layers before we consider skiing any avalanche terrain.

Secondary Drain, Storm slabs all elevations

Published: Jan 22nd, 2024

Around noon the sun came out and temperatures rapidly warmed up to 0C at Treeline and below. From the the top of Wawa hump to Healy Creak Trail we found cakey storm slabs 20cm deep sitting on facets from the warm temperatures today and yesterday. Trail breaking and skiing were difficult, with hooky snow. The slabs didn't feel very reactive but we were glad that are route stayed less than 30 degrees. Extensive whumpfing on all aspects and elevations. Shoot cracks up to 30m at Treeline.

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