Sunshine
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Healy Pass/Ridge
Skied hippie trees by Healy Pass. Snow was soft and playful, had spectacular views of sunshine and a bit of scarab peak poked out.
Dug a small profile and found plenty of facets at the base. The temperature crust is very supportive and appears to be bridging the load of skiers, but I wouldn’t count on it being the case everywhere, especially when getting onto higher elevations or northern aspects.
walmsmichael,
Tuesday 2nd January, 2024 4:20PM
Healy pass
Walked up to Healy pass today. Snow pack surprisingly normal with 60cm of increasing consolidation, then 20-30cm of facets. Great turns up at the pass. There was wind effect on the pass ridge but staying a couple hundred meters away lead to some fun turns. Ski pen 20cm, boot pen 80cm+.
macxdavies007,
Monday 1st January, 2024 7:20PM
Wawa Ridge
Toured out from the Wawa lift onto some slopes on Wawa ridge and on the shoulders of Twin Carines. Snow was soft and buttery with a firmer layer below on leeward slopes but harder and wind effected on windward slopes. No signs of instability or avalanche. The weather all day was mostly cloudy with very light dusting of snow, light wind, and patches of fog at higher elevations for most of the day.
brando,
Monday 1st January, 2024 7:50AM
Wawa to the creek
No whumpfs or cracks in any walking.
Slopes below 35 degrees help up well with very little wind slab development in treeline and below treeline.
Hs was consistently 80-90 cm at 2300M
Air temps consistently throughout the day at -4 degrees. Still treading lightly over the basal facets that are definitely still present.
matthew,
Thursday 28th December, 2023 7:20PM
Big V, Central peak
Dropped down to Healy via 2nd drainage, no signs of instability, snow was better than expected
Skied up Y drainage, travel was difficult, needs another 12-24” to cover downfall
Cut a cornice into the big V, entrained some recent wind deposed snow travelling down 100m, did not propagate sideways or step down.
Skied a run on central peak NE side, very wind affected even low down
Exit via big V, upper Bench skied well, lower was difficult, lots of cornice debris on breakable wind/sun/rain crust
fishstyx40,
Wednesday 27th December, 2023 7:20AM
Healy/Monarch
Beautiful bluebird day at Healy Pass bordering on Monarch Ramparts. We only skied east-facing slopes and mostly stuck to trees and a few chutes. Total snow depth was 80-100cm below treeline. Snow was fairly soft and uniform throughout and made for great skiing. It is still shallow enough to be concerned about rocks and other features below the surface. Above treeline the snow was much thinner and harder due to wind effect. In one wind-loaded chute (farthest left tracks in photo) there was a small (2cm?) wind skin which sluffed off. About 20cm below the surface was a larger wind slab about 30cm thick which lay on a softer layer. It seemed fairly stable-no cracking or whumpfing- and it did not move, but it made the skiing unpleasant.
asfehr,
Sunday 24th December, 2023 6:20PM
Healy Pass & Simpson Pass
wly.1204,
Friday 22nd December, 2023 5:10PM
Wawa Ridge
Toured up the Sunshine ski out and topped out at the top of Wawa Ridge. Snow conditions varied depending on where you were during the climb. Snow pack felt dense and firm under foot. Walked part of the ridge to get up, very wind affected and packed down. Made for an easy walk. Skiing was ok, lots of people have made turns here so the area is a bit skied out. However, still soft snow to be found and fun to be had. Tried to maximize the descent and ended up joining into the ravine exit that back door runs into from the resort. Rider beware here. The ravine doesn't have much coverage. Plenty of roots, fallen trees and rocks to dodge on the way out if you go that way.
cdvermette1,
Friday 22nd December, 2023 10:40AM
Goat's Eye - Profile
Before doing the profile, we toured around Wawa Ridge - 10 cm ski penetration at treeline, generally supportive snowpack to skis, isolated wind slabs found around Wawa ridge - stubbornly reactive and not propagating on the one feature we tested. We didn't travel far, so only a point observation.
In the Goat's Eye profile, we found a gradual temperature gradient and evidence of rounding & bonding crystals. The surface hoar was hard to distinguish, but could see a few decomposing plates amongst the faceted crystals. This layer is at the top of the weaker lower snowpack.
lisapaulson,
Friday 22nd December, 2023 10:40AM
Healy Pass Walk
ssmrtka,
Thursday 21st December, 2023 8:20AM
Wawa Ridge Laps
Great day skiing the front side of Wawa ridge. We skinned up all the way to the top of the ridge, which was quite wind affected. We skied below the ridge, out of the wind. Light powder made for a really fun day and some great turns.
sgcarter012,
Wednesday 20th December, 2023 7:10PM
Healy pass
supportive crust 20-40cm below surface.
observed large cornices on Monarch ramparts and the track of a size 1 avalanche on steep windload NE slopes.
Good coverage, no rocks hit.
cmurrayschlitt,
Wednesday 20th December, 2023 6:50PM
Nemesis
Nemesis climbs well. Dagger hanging above 1/2 way ledge is growing and looks threatening to lower pitches.
Approach slopes to climbs have about 50cm Hs, with pronounce rain crust down about 30cm. Upper snow seems well bonded to crust. By mid afternoon the surface snow was moist up to treeline.
We approached the climb on foot, which requires some tedious boot packing from summer trail. I would ski tour in next time, as there is ample coverage on the hiking trail, and the snowpack off trail would carry nicely on skis.
Some recent ski tracks in the valley looked like they had nice turns.
Kevin R,
Wednesday 20th December, 2023 5:30PM
Healy Pass
taylormorgan677,
Saturday 16th December, 2023 5:50PM
Wawa Ridge & Standish tour
A nice early season tour up Wawa Ridge and Standish. We were able to skin all the way to the summit of the ridge (I've never been able to do that before, usually have to boot pack the last 100m). Skiing was much better than expected, we enjoyed some good turns on great powder down mellow slopes below the ridge. We stayed entirely out of avalanche terrain, but noted no instabilities despite a lot of trailbreaking. Lots of wind effect in the alpine, as expected. Somehow managed to avoid the sharks. The rockiest skiing all day was on the Sunshine ski runs.
brendan.clark,
Saturday 16th December, 2023 5:30PM
Healy Pass
We went for a tour up to Healy Pass today and skied very conservative terrain. Variable conditions were present due to wind affect, but areas that weren’t crusted contained excellent dry powder and made for some great skiing!
gwilson031,
Friday 15th December, 2023 4:10PM
Healy Pass
We went for a tour up to Healy Pass today and skied very conservative terrain. Variable conditions were present due to wind affect, but areas that weren’t crusted contained excellent dry powder and made for some great skiing!
gwilson031,
Friday 15th December, 2023 4:10PM
Healy Pass
It was a mostly cloudy day never warming up above -12c. At our maximum elevation around 2300 meters there was definite whumping occurring on mellow terrain. 90 cms base with 45+ cms new snow.
fabrique,
Sunday 10th December, 2023 10:00AM
Wawa ridge
Couple of laps off Wawa ridge climbers left just above the resort. Boot top powder. There was already a beaten in skin track from Thursday? but only one set of down tracks.
Approx 1m of snow. Quite a few whoompfs crossing the flats to / from the resort.
msweatmanv250,
Friday 8th December, 2023 7:40PM
Wawa Ridge
Wawa ridge on Sunday. Overall good snow. Coverage is improving compared to beginning of the season but hazards are still present. Snow depth varied from 12-50+ centimetres in some places. The integrity of the base + incoming storm + winds encouraged us to be conservative with our lines. The top of the ridge was windy with poor visibility but relatively good coverage allowed easy mobility. Ridge showed some signs of wind displaced snow which could become a potential avalanche hazard with more snow, especially on the SW facets . Some whoomphing on the walk up. Encountered 2 other groups along the way.
SEBAS0594,
Friday 8th December, 2023 12:20PM
Wawa Ridge
Skiied a few laps off Wawa ridge, snow depth anywhere from 10-50cm but generally found it on the deeper side in most places. Very windy at ridgetop with lots of wind transport happening, but didn't see any signs of instability aside from a thin windskin sending some shooting cracks.
Dug a few hand shears in the alpine (E facing slopes), the blocks tended to just fall apart with no distinct failure. Seems the snow has managed to avoid being pressed into a dense slab for now. Winds started from the SW and seemed to shift to from the SE by mid-afternoon. Snow was still falling when we left at 3pm.
Got some good turns and almost forgot about the slow start to this season until a lurking shark snapped me back to reality. Still quite a few out there.
wseah,
Sunday 3rd December, 2023 9:20PM
Wawa Ridge
Skiied a few laps off Wawa ridge, snow depth anywhere from 10-50cm but generally found it on the deeper side in most places. Very windy at ridgetop with lots of wind transport happening, but didn't see any signs of instability aside from a thin windskin sending some shooting cracks.
Dug a few hand shears in the alpine (E facing slopes), the blocks tended to just fall apart with no distinct failure. Seems the snow has managed to avoid being pressed into a dense slab for now. Winds started from the SW and seemed to shift to from the SE by mid-afternoon. Snow was still falling when we left at 3pm.
Got some good turns and almost forgot about the slow start to this season until a lurking shark snapped me back to reality. Still quite a few out there.
wseah,
Sunday 3rd December, 2023 9:20PM
Wawa
Not a ton to update. Conditions remains mostly below threshold. Definitely more likely to be injured catching a shark than in an avalanche. Tips up and careful riding! Widespread surface hoar near treeline. Some small sluffing in steep thin terrain.
Steven Noël,
Friday 1st December, 2023 5:20PM
Wawa bump
cmurrayschlitt,
Friday 1st December, 2023 1:07PM
Storm creek
Things are changing in the alpine, the day started off warm, cloudy, foggy and calm, light snow. It ended cold and windy, lots of spindrift and really big sluffs.
Sebastian Taborszky,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Storm Creek wind and snow
Lots of wind and snow picking up in the afternoon. Several spindrif avalanches came over Xena and Cosban with over a foot of new snow at the routes base. Significant spindrift activity up high on the hike out around 2pm with increasing winds.
kylegpotts,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Sick Day
Hiked the Vista Lake trail to climb an alpine route on Unnamed, a sub-peak on Storm Mountain. Approx. 30cm base over rocks with small wind loaded pockets on east aspects. Observed cracking and whumpfing on the approach. It snowed all day, accumulating approx 8-10cm of new snow. We crossed one major avalanche slope that gets frequently loaded from sluffing, breaking through two obvious crusts, approx. 20cm and 30cm down.
The ice was phenomenal! We rappelled before the bulk of the snowfall. This route is best done early season, before avalanche slopes reach threshold.
Temps were quite warm, felt like -5C most of the day. Wind gusts picked up in the afternoon (3pm).
chalkstones,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Storm Creek sz 1
ski629,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Storm creek
Conditions have noticeably changed in Storm Creek, with a crew encountering an avalanche track that went over the normal approach in the Xena/Cosban to Crash area, between yesterday and today. Avalanche slid to the ground and was triggered from above. Numerous whoompfs and cracks reported on approach below climbs, as well as other signs of instability (see pics). New wind loading was observed through the day. These are not my personal observations, friends passed on the beta and pictures.
Sebastian Taborszky,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:38PM
Storm firebreak -
"skied" Storm firebreak. Skinned up, walked down, HS 20-30cm, nowhere near enough coverage to ski yet.
cmurrayschlitt,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Healy Pass
Lots of new snow in the Sunshine area. Good conditions on the trail in, fast on the way out. Dug a pit on a south aspect, about 600m east of Healy Pass at 2244m. 54cm HS and 20cm storm snow on a weak base. Column test, no results. Supportive enough to ski but still plenty of rocks lurking.
GordFerguson,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:37PM
Wawa Ridge
We went up to the Wawa ridge from top of the chair to just below the repeater. Ski down SE bowl to 2250m then traverse back to ski hill. Up to 25cm F recent storm snow overlies either MFcr or hard wind slab. Average HS is 50cm, still thin coverage overall. SH grows up to 3cm at tree line and sheltered alpine. Observed whumpfing in the forest.
yuji,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM
Wawa Ridge
Skinned to ridge top for some fitness and to shake off the early season rust. Skied the mellow slope on skiers right of the main bowl, some good turns to be had but the rocks remind you they’re still there every couple of turns. “Skied” the backdoor drainage back to the resort, not recommended…
christian.macdonald,
Wednesday 29th November, 2023 9:36PM
Healy 123, lost peak and centre peak
<p>Still significant whumpfing on mostly sheltered and polar aspects.
Reactive wind slabs forming along the Lee side in the alpine.
Sun crust all the way to our high point 2550m 1-3”.
Good skiing on the polar aspects.
Multiple Late afternoon Size 1 Loose wet avalanche’s in the “y” drainage.</p>
fishstyx40,
Sunday 16th April, 2023 8:00AM
Avalanche Control Results Mt Bourgeau
<p>Parks Canada conducted helicopter avalanche control on Mt Bourgeau Thursday evening above the Sunshine Village Access road. While there was a great deal of natural activity in the area already from the previous cycle, 4 of 6 explosives produced very good results on the higher targets. While there were some good propagations in the start zones, as a result of cooling since the storm, these avalanches did not run as far as the natural events that occurred during the storm which ran into rain soaked snow at lower elevations and gained further mass.</p>
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Friday 14th April, 2023 11:20AM
Wawa Ridge
<p>Went up Wawa Ridge for a walk and to look at some low angle terrain. Lots of wind loading, firm wind blown snow. 110cm snow depth, started to dig a pit for my own educational purposes, and had sudden whoomphing and snow pack drop around us. Didn’t finish pit and left area. It was in low angle approximate 22 degree slope. East facing. Below the top crust was all sugary snow. </p>
Nelson,
Sunday 9th April, 2023 11:50AM
Sunshine Wawa N/ NE
<p>We skied some runs off Wawa ridge to the N and NE. Conditions were wind pressed, windslab and wind scoured. Breakable crust on solar and some good facet skiing in sheltered areas from the wind on polar. The weather started out cold, overcast and windy and progressed to warmer -2 and broken by the end of the day. Some drum like sounds were heard and another party off Twin Cairns area reported whumphing. The middle pack is mostly settled and shallow but overlies a very weak base.</p>
OSofer,
Thursday 6th April, 2023 3:40PM
Bourgeau Meadows
<p>No visible signs of new avalanches. Thought we heard two releases in the distance.</p>
mattyb,
Sunday 26th March, 2023 11:00AM
Massive Mountain
Sfreiberg,
Saturday 25th March, 2023 9:20PM
Wawa Ridge Full Profile
<p>Dry supportive snow on north aspect. Sun affected slopes became moist or had a breakable crust.</p>
SSV Snow Safety,
Wednesday 22nd March, 2023 3:40PM
Twin Cairns skier remote
SSV Snow Safety,
Thursday 16th March, 2023 3:20PM
Pilot Mountain deep slabs
<p>Multiple deep persistent slabs observed ok Pilot Mountain. Estimate these occurred on March 13 or 14.</p>
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 15th March, 2023 7:50AM
Mt. Ball
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 7th March, 2023 3:00PM
Fracture line profile - persistent slab
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Thursday 2nd March, 2023 3:20PM
Main Drain
<p>Extensive whumfing in the little larches on the east side and west side of the Wawa hump. Alpine was wind effected but in the trees skied good. Flats were boggy and slow.</p>
wardsbd,
Monday 27th February, 2023 8:10PM
Repeater Slopes, Wawa Ridge
<p>Size 1.5 avalanche on the SE side of Wawa Ridge from approximately 2400 to 2370m. Deep slab separated down to the ground. After the slide we turned around and skied down backdoor. Snow was soft in the trees but fairly windblown on all aspects at treeline and above. </p>
brandonrhayes,
Saturday 25th February, 2023 3:20PM
Woomf
<p>Whumpfing on skin track up east ridge. No movement </p>
caulfield_sean,
Saturday 25th February, 2023 11:40AM
Healy Pass
<p>15cm new snow with range of 5-35cm. Snow quality was amazing. We stayed on low angle slopes; no avalanche terrain. Minor signs of instability on the uptrack. Nothing downhill. Nice to be out but would have loved more turns! Avalanche Risk is too high; expect it was High out there since there was more snow than predicted for the Considerable rating.</p>
mattyb,
Friday 17th February, 2023 2:50PM
Healey Pass Avalanche
<p>While skiing from Bourgeau Meadows over to Healey Pass we remote triggered a large avalanche off the ridge, location of avalanche 51.10434, -115.82293. The avalanche was remote triggered from approx. 100m away on a bench. We couldn’t see how large the avalanche was initially, but as we traversed through we could see that the crown was about 300 m wide, and up to 100cm deep. When we skied out Healey Pass and were able to see that the avalanche was size ~2.5 maybe larger. Debris was about 150 m from the Healey Pass trail. There were a number other large avalanches observed from 1.5-2.5.</p>
oliver-noble,
Wednesday 15th February, 2023 5:30PM
Wawa Test Profile
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 14th February, 2023 2:20PM