Tutshi
Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Cornices.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Cornices, Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 13th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs.
Published: Mar 9th, 2025Careful Out There
<p>Warm wet day following the pretty recent snow dump, had a localized whump on the up track, and found a small skier triggered avalanche, likely from yesterday. Wind effect at higher elevations, to beautiful powder, and wet heavy melting snow near the bottom. Avoided and/or cut the top of convexities prior to skiing under them with no results. Just about spring t shirt skiing! </p>
rachelonsorge,
Sunday 19th March, 2023 7:30PM
Powder Valley Chutes
<p>Great, cold day skiing around Paddy's Peak. Conditions were very variable, with deep powder down low in the trees, to super hard wind affected snow.
We did find reactive wind slabs on our way up, but nothing seemed to be propagating.
An ECT test didn't yield any results, but we did notice some layer movement on the buried hoar frost layers.
Pit was on a NNE aspect, 35° slope at 1120m. Snow depth was 150cm</p>
olivier.clements,
Sunday 12th March, 2023 6:40PM
Touring in powder valley
<p>Expectations were low as we left the whitepass this morning with moderate winds out of the north and poor visibility. Our drive inland was rewarded with better visibility, a bit less wind, and some surprisingly sheltered riding. We dug a pit and found 2 prominent layers down 55 and 73 cm on an east aspect at 1350m. Tests on an extended column test where hard but propagated the whole block with quite a lot of energy. Our persistent layer is definitely present out here! We saw some natural windslab avalanches from the alpine terrain but some were large enough to make it into the trees. We stuck to areas sheltered from the wind by trees and terrain, without large slopes above where there was some great snow to be had!</p>
Yukon Field Team,
Friday 10th March, 2023 1:50PM
Tutshi tour
<p>Went for a long walk around the tutshi chutes area today. In the lowest trees riding quality has been spared, but in exposed terrain, hard, breakable wind affect was the norm.
No wind today and snow conditions feel like there is little change as the weather maintains a similar pattern. We were weary of large connected terrain because of our persistent problem and areas with hard drum like surfaces.
Hopefully it snows again soon!</p>
Yukon Field Team,
Thursday 9th March, 2023 4:40PM
Skelly
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Skied to the peak North of Skelly Lake. Widespread wind effect upper treeline and above. We actively avoided wind loaded features. In some East facing features at upper treeline small 20cm deep pockets of wind slab were reactive over facets. Wind affected surfaces made for very fast travel in the alpine. Preserved snow is facetting and makes for good skiing in the trees.
Moderate wind transport at ridgetop throughout the day. Further South in White Pass, Strong to Extreme wind transport could be seen with large plumes of snow being blown off mountaintops.</p>
breanne.erica,
Monday 6th March, 2023 4:00PM
Summit hill hot laps
<p>Dig a pit at 1400m S/Se aspect angle 26.
Persistant weak layer at 55cms and wind slab formed on top. Total snow pack 240cms.
Column test: E6 partial collapse at 10cms, likely wind slab. E8 planar collapse at 30 and 40 Cms with another, both triggered. H2 planar collapse at 55cms- weak persistant layer.
Based on our results we stuck to conservative skiing and had some fun in the sun/wind. </p>
Leah Gee,
Saturday 4th March, 2023 5:30PM
POWDER Valley lives up to its name
<p>Powder Valley lived up to its name! 30 cm of powder has added up from the past 2 storms. It was snowing steady all day and this storm has given us 20 new snow. Visibility was poor, it has warmed up to -7 C and calm, we were surprised by the lack of wind today.
We sledded up into where the valley opens up at treeline and found amazing deep powder riding.
A profile at lower elevation around 1150 m on an East aspect: we found 120 cm snow depth with 45 cm soft snow on the Jan 25 crust and another down crust down 80 cm. Both weak layers had surface hoar associated with the crust. As expected in this shallower snowpack there is weak sugary snow at the base. At higher elevations the snowpack is deeper and there is a firm wind slab buried under the newest snow.
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Yukon Field Team,
Wednesday 1st March, 2023 4:20PM
Natural avalanche activity in Paddy Peak area
<p>Roadside observations or recent natural activity in the Paddy Peak area, see avalanche tab</p>
Yukon Field Team,
Tuesday 28th February, 2023 3:20PM
Tutshi
<p>Visited Tutshi today for improved visibility compared to WP area. Interesting uptrack with lots of exposed trees and holes in some areas. Probed between 80 and 100+cm in a various areas and hazard rocks exist. No snow movement from the wind, a thin crust in the alpine with nice power mid-mountain. Couple turns then a lot of tree crashing. </p>
brianhyde,
Saturday 11th February, 2023 5:40PM
Paddy E3 Size 2
Brad Halt,
Saturday 11th February, 2023 12:20PM
Tutshi
<p>Windy and warm. Snow was ok higher up but becoming chunky as the day warmed. Lower elevations we encountered heavy snowball snow. Higher elevations were wind affected with considerable buildup in lee areas.</p>
D. Peters,
Tuesday 24th January, 2023 9:40PM
Paddys East - Shallow snowpack, rocks, facets and powder!
<p>Nice day in Paddys Peak area. Snowpack is thin in this area for the time of the year, there is only about 50 to 60 cm snow depth from road elevation to about 1000m. Quite a bit of work to move around in this shallow and bottomless snowpack. Once above this elevation snow coverage starts improving especially in gully features that are filled in.
As it's often the case in this area, we found lots of spatial variability in snow depths and conditions. The snowpack is heavily faceted with hollow and sugary snow near the bottom in shallow areas (ridges, sides of gullies). It is tempting to find places with stiff windslab on top of this weak snow, but it's also the more suspect locations avalanche wise. Gullies and couloirs are much more filled in with depths up to 150cm. In those areas the snowpack felt a lot firmer and consistent with few layers of concerns. There was a thin (3mm) crust, possibly from rime covered by 10cm of new light snow from the last few days (or more in windloaded areas). The new snow was bonding surprisingly well to this crust, with only a couple small loose dry observed in extreme terrain. We couldn't get this surface snow to move while skiing down. As the day progresses the south wind picked up and was moving snow around and creating small pocket of soft wind slab on lee side of gullies and depression. We carefully picked our way down to avoid thin and freshly windloaded gullies. Overall conditions were very good with great powder to be found, we just needed to carefully pick our routes and features.
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davidmorisette,
Thursday 19th January, 2023 7:40AM
powder valley lookers right of creek
<p>Trail into powder valley was actually pretty good. Rode valley and into the alpine on lookers right. Snow was pretty soft and deep. Still was a bit tricky on sleds due to soft base. Was great skiing in the alpine. </p>
Donno Mis,
Friday 6th January, 2023 6:20PM