There is no snow report more real than a Mount Cain Snow Report. Billed as “Important Information” here is the most recent report for Thursday Mar 29, 2012. whisper whisper…. shhhhhh!!! ***** powder alert ***** I just got word Read More →
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Backcountry Lodges Mistaya Lodge Visit their secluded tree-line lodge for all levels of hiking, skiing, [...] Read More Sol Mountain Touring Sol Mountain’s BC backcountry lodge is in the heart of the southern [...] Read More Valhalla Mountain Touring Valhalla Mountain Touring is located in the heart of the Selkirk [...] Read MoreLift Service Castle Mountain Castle Mountain. Over 3500 skiable acres. Two mountains. 78 trails. 8 [...] Read More Lake Louise Ski Area Spectacular scenery awaits at Lake Louise with uniquely beautiful terrain [...] Read More Mount Cain Situated on the north end of Vancouver Island, Mount Cain offers a unique [...] Read More Red Mountain Resort If downhill skiing or snowboarding on a mountain with epic terrain and [...] Read More |
Archive for the ‘Snow Conditions’ Category This intense tree well rescue of a backcountry powder skier in an inverted entrapment shows great teamwork in British Columbia’s South Chilcotin Mountains! Point of clarification – This is real world stuff, raw and flawed. Everyone in this video Read More →  It today’s world with such great information available in so many unique mediums it is appropriate to find an online avalanche course from the Canadian Avalanche Centre. Here is the introduction and link to the chapters: In Canada, we Read More →  Two backcountry skiers and a dog were rescued after getting caught in an avalanche near Kimberley, B.C., yesterday afternoon. At around 4 p.m., Kimberley Search and Rescue and B.C. Ambulance Service personnel were called to the Hellroaring Creek area Read More →  Check out the video of avalanche control near Stewart, BC this past weekend. Pretty spectacular results! In order to reduce the danger of unexpected avalanches in the pass it’s sometimes necessary to initiate a controlled avalanche, sometimes with spectacular Read More →  Where can you find ample snow and good skiing? Well those who consistently have great snow have it and the others are suffering. Whistler just experienced 72cms in the past 7 days. Terrace reports the the deepest snow on Read More →  Understanding why, how and when avalanches are likely to occur is critical to keeping people safe in Canada’s mountains. Communicating safety tips and risk updates to skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers is essential to saving lives. Dr. Bruce Jamieson, Natural Read More →  The following backcountry avalanche burial and rescue happened in 2008 in Alaska and the story is told by Skippy. It is being reposted for all of us to be aware of the hazards of our passion. The first legit Read More →  Wayne Flann, Whistler Blackcomb ski patroler and paramedic, chose a great year to start a new avalanche blog service for Whistler. With over three meters of snow and many unstable layers in the snowpack, big avalanches have been common Read More →  As the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) prepares for the coming season, one of Canada’s leading snowmobile manufacturers has stepped forward to help out. Today, Yamaha-Motor Canada is delivering a new Yamaha Nytro MTX to the CAC, one of the Read More →  The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) marks the start of a new season of avalanche forecasts with a new bulletin format and a significant increase in the number of bulletin regions. “These two developments go hand-in-hand,” explains CAC Executive Director Read More → Each Winter the Canadian Avalanche Centre hosts a number of educational avalanche awareness events. These events are created to help you avoid avalanches like this: Check out an avalanche awareness event near you: Backcountry Avalanche Workshops – Northern Circuit Read More →  Are you a skier or boarder and looking for deep powder? The free Salomon Powfinder mobile application has the best powder forecasts for the best resorts and is available on iPhone and on Android since September 15th. In addition, Read More →  On September 1st as the skies cleared after a cold and wet night the mountains showed a fresh coating of snow. While there wasn’t enough snow to ski on the mountains around Fernie, this fresh snow was sure to Read More →  Yep, snow in the mountains already… Most of you had a hot summer, but in Northwest BC home of Northern Escape, they seem to have skipped Summer and went straight to Fall. With this year’s predicted return of La Read More → |
Snowcats Baldface Lodge With 32,000 acres Baldface has every type of terrain imaginable from [...] Read More Chatter Creek Cat-Skiing Chatter Creek is one of Western Canada’s largest and most [...] Read More Island Lake Catskiing For nearly 20 years Island Lake catskiing has consistently provided guests [...] Read MoreHeli Operators Bella Coola Helisports With over 2 million total acres of jaw-dropping terrain reserved for you [...] Read More Mica Heli Skiing 72,000 hectares (close to 178,000 acres) of towering peaks deep in the [...] Read More Northern Escape Heli Skiing Northern Escape Heli Skiing is located just South of the Alaska border, in [...] Read More |
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