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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 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 →  AccuWeather Long Range Expert Joe Bastardi believes there is a significant chance for particularly frigid winters in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 into 2014-2015. Bastardi said these winters could be similar to winters of the late 1970s. He said, “While the Read More →  This large avalanche and enormous crown was reported at Mt. Hood Meadows with last weeks big snow and warming cycle. Mt. Hood Meadows boasts the most varied and exciting trails in the Northwest and Mt. Hood’s most advanced terrain. Read More →  Cold temperatures and seemingly endless precipitation created a great week of skiing here in Western Canada. And the snowfall hit most of the Canadian powder meccas with good accumulation. Here is an overview of where the snow fell this Read More → The Canadian Avalanche Center has warned skiers, snowmobilers and other winter sports enthusiasts to stay out of much of the western Canadian back country. The center describes conditions in some areas as the most dangerous in 30 years. Karl 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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