The mountains are calling, and soon, powder will be filling our dreams as the lifts start spinning across Alberta and British Columbia! With winter settling in, skiers and snowboarders alike are counting down the days until those first chairlifts roll up the slopes. Here’s a rundown of opening dates across the Rockies and beyond, listed …
Read more Resort Powder Days Are Almost Here!
The Alpine Club of Canada (ACA) is offering a skiing experience in Rogers Pass that's normally reserved for heli-accessed lodges!
Read more Rogers Pass Powder Camps
This is a beautifully captured film that highlights the amazing work these folks do everyday.
Read more The Pass
As powder enthusiasts question our snowy Christmas and eagerly await the arrival of the next big snowfall, the present El Niño weather patterns have been casting some doubt.
Read more A Snowy Christmas Outlook
Studies by University of British Columbia Okanogan Campus (UBCO) have shown that the Pandemic Heli Ski Shutdown doubled the range of caribou. During the 2020 “anthropause,” when COVID-19 travel restrictions nearly grounded heli-skiing, both movement and mean home-range of the caribou groups increased dramatically compared to years when normal heli ski operations dominated. The anthropause …
Read more Pandemic Heli Ski Shutdown Doubled Range of Caribou
With winter nearly upon us, Parks Canada is about to launch their Rogers Pass Winter Permit System.
Read more Rogers Pass Winter Permit System
The countdown to the 17th edition of the Freeride World Tour is underway
Read more 2024 Freeride World Tour Calendar
Parks Mountain Safety announced today that all Glacier National Park Winter Permit System areas will be CLOSED. Attention Glacier National Park backcountry users: All Winter Permit System areas will be CLOSED until further notice due to high avalanche danger and potential avalanche control work. The Rogers Pass Backcountry Access app will not be available due …
Read more Glacier National Park Winter Permit System areas CLOSED
Avalanche Canada reported that they are deeply saddened to learn that two people were killed in an avalanche accident.
Read more Two Avalanche Deaths outside Kicking Horse boundary
Best wishes to Canadian athletes Katie Anderson and Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Kick ass at the Horse!
Read more FWT23 heading to Kicking Horse
Avalanche Canada is reporting that the snowpack is spooky for much of Western Canada.
Read more Avalanche Canada: The Persisting Problem
Operation PALACI is Canadian Armed Forces support for the Parks Canada program to control avalanches in Rogers Pass
Read more Rogers Pass Operation PALACI
