Whistler Blackcomb opened for the 2021/22 season on Thursday, November 25th offering fresh powder to those lucky enough to be there! Mother nature dropped 30cm of fresh snow overnight and 66cm this week to make a 125cm base for an amazing opening day. A small crowd of 900 skiers and boarders were in line for …
Read more Whistler Blackcomb Starts Season with Powder!
Whitewater Ski Resort and Backcountry Skiing Canada have posted their first Avalanche Conditions Report for the coming season.
Read more Whitewater Avalanche Conditions Report
Here are the scheduled opening days for Powder Canada's list of Mountain Resorts that should be on every powder junkies list.
Read more Mountain Resorts 2021 Opening Days
The NOAA predicts that this La Nina is expected to last through the early spring 2022. For powder skiers the "little girl" makes for a great season!
Read more La Niña is back!
The important consistency in both Farmer's Almanac forecasts is that it will snow, we can be assured that we'll have another season of powder!
Read more Farmer’s Almanac 2021–2022 Winter Forecasts
Avalanche Canada launched Avy Savvy in 2020, a tutorial for backcountry beginners that provides a solid introduction to avalanche safety. The educational tool teaches beginners the basics about avalanche safety fundamentals, what an avalanche is and where they happen, companion rescue and the avalanche terrain exposure scale. “It’s vital for anyone venturing into the winter …
Read more Avy Savvy: Avalanche Canada’s Online Avalanche Tutorial
Avalanche education and awareness has come a long ways in a couple of decades and the advancements continue. The Kootenay Backcountry Guides are looking for your feedback on how to cater to the what recreational backcountry users are looking for after taking their AST-2. This is the pretext to their survey: “The most common question …
Read more What follows the AST-2 course survey
Even though we are in the midst of spring and the snow is mostly melted, avalanche experts warn we’re not out of the woods just yet as there is still a lot of snow in the mountains. “Things change really quick and during these springtime cycles, you can see a drastic change from stable to …
Read more Alaska Avalanche Danger High throughout Spring
Around this time of year avalanche forecasts switch from rating danger by elevation band to rating danger by time of day.
Read more Avalanche Canada – Communicating spring conditions
Sudden changes to the weather are forecast in the coming week. Expect this to complicate the avalanche conditions.
Read more Avalanche Canada: Time to consider warming
Avalanche Canada is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users in the North Rockies, South Rockies, the Lizard & Flathead, and Waterton Lakes National Park.
Read more Special Public Avalanche Warning
Despite an overall reduction in avalanche activity, there have been several near misses in recent days from across the province.
Read more Avalanche Canada on Managing Moderate
