Wayne Flann’s Whistler Snow Pack Summary
Here is a crash course on what’s been going on in the area around Whistler Blackcomb
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Category: Snow Conditions
Be Careful out there!
Powder Canada’s Christmas message for all you backcountry enthusiasts is be careful out there! On December 23rd we skied to the Thunder Meadows Cabin in the Lizard Range, Fernie BC. The cabin is owned and operated by the Fernie Trails & Ski Touring Club who also operates the Tunnel Creek cabin. The skiing was very …
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Lurking Avalanche Dangers
There is powder up there. Way up there. But this is a stressed snowpack. Lurking Avalanche Dangers
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Avalanche Canada Widget Updated
Savage Marketing recently launched Version II of an Avalanche Bulletin Internet widget for Avalanche Canada. Back Country Access (BCA) is sponsoring the latest version. Savage Marketing has launched version II of the avalanche bulletin internet widget in partnership with Avalanche Canadian and sponsored by Back Country Access. A widget is a compact application designed to …
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Effects of electronics on your avalanche transceiver
That electronics can interfere with avalanche transceivers was already known by the more experienced riders. But not every freerider knows that it is not wise to carry for example your cell phone, walkie talkie or GoPro close to your avalanche transceiver. On the ISSW (International Snow Science Workshop) 2014 researchers Ilari Dammert and Erwin Meister …
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Avalanche Safety Equipment Survey
We are looking to develop a product for backcountry users that will solve a need in avalanche safety.
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Tuck in your tail in the Backcountry
This troubled snowpack is not isolated to Golden, be safe and assume it applies to you area.
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Developing Avalanche Scenario
A major responsibility of a public avalanche forecaster is to look at the weather forecast and assess how it will impact the snowpack and avalanche activity. Another part of the job is to look at forecast weather and assess how it might tie in with human behaviour. I’ve got some thoughts on this weekend’s avalanche …
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Early Season Avalanches
The following photos were taken on Tuesday, November 11 on Eagle Pass Mountain in the Monashees near Revelstoke.
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Avalanche Engineers
Avalanche Engineers is the story of two scientists who delve deep into the mysteries of the snowpack to find out how a snowflake becomes an avalanche
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Wayne Flann’s Whistler Avalanche Blog
Wayne Flann’s Whistler Avalanche Blog shares topics on Avalanches in Whistler, the Sea to Sky Corridor and around the Globe. If you are a frequent skier, rider, heli-dropper or sledder who frequents any part of the Sea to Sky backcountry, this is the man you should be listening too when it comes to your safety. …
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American Avalanche Association – A Goal of Zero
Imagine if there were zero avalanche deaths each year—on average, that would mean 28 lives saved in the United States. A group of avalanche safety professionals is making bold attempts to drastically reduce avalanche fatalities in this country and to get there, they’re looking in an unlikely place: a Swedish automobile law from the 1990s. …
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