Low hazard still requires good decision making, especially in committing terrain. Remain cautious around cornices, shallow rocky alpine slopes or terrain where a small sluff or a thin wind slab avalanche could have large consequences.
Fernie
British Columbia • Canada
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Last 5 Days
Resort reported at Sunday Jan 24 @ 7:56am PST
Snowfall History
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Current Weather
10°F
Temperature
5mph
Wind Speed
Mid-Mtn at
Sunday Jan 24 @ 2:10pm PST
Terrain
81%
Area Open
115 of 142
Trails Open
9 of 10
Lifts Open
81"
Base Depth
Hard Pack
Resort reported at Sunday Jan 24 7:56am PST
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Snow report provided by SnoCountry
Daily Snow Forecasts
British Columbia
Storm on track for the South Coast Sun-Mon
Updated 5 hours ago
A cold storm will impact the South Coast on Sunday and Monday with the deepest totals expected across Vancouver Island and the North Shore Mountains. A back-to-back series of storms will also impact Southern BC on Wednesday and Thursday favoring the Kootenay Boundary & South Okanagans, and to a lesser extent the North Shore Mountains and Vancouver Island. Freezing levels will remain low.
US and Canada
Upcoming pattern favors the Southwest
Updated 2 days ago
The storm track will shift south over the next 5-7 days with heavy snow expected across Utah, Arizona, and the San Juans in Colorado, while Tahoe will start to pick up some good snow starting on Monday and continuing through much of next week. In the East, snow showers will continue across New England on Friday-Saturday, followed by a storm that will impact the Mid-Atlantic on Monday-Tuesday.
Avalanche Forecast
Avalanche Forecasts are for use by experienced backcountry travelers in uncontrolled sidecountry and backcountry terrain. These forecasts and conditions do not apply to open, in-bounds terrain at ski resorts, which is subject to avalanche control by local resort ski patrol.
Snowpack Discussion
Alpine and upper treeline terrain is heavily wind affected with large regions of scoured surfaces, pockets of soft wind transported snow and pockets of hard wind slab in lee regions or ridge crests. A hard crust is found below 1900 m and increases in thickness with lower elevations. Surface hoar and near-surface faceting continues to develop with cold clear temperatures and is slowly softening these various hard surfaces and also weakening the bonds of cornices.
A solid mid-pack sits above buried crust and facet layers near the bottom of the snowpack (150-200 cm deep). These deeper weaknesses are currently unreactive, but have periodically produced large avalanches in alpine terrain during intense storms.
Avalanche Activity
No recent avalanches have been observed. However, cornices are growing fragile with continued cold conditions faceting their bonds. Cornices represent a significant hazard underfoot when travelling along ridge crests as well as when they threaten slopes overhead.
More Details
To get the complete forecast with additional graphics and details, please view the Lizard Range and Flathead forecast provided by Avalanche Canada.
