Last Frontier Heliskiing - Bell 2 Lodge
British Columbia • Canada
Forecast Point 5,863 ft • 57.0192, -129.8076
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.
Avalanche Rating
Considerable (3)
Natural persistent slab avalanche activity has tapered, however a cautious approach is warranted as there is still potential for human triggered persistent slabs.
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Snowpack Discussion
20-40 cm of recent snow is being redistributed by primarily southerly winds. This new snow fell on a widespread layer of large surface hoar crystals, which sits on a crust on solar aspects and at low elevations. This layer has been reactive in recent days where a slab has consolidated above.
A layer of facets, surface hoar and/or a crust from mid-February is buried 50 to 100 cm deep. This layer produced large natural and human-triggered avalanches last week.
The remainder of the snowpack is well consolidated with no concerns at this time.
Avalanche Activity
Recent reports from the past few days indicate wind slab and persistent slab avalanche activity to size 1.5 and 2.5 in the alpine. These were reported as natural and skier triggered, were 20-40 cm deep and were all suspected of running on surface hoar crystals buried early March. A few of these were remotely triggered (from a distance).