Chilliwack, BC

British Columbia Canada

Forecast Point 39 ft • 49.1577, -121.9514

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

Moderate (2)

Warning! This is an outdated forecast.

Valid Wed Dec 21 4:00pm PST 1 year ago Until Thu Dec 22 4:00pm PST

If pushing into bigger terrain continue to assess for cohesive, wind slabs on the surface. Recent snow may still need time to bond to the underlying layers.

More Detail

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Snowpack Discussion

Roughly 50 cm of low-density snow has fallen since Sunday. The new snow is generally light, loose, and unconsolidated. in sheltered northerly terrain, recent snow has buried a weak layer of surface hoar over a melt-freeze crust.

The mid and lower snowpack generally well settled and bonding.

At treeline the snowpack depth generally is 100 to 170 cm.

Avalanche Activity

A small slab overlaying a crust was triggered from a short distance away on Tuesday, as reported in this MIN report.

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