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

Low (1)

Valid Sun Feb 16 4:00pm PST 7 hours ago Until Mon Feb 17 4:00pm PST

Assess for new wind slabs as you gain elevation

Small wind slabs could be sensitive to rider traffic due to the underlying weak layers

More Detail

To get the complete forecast with additional graphics and details, please view the Avalanche Canada Zone forecast provided by Avalanche Canada.

Snowpack Discussion

Around 5 cm of new snow has fallen with moderate southerly wind, forming new wind slab on north aspects. In sheltered terrain this new snow may overlie soft, faceted snow or surface hoar. In exposed terrain it will overlie a sun crust or wind-affected snow.

20 to 40 cm overlies a weak layer from late January. In most areas, it is a hard slippery crust, however, on shady, upper-elevation slopes, it may be faceted grains or surface hoar.

The mid and lower snowpack is strong and bonded.

Avalanche Activity

No slab avalanches have been reported in the past 4 days. Skier triggered dry loose avalanches in steep terrain continue to be reported.