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)
Assess for newly formed slabs before committing to consequential terrain.
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
Anywhere from 5 to 30 cm of snow will accumulate by Thursday afternoon with southwest wind. This snow will build on the 15 to 30 cm of snow that accumulated since Saturday. All this snow sits on a hard melt-freeze crust.
A couple weak layers of surface hoar and/or faceted grains associated with a crust from late January and mid February may be found 40 to 60 cm deep.
The remainder of the snowpack is strong.
Avalanche Activity
We haven't received any recent reports of avalanche activity. Looking forward, treat the new snow with caution, particularly if you find more than 15 cm of new snow.