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)
Choose small, low consequence slopes.
New storm and wind slabs will likely remain reactive to rider traffic.
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
By early morning on December 8th up to 30 cm of new snow may have fallen. This new snow will overlie a variety of surfaces including a sun crust on steep south aspects and Surface hoar on northerly aspects.
The mid snowpack is generally well settled, with an early November crust buried 80 to 130 cm deep.
Snowpack depths taper rapidly below treeline.
Avalanche Activity
At the time of publishing we have not received any reports of avalanches but we suspect that storm slab avalanches have occurred throughout the region.