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Avalanche Canada is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users, in effect immediately until the end of the day...
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Ministry of Transportation's Senior Avalanche Officer John Buffery joins Whitewater Ski Resort's Avalanche Forecaster Wren...
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Two years ago I wrote an article for The Avalanche Review publication that appeared in the September 2016 issue. See here for...
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Recreational Backcountry Travellers Urged to Avoid Avalanche Terrain
Avalanche Canada and Parks Canada are issuing a Special Public Avalanche...
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Snow is forecasted for the next few days and with today’s moderate southerly winds and slightly warmer temperatures provides the perfect...
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Hopefully you like things spicy as the avalanche conditions are about to heat up. With surface hoar lingering and growing up to 7cm in some...
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Ensuring that your transceiver and those of everyone in your group is working properly it is important to perform a transceiver check at the...
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BCA's "Backcountry Tour Planning" Video is a great reminder of what to do before you head out on a ski tour.
Here's a few...
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While this video comes to us courtesy of the Utah Avalanche Centre in, well, Utah, there is a lot to be taken away for our own ranged here in...
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Despite your excuses about comfort, weight, and freedom of personal choice, I am sure your mom would want you to wear a helmet every time you go...
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While skiing off piste in Chatel, France, things get very real in a hurry for these guys. When captured on video, these incidents serve to remind...
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March is coming in strong with another big storm cycle upon us. It's forecasted to last into the weekend with 50cm forecasted by...
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Helicopter explosives were used to control the potential danger in Ymir Bowl today and you can see the results in the following video. While...
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Last week we talked about sleeping dragons, this week they are awake.
In this week's Avalanche Conditions Report video you’ll see...
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A Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users has been issued for Friday, February 10th to Monday, February 13th. The...
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North Shore SAR was finally able to rescue a lost skier on Hollyburn Mountain late Sunday afternoon by helicopter long line. Previous news reports...
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WorkSafeBC has recently reminded the employees of backcountry operations to keep an extra close eye on avalanche conditions this month, and...
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The deepening snowpack seems to have some sleeping dragons within it, as Whitewater Ski Patroller's Wren McElroy and Lo Bachand discover. In...
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After two months of "cold" temps in the Kootenays we have just had our first normal storm cycle depositing 40+ cms. This makes for...
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Special Public Avalanche Warning
Jan 19, 2017, Revelstoke, BC: Avalanche Canada is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational...
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German Shepherds are loyal, intelligent dogs, with high energy levels and they can learn to do just about anything. This is why they make such...
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Adam Roberts, a 31-year-old man from Bellingham Washington, was recently killed in an avalanche outside of White Pass Ski Area on Mt. Rainier this...
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Here's the latest Avalanche Conditions Report from Whitewater Ski Resort: 50+ cms has fallen over the last 3 days making the...
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We've had a heap of snow so far this week and it's tempting to rush out and get knee deep into it but be sure you know what's going on...
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Despite the bitterly cold artic air mass that hit the West Kootenays this past week, champagne powder remains light and fluffy anywhere still...
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