Guides, tips, and updates for BC backcountry skiers.
Search and rescue teams are being called out for trips planned with AI chatbots. How seriously we take that, how we test our AI chat, and what we switched off on purpose.
Read →Last winter's bulletins and weather, every day, on 39 backcountry slopes from the North Shore to Rogers Pass. Height mattered most, aspect was rarely an escape on the coast, and 18 of 19 weekends had at least one slope quiet on the avalanche list with good weather.
Read →The coarse search for your day: where the colours come from, how each region's numbers are worked out from five weather points, and what the map can't see.
Read →The science, the data and the full winter of testing behind the new Snowpack tab: SLF's SNOWPACK model, Environment Canada's weather, and how we checked it against Avalanche Canada's bulletins, their own model and 85 snow stations.
Read →Snow Doctor, SpotWx, Avalanche Canada, Snow-Forecast, Windy, and Mountain-Forecast, compared honestly across every feature that matters for backcountry safety decisions, with a recommended Friday-night workflow.
Read →An avalanche list that only takes points away, and a weather score you set yourself, never added together. Every rule and every number.
Read →One storm, one crew, one Saturday: compare regions on the snow map, read the 4 PM bulletin, check it against field reports and the simulated snowpack, and decide with your crew.
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