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With Parks Canada and Alberta Parks, the Canadian Avalanche Centre is working on a revision of public avalanche bulletins. The idea is for there to be a greater emphasis on graphics, and less on text. The link below takes you to a short (5 minute) survey where you can view the proposed graphics...

With Parks Canada and Alberta Parks, the Canadian Avalanche Centre is working on a revision of public avalanche bulletins. The idea is for there to be a greater emphasis on graphics, and less on text. The link below takes you to a short (5 minute) survey where you can view the proposed graphics...

Fernie area update March 18: https://www.snowandmud.com/forum/f8/southeast-bc-avy-warning-47003.html#post1102671

The Canadian Avalanche Association and Canadian Avalanche Centre are currently conducting a study to learn more about the effectiveness of avalanche balloon packs. We are therefore very much interested in information about the use of avalanche balloon packs in avalanche involvements. If you...

You say you have some great photos??!! Each month we are giving away a Yamaha Gear Bag worth $300 for the best photo in each of the categories below: February -Terrain: Shots of your favorite places. March - Avalanches:Images of the white dragon itself! April - Retro: If you have some old...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

Just a quick heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for this region. Natural avalanches will likely taper off after the storm, but slides could be easily triggered by riders in many areas. The good weather will be a draw, but the...

This is a heads up to let you know the Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning. Regions affected: North Columbias south of Valemount South Columbias Kootenay Boundary South Coast The main concern is that the metre or so of snow has fallen on a weak interface...

CAC wishes to extend a big thank you to Bow Cycle South for raising over $400 for public avalanche safety programs. Thanks!

Hi folks, The conditions that led to the past several accidents in BC are not going away! We are going into a period where the avalanches will be getting fewer and fewer in frequency but getting generally bigger and more destructive. The bulletin may even go down in danger. Please read the...

Hi folks, The Canadian Avalanche Centre has posted pictures of avalanches from the past two weeks - see: February - March 2010 : Avalanche Image Galleries : Library : Canadian Avalanche Centre : avalanche.ca A picture is worth a thousand words. Read the bulletin, Discuss what you will and...

Hi folks - just wanted to touch base from the Canadian Avalanche Centre Current avalanche conditions are still really tricky. We have lots of reports of avalanches on low angle terrain and close call surprises. We have therefore decided to issue a special avalanche warning again for the weekend...

Unfortunate news - we want to post this link as we expect similar conditions that resulted in this incident to continue through the weekend. Avalanche Incident Report: 2/14/2010 : Bewes Creek / Crazy Creek area - Regional Discussion Forums Canadian Avalanche Centre Public Avalanche Forecasters

Unfortunate news - we want to post this link as we expect similar conditions that resulted in this incident to continue through the weekend. Avalanche Incident Report: 2/14/2010 : Bewes Creek / Crazy Creek area - Regional Discussion Forums Canadian Avalanche Centre Public Avalanche Forecasters

Hi Folks, The 2009-10 season has been fairly safe from avalanche conditions up until now. This situation is changing as we move into the second half of the winter season. The month of January was not kind to the upper layers of the snowpack, and as new snow accumulates on top of the weak...

Thanks to Snow and Mud for a great Mountain Mania event at Boulder Mountain in Revelstoke! It was fantastic for the Avalanche Centre to be presented with proceeds from the event in the amount of $1000 through the generous efforts of the folks at Snowandmud.com and Grassland Trailer & Skidoo...