British Columbia Backcountry Report: Beautiful Crusty Powder On High On The Last Day Of Our BC Trip Report from January 29, 2025 Yesterday was our final backcountry ski day in British Columbia, Canada. For now… We skied 20 of 28 days in the backcountry and got in 7 ski days at Revelstoke and 1 at Kicking Horse. I totaled 65,800-vertical-feet climbed and 161-traveled in the backcountry. I’m truly exhausted… Yesterday we ventured into a completely new zone […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 30, 2025 1 Comment
British Columbia Backcountry Report: “Eagle Chute” on 9,337′ Eagle Peak Report from January 25, 2025 We finally gathered the courage to go deep into the alpine in British Columbia yesterday. I don’t generally dare to fly there in January because there are usually persistent weak layer issues this time of year. Right now, the snowpack is pretty locked up. Eagle Chute on 9,337′ Eagle Peak called to us. So we […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 28, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Eating Sh$% Trying To Ski Invisible Pillows in Canada Report from January 20, 2025 On Monday we couldn’t decide what to do. I’d gone backcountry skiing 15 of the past 19 days and was simply exhausted. We decided to go for the same pillows I’d skied on January 12. It took 4 hours to get to them and we had a few options and none of them looked right. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 23, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing Powder On A Gorgeous BC Nose, Triggering a Micro-Avalanche, Surfing A Wind-Lip , & Jumping in Donger-Land Report from January 22, 2025 Yesterday we needed to ski in the sun. 7ºF as we left the car (for the 5th backcountry day in a row). Even though it’s been uniquely sunny this month in BC, it’s still tough to actually ski in the sun due to the low snow angle and small amount of skiable terrain that actually […] Backcountry Miles Clark | January 23, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: 3,600-Vertical-Foot Powder Run = Our Longest Run of the Year Report From January 19, 2025 We talked Axel, the hut keeper from our BC hut trip in early January, into showing us around the BC backcountry on Sunday. We chose an obscure zone that doesn’t see many tracks. We jogged along in the sun and couldn’t resist doing a mini-lap on the spiney-thinger zone on the way up. The snow […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing A Classic Zone In Powder & Filtered Sunshine Report from January 18, 2025 On Saturday we decided we needed to ski in the sun. 7ºF at the car. To be clear, it’s kinda once in a lifetime here right now with clear skis and low avalanche danger in January. This is a rare combination here. We ran into an old friend in the parking lot and changed our […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 21, 2025 0 Comments
84-Mile Bugaboos to Rogers Pass Traverse, BC Crushed in 53.2 Hours, Setting New Fastest Known Time Greg Hill, Adam Campbell, and Andrew McNab just set a new fastest known time on the Bugaboos to Rogers pass ski traverse, completing the entire trip in 53.2 hours. The previous record was set by Troy Jungen, Douglas Sproul, and Jon Walsh in 2005 with a time of eighty hours. Hill’s party crushed the previous record by almost thirty hours. […] Industry News Miles Wong | April 29, 2021 0 Comments
Trespassing Backcountry Skiers Cause Closure of Major Rogers Pass Ski Area A popular backcountry ski area off Rogers Pass, BC, has been temporarily closed after skiers were witnessed entering an adjacent prohibited area. Related: The Importance of Understanding the Winter Permit System on Rogers Pass, BC Backcountry skiers were seen entering the winter prohibited area Macdonald West Shoulder on December 3rd, 2020. The next day Parks Canada temporarily closed NRC Gully trailhead […] Backcountry SnowBrains | December 7, 2020 0 Comments
Early Season Snowpack at Rogers Pass, Near Revelstoke, BC, is 300-400% of Average Weather stations in Glacier National Park are reporting that there is way more snow on the ground than normal for this time of year. This morning, there was a 19″ snowpack at 4,300-feet on Rogers Pass, an hour from Revelstoke, BC. The average of the last 54-years is 5″. Slightly higher, at 6,200-feet, the current snowpack is 43″, compared to […] SnowBrains | October 30, 2020 0 Comments
Huge Avalanche Blocks Rogers Pass, BC Between Revelstoke and Golden Highway 1 over Rogers Pass, BC was closed in both directions for most of Monday due to a massive avalanche that blocked the highway. Related: COVID-19 Pandemic Forces Avalanche Canada to Stop Forecasting Early The pass, in Glacier National Park between Revelstoke and Golden, closed at 1 pm and reopened almost 14-hours later. The area received more than 8″ of […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 1, 2020 0 Comments
Revelstoke, BC Storm Cycle – POWpocalypse and More Snow Incoming [arve url="https://vimeo.com/380392235"] Lee Lau | December 19, 2019 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
Rogers Pass, BC 2019 Winter Permit, Update and a New Map! Revelstoke! Once thought of as a stop on Canada’s east-west TransCanada Highway, its name has become synonymous with deep snowpacks and skiing. Located just an hour east of “Revy” is Rogers Pass — aka backcountry skiing heaven. Related: The Importance of Understanding the Winter Permit System on Rogers Pass, BC This article provides you with some basic information about the […] Industry News Lee Lau | December 13, 2019 1 Comment
Canada Installs the World’s Largest Avalanche Detection System The largest and most extensive avalanche detection network in the world has been installed in Glacier National Park. The $3-million structure was installed over the past year in Rogers Pass, a high mountain pass in Glacier. Designed by the Swiss, it uses two technologies to detect avalanches. One system involves 13 infrasound panels that sense low-frequency sound while the other uses […] Avalanche Emily Crofton | December 6, 2019 0 Comments
Canadian National Park to Get World’s Largest Avalanche Detection System The famous Trans-Canadian Highway running through Glacier National Park and Roger’s Pass has long been a popular ski-touring destination and one of the most avalanche prone roadways in the world. With approximately 134 known avalanche paths within 42 km of roadway, the Canadian Parks Service has long struggled to mitigate risk. As part of an $18-million project, state of the art […] Avalanche Adrian Dolatschko | June 7, 2019 0 Comments
B.C. Trip Report: Roger’s Pass, Eagle Pass, Revelstoke, Kicking Horse! This past week my wife and I headed up to B.C. to sample the goods. We rolled into Revelstoke Friday afternoon, unloaded the truck, and got to bed for an early start the next morning. Temperatures were quite warm, but I still had my fingers crossed that we’d find good snow. Saturday we headed to the Roger’s Pass Discovery Center […] Trip Report Mike Lavery | March 29, 2019 0 Comments
Rogers Pass, BC Trip Report: Skiing off Rogers Peak – Rogers Pass Highest Run Report from January 29, 2019 Laurent and I were driving up Rogers Pass once again, this time to conquer a titan, Rogers Peak in Glacier National Park. From the top of its 3185 meters, this imposing mountain, the neighboring saw-tooth shaped Swiss Peak and bizarre Mt Tupper dominated the horizon. This area of Glacier National Park reminded me of a […] Trip Report Olivier Denis-Larocque | February 8, 2019 0 Comments
Rogers Pass, BC Backcountry Report: Gargantuan Pillows Report from January 20th, 2019 When skiers think of British Columbia’s mountains, they think of big terrain, deep snow, thick clouds, but most importantly… Gargantuan pillows. That is exactly what Duncan and I hoped for on the 45-minute drive from Revelstoke to Rogers Pass. As we were approaching our destination, I glanced at the side of Highway 1. The pillows […] Conditions Report Olivier Denis-Larocque | January 21, 2019 0 Comments
Rogers Pass Backcountry Report: Mt Green Summit Report from January 15th, 2019 I’ve been contemplating this mission for over two years. Laurent (@laurent.saulnier), Inuk (@inuk_morissette) and I ventured into the Rogers Pass Loop Brook area with one objective in mind: skiing off Mt Green’s Summit. From the top of its 2692m, this behemoth of a mountain towers over the Trans-Canadian Highway. Due to its enormous size, the […] Conditions Report Olivier Denis-Larocque | January 18, 2019 0 Comments
Trip Report: 8812 Bowl @ Roger’s Pass British Columbia Many times I’ll meet keen travelers in Revelstoke, and Roger’s Pass will come up in conversation. I guess it’s lore has been growing recently; multiple times, folks who haven’t been there have heard it was “the best ski touring” in North America: Just so, my friends, just so. Located between Golden and Revelstoke in Glacier Park, B.C., there are simply no comparable areas in […] Conditions Report Sergei Poljak | January 4, 2017 0 Comments
Skier & Snowboarder Caught & Partially Buried in Avalanche Off Rogers Pass, B.C. on Sunday One skier and one snowboarder were caught in an avalanche off Rogers Pass, B.C., Canada on Sunday. The avalanche occurred on Bruins Ridge in the Connaught drainage in Glacier National Park at about 2:30pm on Sunday, Nov. 8th, 2015. The avalanche is reported to have been large at 1,600-feet wide, 20-40 inches deep, and it ran for around 3,000-feet. The […] Avalanche SnowBrains | November 10, 2015 0 Comments
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