With all the events of the past week I have been keeping pretty mellow with my snowy adventures. Did venture out for an overnight birthday hangout last week into the rockies. Brought the skis and boards, but with the combinations of crusts, heat and generally sketchyness we never applied them to snow. Did have a great time in the sunshine and even managed to remotely trigger a size 2 on a NE aspect from the ridgeline. It was pretty sweet, we were approaching the slope from the top on sleds to check out the fracture line from mid storm ( it seemed most things had run at some point during the storm last weekend) then a solid "whump" and off she went. We were about 10m back from the slope when it began to block up and slide. The crown was upto 60cms deep where it had not slid previously and then fractured across the slope and re-slid on the old bed surface at about 20-30cm deep. Awsome event to watch from a safe spot. Mellow is the name of the game right now. Photo by Granter

Took some of Sherriff's advice in the previous post and got up high in the Rockies to get a view, a sun burn and ski a little wind sift on a classic rockies line. The facets below tree-line were a little heinous though. Ahhh the Rockies...

Don't give up on her yet out there! With the world falling apart to the west of us we headed into the Rockies this week to do some adventuring...and while we were at it we even slayed some POW! Had an amazing day touring on a glacier and climbing a peak that gave us spectacular views of mt. Columbia, the icefields and all the top peaks as far as the eye could see. Took some visitors out that were completely blown away by the terrain, which always helps pump up the stoke factor for the group...even in our own backyard. Didn't see much for very recent avalanche activity other then the odd size 1 to 1.5 coming out of steep features with daytime warming. Great day in the mountains...keep shreddin and bag some peaks!

Ryan Johannessen submitted these photos of a remote triggered slide in Quartz Creek on Feb. 8th. The slide was triggered from above by a sled on the ridge. Ran on the December 29 surface hoar layer with an average crown depth of 50-80cms. Ryan estimated the slide to be a size 3. Nobody was involved.

The CAA has been rating the danger to be moderate in the Purcells with the caveat that if a slide is triggered it will be large. This is a good scary reminder! View more photos here.