Rogers Pass Conditions

[Hugh Jass]

I'll be there late this week into next. Sounds like its been dry and warm. I've seen the CAC reports on avy conditions, but I'm mainly interested in whether soft snow exists, or if it's all been baked into hardpack.

Can anyone give me a better sense of snow conditions?

[RegCT]

I'm curious too....going to be around there early next week.

[hop]

I was at GCHS today, so just north of the pass.

There is soft snow to be had on aspects that weren't getting direct sun, but it was the scariest snowpack I've ever seen.

We got a sympathetic class 2 slide to go below us while we were digging a pit. Lots of other people were getting things to move as well just by stepping near ridges, or making subtle ski cuts, or looking at things with intent to ski.

YMMV.

[LeeLau]

Read the MCRs available from the acmg.ca website

[Hugh Jass]

We did Lookout Col up the Illecillewaet on 2/28. Epic day. Twitchy snowpack. Obtaining beta from the visitors center and downgrading your ambitions are key. Have fun!

[BC_Mike]

We did Lookout Col up the Illecillewaet on 2/28. Epic day. Twitchy snowpack. Obtaining beta from the visitors center and downgrading your ambitions are key. Have fun!

I toured the week before up the Lily Traverse, the Bonny, Lookout Col, Loop Brook etc. and found the top 20cm super twitchy and a decent surface hoar developing under the blue sky. Grizzly Shoulder was pure shit with thick crust, but the Illecillewaet stuff was pretty good on several aspects. Other side of the hwy was more insane and we didn't try for fear of repeating the Class 2's Lee's posse was setting off earlier in the season ;-p