Scheduled daily avalanche forecasts issued by the Canadian Avalanche
Centre’s Public Avalanche Warning Service have now ended. However, due to the
late spring and significant snowpack that still exists in many regions, we’ll be
issuing weekly updates on avalanche conditions until the May long weekend. We’ll
post bulletins for all our
forecast regions
Thursday afternoons, focussing largely on the coming weekend.
Our usual sources of data are shutting down and we need as much information
from the field as we can get. We’d appreciate information from anyone who is
still out in the mountains for the next month or so. We’re operating with a
skeleton crew so the forecasting office in Revelstoke will not be regularly
manned during this time but we’ll monitor
forecaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx so you can
email us there. Even valley bottom, drive-by, or fly-over observations are
welcome.
I’m more or less on call daily until the May long weekend and if you want
to talk in person or have urgent information, please feel free to call me at my
office: 250-837-2141 ext 227 or on my mobile: 250-814-3756.
Have a great spring. If you are in the Okanagan next week, check out the
agenda for the
CAA/CAC Annual
Spring Conference. Thursday and Friday sessions are open to the
public.
Karl Klassen
Mountain Guide
Canadian Avalanche Centre, Public Avalanche Warning
Service Manager
Revelstoke