- Date
- vendredi 28 novembre 2014
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We’ve redrawn the boundaries on two bulletin regions this season.
New Forecast Region Boundaries in Southeastern BC
We’ve redrawn the boundaries on two bulletin regions this season. The Lizard Range bulletin is renamed “Lizard Range and Flathead”. The “South Rockies” keeps its name, but the boundaries have changed.
Check out the brand new Avalanche Canada website http://www.avalanche.ca/ to zoom in and check out the new boundaries and check current conditions.
The old Lizard Range region was very small and much of the terrain was taken up by private ski operations. Additionally, its small size wasn’t in keeping with Avalanche Canada’s regional approach to public avalanche forecasts.
Ahhh the Lizard Range…a small slice of terrain with BIG snow!
As the new name suggests, “Lizard Range and Flathead” now includes the Flathead River drainage, as well as most of the backcountry terrain around the town of Fernie. Riding areas south of Sparwood and west of the divide all the way to the USA border are now part of the “Lizard Range and Flathead” bulletin.
So if you ride areas like Hartley Lake, Coal Creek, Harvey Pass, and Corbin, you will now want to be looking at the “Lizard Range and Flathead” bulletin for your avalanche forecasts. Though these areas don’t have the exact same weather and snowpack as the Lizard Range proper, they share more similarities than differences. For example, more moderate temperatures and higher precipitation amounts with a Southwest storm flow. Of course there are ALWAYS exceptions.
Near Barnes Lake-now part of the “Lizard Range and Flathead” bulletin region.
The new “South Rockies” region is now slightly smaller, and covers riding areas north of Sparwood to Kananaskis, west to the Bull River drainage, and east into Alberta, including the Crowsnest area both north and south of Highway 3.
Crossing Creek Area near Elkford-still part of the “South Rockies” bulletin region.
The South Rockies field team will be gathering avalanche, weather and snowpack observations for both forecast regions this winter. We won’t be starting field work until mid December so if you have observations or conditions updates that might help the avalanche forecasters in Revelstoke, please send them an e-mail at forecaster@avalanche.ca or give them a call at 250 837 6405.
See you out there!
Jennifer Coulter