You can check the avalanche forecast at avalanche.ca. Avalanche Canada is advising would-be backpackers and hikers to stick to lower-angle slopes and make conservative terrain choices to help mitigate the risk of an avalanche.īackcountry users are also reminded to carry essential rescue gear on them, including a transceiver, probe, and shovel. The special warning will remain in effect through the end of next Monday. The warning extends from the southern boundaries of the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy and Kokanee and Valhalla provincial parks to Williston Lake north of Pine Pass and Mackenzie, B.C. During summer, temperatures can reach above 30 degrees Celsius but at night can dip below zero. “While avalanche danger ratings may start to decrease as the weather improves, there will still be a chance of triggering a large avalanche.” Summer is the most pleasant time to visit, but the weather can drastically change at any moment in Jasper National Park. The air becomes thinner and the vegetation changes form until tree line is reached. This has brought the conditions to a tipping point where dangerous avalanches are likely. A typical guess is a 1.7 degree Celsius drop for every 300 meters of gained elevation. “The storm cycles that hit Western Canada over the past weekend added significant snow on top of an exceptionally weak lower snowpack. “The snowpack is currently in a precarious state,” said Avalanche Canada senior forecaster Simon Horton, in a news release. 5.5-Hour Jasper Wildlife and Waterfalls Tour with Maligne Lake Cruise from Jasper. Additionally, warming temperatures and recent storm cycles have destabilized that weak snowpack, making large, human-triggered avalanches likely. Together, the two parks (plus others nearby), make for an epic Canadian Rockies getaway. Forecasters with Avalanche Canada say that a prolonged cold and dry start to the winter season has helped to create a number of persistent, weak layers in the snowpack along the Rocky Mountains. Located in the western Canadian province of Alberta, Jasper National Park covers an area of more than 4,000 square miles to the northwest of Banff National Park.
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