Selkirk Wilderness Skiing Weather Forecast

Today's Forecast
Updated at: 4:30pm PDT - Mar 31st 2013

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Temperature (2200m / 7200ft):

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Snow Conditions
  • Conditions as of: Mar 31st 2013
  • New Snow (past 24 hrs):
  • Snow Conditions: Epic corn snow!
  • Snow Depth (2200m / 7200ft): 350cm / 11 ft
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Oxygen Debt
Here is a run that will leave you starved for oxygen if you can ski it top to bottom non stop. That was the feeling of the first group to do so in the late 1980’s, albeit on those crazy...
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Anne’s Run
Named after one of our guests, this is one of the most spectacular runs in the tenure. Starting from near the peak...
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Top Secret
At great potential personal peril, I will divulge some information regarding this run.
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Midnight Bowl
Midnight Bowl is much like a deep freeze storage locker where we keep all of the driest and...
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Egyptian
You will find Egyptian on the top ten list of many of our returning guests...

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Cadillac
Cadillac is one of the premier runs on Lightning Ridge. 2500 vertical feet of shear...
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Bunga Bunga
Named after a joke which one of your guides may or may not be willing to tell you, this run...
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Chuck Your Lunch
I wasn't there when it was named, so I don't know if it really happened, but...
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Hunters Hollow
Named by skiers in a group from an oil exploration company named...
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Reg’s Ridge
Reg's Ridge, tops Allan's list of five favorite runs. Reg's follows...
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Rolling Thunder
This has been a bread and butter run for our skiers since the inception of SWS in 1976. Starting from...
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Sparkie’s Ridge
Forming the southeast flank of Desperado Bowl, Sparkie's Ridge covers the range from...
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The Guides Must Be Crazy
A narrow couloir dropping from a sub-alpine ridge through a rock face...
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TMFT
Where the lines open up below you like an automatic door at the grocery store.
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Turkey Salad
From near tree line, Turkey Salad is a south facing slope with mostly widely spaced trees and a...
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Cascade
Cascade has a right line and a left line. These are two lines that an ordinary person would never...
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Rodeo
Hang onto your hats cowboys! Starting at the A-Frame Ridge below tree line, this bucking bronco ride hugs the creek gully with logs, root wads, boulders and small cliff drops...

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Arnie’s
Arnie's is one of the several lines dropping into John Bowl. The pitch is slightly beyond tame and the...
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Tickety Boo
Originally named for the quality of the snow, Tickety Boo can pile up deep...
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John Bowl
John Bowl forms the headwaters of John Creek in a large open alpine to tree line bowl facing...
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Brenda’s Pitch
If John Bowl is a giant oyster, Brenda's Pitch is a pearl embedded deep in its powdery flesh.
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Yodel
This run is tucked into the lower slopes of John Bowl in such a way that a good, strong Yodel will echo off three or more different...
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Dilettante’s Demise
A dilettante is someone who dabbles in something for his own pleasure?
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Middle Bowl
Middle Bowl was the only developed alpine component of our terrain for the first decade...
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Right of Way and Run Away
Right of Way presents itself first dropping to the left where you plunge through...
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Trinity Chutes
Trinity Chutes consists of three Holy chutes starting high on...
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Gauntlet and Gallows
Two wildly fun couloirs dropping north off the Rolling Thunder ridge into...
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Allan’s Glades
Another one of several runs off Rolling Thunder into...
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McKian Creek
The magic experienced on this line is felt by most.
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Rock Run
Another one of several runs off Rolling Thunder into Beaver Bowl, this has been a source of endless...
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The View Slope
You are about to take on one of our marquee runs, one where...
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Cats Cradle
Cats Cradle is a beautiful wide open bowl facing...
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Outer Limits
Outer Limits is found at the end of the road.
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Bride’s Pyjamas
Starting in the low treeline and pouring down to below treeline, this run is said to be...
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12 O’Clock High
12 O’Clock High is one of the many bowls with an alpine start into open tree line for a finish. There are 2 main...
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Behind the Eightball
One of several below treeline runs fed by John Bowl, this run got its name from a small steep micro-bowl hidden in the forest. Once beyond the micro bowl, the steep...
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Lady Di Ridge
This run was named well before the Princess met her untimely demise. She was sweet and well loved by...
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Alder Ego
Alder Ego is an east facing tree run which was partially selectively logged in the late 1960’s. Regeneration of commercial trees was a little weak back then; however...
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Areba Ridge
Areba Ridge is the south ridge of Meadow Mountain, which swings to the east cradling the southern portion of Middle Bowl. It is home to runs with...
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Cadillac
Cadillac is a premier run on Lightening Ridge. The main part of the run is a luxurious east to northeast facing slope which was burned in...
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Cougar Ridge
Cougar Ridge in its entirety divides the John Creek drainage to the north east, from the McKian Creek drainage...
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Honeymoon Bowl
Honeymoon Bowl was named for a couple who were honeymooning at Selkirk Wilderness Skiing in the early years of skiing this part of the mountain...
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Lightening Ridge
Lightening Ridge is the north east ridge of Meadow Mountain. To the north are precipitously steep slopes into John Creek, and to the south is Thunder Bowl which...
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No Name
What an odd name for a run! This is an east facing run from the A-Frame home to the lodge, through selective logging of the early...
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Over the Hill
No, this isn’t a run for guys too old to ski! You just have to ski over the hill a little bit to get there...
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Porcelain Bowl
Porcelain Bowl is an alpine sub-bowl feature feeding into John Bowl. It is a north-north east facing flusher split from Arnie’s by an unskiable rock...
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Power Surge
Charging down this line on Lightening Ridge, you can sometimes feel the residual surge of power from the lightening strike so many years ago. Perfectly spaced trees...
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Project Huskey
One of the premier runs on Lightening Ridge, Project Huskey is named for a chainsaw project that was undertaken to open up the previously...
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Red Dog Bowl
Red Dog Bowl is named after a man (Red Dog) who provided helicopter access to the bowl in the early 1980’s before there was any snowcat pickup...
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Red Dog Trees
Red Dog Trees is a run in the old growth Spruce and Subalpine Fir forest occupying the western ridge flanking Red Dog Bowl. It faces west to northwest and has...
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Renegade Ridge
Renegade Ridge occupies the south eastern portion of our ski area. It looks down into McKian Creek to the south west, Cooper Creek to the south, Kootenay Lake to...
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Smilies
This was an easy run to name! Smilies starts at treeline, on Areba Ridge facing southwest along the edge of a small sub-bowl. The first part of the run goes through...
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The Honeymoon’s Over
Tucked into a secret spot off the north ridge forming Honeymoon Bowl, this is a run that would definitely signal the end of the honeymoon. There is nothing cuddly about...
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