Avalanche Canada extends avalanche warning due to significant snowfall
Avalanche Canada has extended a special avalanche warning until the end of day Thursday, March 7th due to more significant snowfall on top of the snowpack layer that’s been a cause for concern.
Avalanche forecaster Tyson Rettie says as much as 60 centimetres has fallen in the south Rockies over the past couple of days, particularly in the Fernie, B.C. area, a popular destination for southern Albertans.
Just over the weekend another Albertan was caught up in an avalanche and died in the Revelstoke area while snow biking. This follows the previous weekend’s deadly avalanche in southern Alberta’s Castle Wildlife Provincial Park that killed 46-year-old Lethbridge dentist Scott Walburger while he was snowmobiling. He leaves behind a wife and three children in Magrath.
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