Web cams first so you can look around.
Whistler-Blackcomb Cams
Chilcotin-Tatla Area
Mt St Helens
3 dozen Pacific Mountain Cams This page takes a while to load
Vancouver Cams
From Above Burrard Bridge excellent cam
Key to Above Burrard Bridge Landmarks (200 kb)
Burrard Bridge Archives
North Shore Mountains from Jericho Beach.
Downtown Vancouver
New Vancouver time-lapse
Bowen Ferry info

Forecasts
Alpine Forecast
Mt. Seymour Alpine 5-day Forecast winter season only
YVR (airport) 5-day Forecast
YVR 24 hr. Trends
Howe Sound Marine Forecast
is this gone? Pam Rocks past 24 hrs.

Surface Maps
N. Pacific
World Surface Map
Choose a LOOP (>0.5 meg) 60-hour predictions
Use these to anticipate when systems will arrive.
Local Tide Chart
Worth visiting during high tides:
Skookumchuck Narrows Current
Wait for above tide & current calculations

Jet Stream
Canada & USA

Satellite Images
Make your own IR loop popup window.
Use the above when there is no sunlight. Click the Build Animation button.
Make your own Visible light loop
When there is sunlight on the Pacific, the visible light images show icefields and other landmarks as well as clouds. Click the Build Animation
GOES-10
Same coverage as above, but GOES-10 animation shows huge a huge animation of the N. Pacific. The file is large and may choke your browser. On dialup go make coffee while this loads.
N. America Colour loop
3-week colour globe

Radar Animation
New Seattle to Sunshine Coast
Environment Can. Radar

Current Avy Bulletins
Don't leave home without it. Take the transceiver, shovel and probe too.
The 2009/2010 season
Recent bulletins for BC
And here is the bad news for this season:
Avalanche Incidents

RELATED SITES WE FREQUENT
New Address Please discover and support the Wilderness Education Program (WildED). Robert has provided some volunteer assistance to this worthy legacy of the work of John Clarke.
Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
Please register and support this service. The information, photo essays and trip reports at this site are fantastic.
The Message Board at ClubTread encourages members to post pictures as well as trip reports. Good discussion here too. Orientated to hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
TelemarkTips News and Forum

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