5 Best Low Avalanche Hazard Routes

During high avalanche hazards, what are your five favorite routes to ski?

I know it might be tough to give up your favorite stash, but this might be a great place for skiers to look for a safer alternative.

Thanks

Jim

Loup Loup Ski Bowl, Methow Valley Trail  cross country system, cross county ski touring around my local non-avy terrain.

All other routes that I ski in the BC have some terrain that needs to be avoided because of avalanche concerns. It would be irresponsible of me to give these locations because I do not know the ability of the persons who would go there.

Let me clarify.  Backcountry routes.  All routes have some Avy Danger.  By your reasoning, no one should post any trip reports since you do not know the ability of the person reading the trip report.  I was hoping we would get a productive discussion going about safer alternatives - Not no risk alternatives.

Let me clarify.  Backcountry routes.  All routes have some Avy Danger.  By your reasoning, no one should post any trip reports since you do not know the ability of the person reading the trip report.  I was hoping we would get a productive discussion going about safer alternatives - Not no risk alternatives.

IMHO, no one should post their "safe" routes for when avy danger is high or extreme; the route itself often depends on very local knowledge and experienced route finding and willingness to abandon the route given signs of avy danger.

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This is interesting. I have to agree that even the safest routes might not be safe on a given day. For example, the Phantom slide went the valley. You could have been sitting in the maintenance parking lot that morning, a typically safe route (lol), and been killed.

During high avalanche hazards, what are your five favorite routes to ski?

I know it might be tough to give up your favorite stash, but this might be a great place for skiers to look for a safer alternative.

Thanks

Jim

During periods high avalanche hazard I will lift ski, xc ski or ride my bike. I'm definitely not the gnarliest skier -- but I've backcountry skied since '71 without injury.