People are being urged to stay out of the backcountry or use extra caution in the area, and to be on alert for shifting conditions.

The agency said "a barrage of intense storms" was forecast to dump between 40 cm and a metre of snow in the area around Whistler and to the west and south.

The BC Coroners Service said it was investigating the deaths of two men in their early 20s from Haines, Alaska.

It was a very close call for a players of the International Hockey Academy Midget Prep team Sunday afternoon. Their bus was nearly caught in the middle of a small avalanche.

STARS responded to an avalanche call in B.C. on Monday.

Fernie Search and Rescue crews were busy on Sunday with two rescues in the Rocky Mountains. 

Statistics posted by Avalanche Canada show the death is the fourth in B.C. this year.

A man from Calgary died and his son is missing and presumed dead, after an avalanche caught the two snowmobilers near Invermere in southeastern BC over the weekend.

There are renewed pleas for outdoor enthusiasts to stay out of the B.C. backcountry after an avalanche hit an out of bounds area in Whistler on Sunday.

The skier killed in an avalanche in B.C.'s Callaghan Valley has been identified by friends as 33-year-old Corey Lynam. He leaves behind a wife and a young son.