Nechako Valley Sporting Association Trail System is a ski area in Canada, at about 674 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 90 cm of snowfall a season, 2,478th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 149th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (119 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2016/17 (55 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (27 and 24 cm on average).
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterlily Lake Trails | 15 km | 94 cm | 2439 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 63% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Canada (79%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 15 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 90 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2016/17 with 55 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 119 cm (2.2 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52