Avalanche Info

Sarah Burke 1982 - 2012

Sarah Burke

Groundbreaking Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke passed away at 9:22AM January 19, 2012 at the University of Utah Hospital from injuries sustained in an accident on the Eagle Superpipe at Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Read More →

Stewart BC Avalanche control

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Check out the video of avalanche control near Stewart, BC this past weekend. Pretty spectacular results! In order to reduce the danger of unexpected avalanches in the pass it’s sometimes necessary to initiate a controlled avalanche, sometimes with spectacular Read More →

Kye Peterson Rip's Revelstoke

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Kye Peterson won the Revelstoke Freeride/Freeskiing World Tour Today. The Mackenzie Face was prime and the word is that the boys and girls threw down and went big. The longest running and most prestigious competitive big mountain skiing tour Read More →

Dismal or Epic Powder Season?

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Where can you find ample snow and good skiing? Well those who consistently have great snow have it and the others are suffering. Whistler just experienced 72cms in the past 7 days. Terrace reports the the deepest snow on Read More →

Powder Highway Ski Bum Winner

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Kate Eidger is this year’s lucky recipient of the 2012 Powder Highway Contest. As you can see by the following video, this girl eats, sleeps and breathes powder! We can only imagine that three months of shredding BC’s best Read More →

Avalanche

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by Jon Turk Over the Holiday season, a sequence of storm pulses brought much needed snow – and two avalanche fatalities – to British Columbia. On Thursday, Dec 29, a 30 year old pro-patroller from Whistler was killed by Read More →

Avalanche Danger Very High

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Skiers both in backcountry and in-bounds areas are advised to use extreme caution this week as the avalanche danger soars. Both backcountry and in-bounds skiers face heightened avalanche dangers this week, according to the latest bulletins from the Canadian Read More →

La Nina Holidaying in Terrace

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La Nina spent the holidays here at her home in Terrace. Over the past four days she blessed them with well over 1.5m of new snow and it’s deep up there! Northern Escape helicopters arrive in a few days Read More →

Stay Safe This Christmas

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If you want to ride safely over the Christmas holidays, you’ll need to do some work to get a handle on conditions and you’ll need to stay on top of things as the next cycle of stormy weather progresses. Read More →

Bad Snow at Christmas Time

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By Jon Turk Babushka (Grandmother) Daria Moolynaut was born in a reindeer skin tent on the tundra in northeast Siberia about 107 years ago, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II. Her father was a reindeer herder; her mother Read More →

Shames: My Mountain Co-Op

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Shames Mountain, the ‘little ski area that rocks’, tucked away near Terrace BC, is up for sale. The asking price? A cool $1.5 million. When locals were faced with loosing their ski area a community initiative was started – Read More →

Rest in Powder

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Rest in Powder is an independent snow film about a group of friends from the Kootenays. In the film they are skiing and snowboarding in their favorite zones, in the mountains, in powder. The film is a visual narrative Read More →

Bruce Jamieson's Avalanche Research Saving Lives

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Understanding why, how and when avalanches are likely to occur is critical to keeping people safe in Canada’s mountains. Communicating safety tips and risk updates to skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers is essential to saving lives. Dr. Bruce Jamieson, Natural Read More →

Life in a Ski Town

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by Jon Turk Recently, I was asked to give a talk at the high school in Darby, Montana, at the epicenter of one of the most politically right wing, tea party activist populations in the United States. “Oh Boy,” Read More →

Mount Cain Opening Day Dec 10

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Mount Cain will be opening this Saturday December 10th. They have a 140cm mid mountain base with good early season conditions. The forecast looks like sun through the weekend so everyone can enjoy the opening day full moon after Read More →