Avalanche Info

Avalanche Field Team has new Sled

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As the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) prepares for the coming season, one of Canada’s leading snowmobile manufacturers has stepped forward to help out. Today, Yamaha-Motor Canada is delivering a new Yamaha Nytro MTX to the CAC, one of the Read More →

Rogers Pass Winter Permit System

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Do you ski tour in Rogers Pass? Make sure to attend a 2011-12 Annual Winter Permit orientation session if you need a permit this year. Revelstoke: November 22 at 7:00 pm at the United Church Golden: November 24 at Read More →

Canadian Avalanche Centre Increases Forecasts

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The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) marks the start of a new season of avalanche forecasts with a new bulletin format and a significant increase in the number of bulletin regions. “These two developments go hand-in-hand,” explains CAC Executive Director Read More →

Backstory: 'The Freedom Chair'

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The story of Josh Dueck and the film that just won ‘Best Film-Mountain Sports’ at the Banff festival. Five hundred dollars. That was the agreement. “I told him, if you ever make it big, write a $500 check to Read More →

TLH Heliskiing Eurocopter B4

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TLH Heliskiing will be one of the only heli-ski operators to fly small groups in the luxurious Eurocopter B4 Helicopter this winter. With more room in the aircraft for guests and all seating facing towards the front, all passengers Read More →

Adventurer of the Year

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Every year, National Geographic nominates ten individuals or teams for the “Adventurer of the Year”. There are skiers and riders, of course, and always a Himalayan climber or two. But then the list goes Gonzo and you never know Read More →

Snowing Every Day in the Monashes!

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It’s been snowing almost every day…Winter has arrived in the Monashees! Monashee Powder Snowcats is anticipating another great season of snowcat skiing and boarding. With the new lodge done and their fun staff, it should be another epic winter. Read More →

Bugaboos to Rogers Pass Ski Traverse

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“Experiences of great intensity — an especial dream, a period of concentrated work, a sudden absorption, maybe a love-affair — have in common that they are unusually real while they last. Yet it is precisely this quality which so Read More →

One Man Play

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One Man Play, by Eric Hjorleifson

Ski Season Coming

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by Jon Turk You can work all your life, retire, and go to the beach — or you can go to the beach. It’s a saying we had back there in those freewheeling days of the sixties, oh, so Read More →

Canadian Avalanche Centre Events

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Each Winter the Canadian Avalanche Centre hosts a number of educational avalanche awareness events. These events are created to help you avoid avalanches like this: Check out an avalanche awareness event near you: Backcountry Avalanche Workshops – Northern Circuit Read More →

Early Season Powder Turns on Blackcomb

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It’s official: La Niña is back. Early October, local pro skiers, Mike Douglas and Callum Pettit, and pro snowboarder, Mercedes Nicoll, had a chance for some pre-season product testing on the Blackcomb Glacier: Powder Turns on Whistler Blackcomb Oct Read More →

Get your skis, snowboards and toques ready

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Get your skis, snowboards and toques ready for this winter. Accuweather.com made the chilling prediction on Monday, saying La Nina, a phenomenon where the sea temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean are cooler than normal, is on Read More →

Jake Blauvelt Shreds Powder

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This is a sweet, powder filled vodeo with snowboarder Jake Blauvelt from 2011. Well worth watching: Jake Blauvelt Video Part 2011 from Jake Blauvelt on Vimeo.

K2 Rolls Out Rolling Stones Skis!

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K2 skis and The Rolling Stones have collaborated to create limited edition Rolling Stones skis. The announcement was made by Tom Bennett, CEO of Bravado, the leading global music merchandising company and a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), Read More →