Category: Banff, AB

April 6, 2015

Clair Isrealson Retires

Thanks for the dedicated service to the health, safety and fun of other mountain folk. You will be missed.
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March 5, 2015

5th Annual Ken Jones Classic Ski Competition

On Saturday, 21 March 2015 LAke Louise is hosting the 5th Annual KEN JONES CLASSIC SKI MOUNTAINEERING COMPETITION. COMING UP! Let’s go while there’s still snow – Last SMCC calendar race of the season! Your race registration includes Saturday race, lifts, and awards, a few new tweaks on the great Lake Louise long course, and …
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November 27, 2014

Charlie Locke bestowed Outstanding Contribution

Charlie Locke returned to Alberta from the ‘Oscars’ of the ski industry – The World Ski Awards – with two prestigious trophies. Lake Louise won Canada’s Best Ski Resort, and Locke was bestowed the tribute of Outstanding Contribution to Ski Tourism for the Americas. “This is the high point of my career,” says Locke, “I …
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September 30, 2014

The Wize Man – Eddie Hunter

‘The Wise Man’ is the emotive story of Eddie Hunter’s personal connection with Banff National Park and Mt. Norquay, a mountain he has called home his entire life
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April 11, 2014

Heli Skiing: The True Canadian Drug?

In “Heli-Skiing Is the Best Drug I Have Ever Taken,” Huffington Post writer Blake Fleetwood waxes poetic on “floating down on clouds of my own creation”
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March 31, 2014

Three survive full burials in Kananaskis

Three backcountry skiers survived after being fully buried by an avalanche for 10 minutes on Sunday.
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