New Skis for Christmas
There are two kinds of skiers in this world. Those who receive new skis for Christmas, and those who don’t.
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Category: Jon Turk
Mumbo Jumbo
So you’re ripping down a groomer, cross your tips and crash head first into the snow – and it’s akin to dunking your head into the toilet bowl.
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The Dalai Lama Doesn’t Ski on Cyber Monday
As far as I know, the Dalai Lama isn’t a true powder hound
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Jon Turk and Erik Boomer discuss their Ellesmere circumnavigation
After 1,495 miles and 104 days of skiing, walking, crawling, carrying, and occasionally paddling their boats through the high Canadian Arctic
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K-2 Skis
“You know, you’ll never meet a ‘nice Jewish girl’ playing hockey. Ski bunnies,” she explained emphatically, to be sure that I got the point. “Skiing is about ski bunnies.”
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Chasing Avalanches with South Rockies Field Techs
When I showed up at their office at 8:00 AM, Gord told me that there had been a large avalanche at Crossing Creek and we had to go make some observations.
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Canadian Avalanche Centre Bulletins
“You call being an avalanche forecaster work? All you do is go back country skiing every day with your partner Dave and tell us how good it was.”
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Avalanche
Over the Holiday season, a sequence of storm pulses brought much needed snow – and two avalanche fatalities – to British Columbia.
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Bad Snow at Christmas Time
I reminisce, not necessarily because it is Christmas, but because Moolynaut died a few weeks ago.
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Life in a Ski Town
So I prepared a thinly disguised version of Dr. Timothy Leary’s “Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out” mantra of the hippie era.
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Adventurer of the Year
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 what to expect. Last year Alex Honnold was nominated for climbing big walls in Yosemite without …
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