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La Nina Next Winter
The endless cycle of changing weather patterns continues to decide a powder skiers fate. The great news for powder skiers is that we can mourn a powerful El Nino and welcome a rapidly developing La Nina! A key index of the tropical Pacific used to determine whether we are in El Nino or La Nina …
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Wolverine Avalanche Rescue
Watch Jasper the avalanche Wolverine rescues an avalanche victim, is this the future of avalanche rescue? Jasper is an orphaned wolverine raised by humans. Casey gets buried in a snowdrift… only to get pulled out by a tenacious wolverine.
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Avalanche Lab
You see an avalanche, you ski over to the crown and pull out your iPhone. You snap a photo, measure the slope angle and aspect, then record a crown profile, all on your phone. As you ski down the path, you use your phone as GPS to map the slide. When you get to the …
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BC Snowpack Hits Record Low
April did not deliver the snow cycles that powder skiers have enjoyed in previous years.
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Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose: In the Avalanche Patch
"Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose: In the Avalanche Patch by Bruce Kay" Book Review
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Avalanche Canada Spring Icon
This icon conveys the variable nature of avalanche danger at this time of year.
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Whistler Blackcomb Renaissance
Whistler Blackcomb Renaissance is the most progressive investment in our history and will leverage our tremendous success building our non-ski business
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Photographer Dustin Lalik
With storm after storm of Kootenay Coldsmoke, Dustin’s learning curve has been steep with plenty of new challenges and amazing experiences.
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Avalanche Canada Special Warning
Given that many slopes have yet to see a full-blown warm up we are predicting a widespread and varied array of avalanche problems this week including cornice failures, surface-layer avalanches, and failure on deeper persistent weak layers
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Powder Alert for Castle Mountain
What impresses me with this story is local ownership. The skiers and boarders own Castle Mountain, could it be any better!
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For the Love of Our Clients
The allure of wilderness skiing for work is obvious. It is a promise of a lifetime of powder turns where your job is to always go first, without question.
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