Avalanche Canada: House of Cards
This problem has reared its ugly head in much of western Canada, with avalanches occurring in most of our forecasting regions
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Tag: powder skiing
Heli Skiers & Boarders escape serious injury
This Monday six people escaped serious injury in a dramatic helicopter crash in Whistler’s backcountry. The incident involved a Blackcomb Helicopters Bell 407 that was heli-skiing with clients. The company says the aircraft was in the process of landing when it suffered a “roll over accident.” The helicopter was completely wrecked. Helicopter incidents are common …
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Glacier National Park needs 100% compliance!
These poachers endanger not only their own lives, other groups, and everyone traveling on the highway. People need to respect these closures and stop the poaching.
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The Great Northern Powder Guides Deliver
Good snow conditions, fun terrain and a relaxed staff made for a great time.
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Craig McMorris riding the Freeride World Tour
Craig McMorris is competing in the Golden BC's Freeride World Tour event. BROADCAST TIME for FWT20 Kicking Horse, Golden BC is confirmed SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9 @ 1:00PM LOCAL TIME (MST)
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Craig McMorris & Logan Pehota Receive Golden FWT Wildcards
Craig McMorris and Logan Pehota have received wildcard entries for the Freeride World Tour at Kicking Horse Resort in Golden BC.
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Rethinking “No Friends on a Powder Day”
This level of stoke and selfishness gets people killed as we’ve seen this past weekend in two tree well fatalities that occurred in the Kootenays.
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Burrrlapz | Dont Call it a Comeback
Dylan Siggers and his Fernie tribe made their way to Nelson to play in Whitewater's powder with some impressive local talent.
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Tree Well fatalities and how to avoid
It's snow immersion season — fatalities are happening from people falling into tree wells and sufficiating while skiing and boarding deep powder in our mountains.
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Freeride World Tour applies Gender Equality
Today the FWT announces that men and women athletes will be awarded equal prize money across all categories beginning with the first event of FWT20.
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BC is Going Off!
Several BC resorts received over 150cms of light dry powder this past week, BC is going off—what a start to the new year!
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What to do with a Smartphone in the Backcountry
Smartphones: we all use them, all the time. And yes, even in the backcountry (Instagram!). It’d be too simplistic and even unsafe to just tell people not to bring their phones at all when they head out of bounds, because while their signal does interfere with that of an avalanche beacon within a certain range, …
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