A variable and complex snowpack
This is not a time to let your fun-meter over-ride your smart-meter.
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Tag: powder skiing
John Eaves – Valemount Powder Dec 29th
John Eaves was brought up by skiing legends (his mother, Rhoda Wurtele, and aunt, Rhona Wurtele, were Canada’s first Olympic female skiers), he won a combined six World Championships in two different freestyle skiing disciplines, went to Woodstock (and still plays a mean riff on lead guitar), and had stints as a British Secret Service …
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Backcountry Rescue
The avalanche and initial seconds of a rescue attempt were captured on video by another skier in the area
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First Rider Avalanche Victim of Season
Yes, all that snow has created a paradise on the one hand. But Kyle Hale warns us about that nasty other hand
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Tis the season
If I could find some guys who would show me how to tie a sharp rock on the end of a long stick, and take me out on the Siberian steppe to spear a wooly mammoth with my pals
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The First Days of the Season
By Keith Liggett As I sit writing this, bombs go off on the hill. The big bombs can be felt. And quarter-sized snowflakes fall outside window. The day is just starting. I can barely see the snow in the half lit early morning. I am wondering what to do? Yesterday was the first ski day …
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Sweetgrass Productions Wins big at Powder Awards
Valhalla’s Naked Ski Segment is a thing of beauty and could be a large part of their performance at the Powder Awards.
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Best POV Footage at Powder Awards 2013
Here is the video that was shown at the Powder Awards that Dave Treadway won ‘Best POV Footage’ with. He won the award because of the overall footage produced online last year, and this video is just a sample. Dave Treadway Powder Awards 2013 from Dave Treadway on Vimeo.
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Ski buddy sued in Wiegele World death
A widow whose husband died while heli-skiing with Mike Wiegele, says his “ski buddy” is responsible for his death, a BC Supreme Court heard Monday. Elizabeth Kennedy’s husband, Mark, died in January 2009. Mark Kennedy was a founding partner at Denver law firm Wheeler Trigg Kennedy. Kennedy, born in 1952, co-founded the firm in February …
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Thirty Six Years of Ski Bumming
Only, when my boss calls me, it’s usually because he’s asking me to go skiing, not to chastise me for saying something politically inappropriate
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Grant Statham on Ted discussing risk
His presentation provides a framework that will will help us live our lives and deal with risk, probability, consequence, exposure and vulnerability, and how we deal with uncertainty.
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Kananaskis Skier Triggered Avalanche
Not the best news for this time of year...For now we'd advise assessing the snow very carefully and keeping lines conservative.
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