With 20cm of new snow in 3 hours on Friday night, 15cm on Saturday night, and another 10cm last night, my days have been a blur of high speed powder runs at Red. The classic lines are all filled in with a mid-winter snowpack – perfect conditions for dropping the Waterfall, floating through the Powderfields, [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 22, 2007
Powder Pillows
I’ve been busy skiing pow at and around Red. Had a couple of sweet runs yesterday, down the Hourglass and Field of Dreams, both creamy and carvable. Didn’t bother taking any pics (poor light) so I’ve posted this sequence of a fat powder pillow line from my last trip at Roger’s Pass.
February 18, 2007
Roger’s Pass
I’m just back from a few days of ski-touring adventure at Roger’s Pass. Andrew and I scored 40cm of new snow, some strenuous trailbreaking with knee to thigh deep penetration, and epic powder skiing. The avalanche danger rated high at all elevations and 40 – 80 cm fractures ripping out all over the place (especially [...]
February 11, 2007
Cold-Rush Wrap.
Over the past few days I’ve had a far more intimate encounter with the Red-bull Cold-rush than I could have anticipated. Despite my unapologetic denouncements of the event, I was engaged to help put in the up-track for the ski-touring portion of the event – actually getting paid to check out the proceedings. Lapping Mt [...]
February 9, 2007
Step Lightly Grasshopper
“When you can walk the rice paper without tearing it, then your steps will not be heard.” -Master Kan
I’ve been focusing on my ski-touring technique these past few days, shortening my stride a little, trying to be as light as possible with each step to maximise efficiency, visualizing the initiation of young grasshopper in Kung [...]
February 8, 2007
Ski Fence = Investment Opportunity?
Apparently it’s been out for a while, but yesterday was the first time I’d seen a new brochure hyping Rossland as quickly becoming the premier location for investment opportunities in western Canada. It looks great, with high quality paper stock, striking photos, and stylish graphic design, but the text is your typical advertising hyperbola and [...]
February 3, 2007
Red-Bull Cold-Rush
The Red-bull Cold-rush is coming to Red. Part ski-touring, big-mountain free-skiing, and slope-style competition. It’s pretty clear that Red-bull’s stated objective: to find the most versatile and best all-around skier, is secondary to the their primary goal of increasing the net worth of their billionaire owner through sales of a carbonated beverage laced with synthetic [...]
February 3, 2007
Mt Cooper
Since traversing through the Goat Range in 1999, I’ve been thinking about going back to Mt Cooper. It stands above the surrounding mountains (10,151ft), an imposing and remote multi-peaked massif with a 6500′ skiable north face. Last Spring Jordy and I we’re repelled by a melted out road, Grizzly tracks and a lightning storm , [...]
