A favorite little stash in the Southern Selkirks delivered again, with 3 days of ridiculously deep powder skiing. Check out the video of Andrew getting right into it.
Michelle joined us in the search, and psyched herself up for some drops. Check out the video.
I was inspired to create a mascot for the cabin, in solidarity [...]
After delaying our planned departure in order to ski the first 4 runs on an unexpected 23cm powder morning at Red, we headed towards Kootenay Pass to begin a 3 day backcountry cabin trip, but found that an avalanche had closed the highway.
We had no information, so filled in some time skiing the Gas pipeline [...]
My brother Cam and I skied together on Christmas morning. The Red chair opened for the first time this season, the sun was shining on the smooth creamy powder in Poochie’s trees, and only a small crowd of die-hards worked on tracking it out before the clouds rolled in at about 10.30am. One of Cam’s [...]
With 3 days now of skiing on Granite, they’ve all been powder days! Today was smooth, soft and sunny, and I’ve no complaints but that my legs are a little fatigued from all the vertical I’ve been clocking. Rather than waiting around for the Silverlode chair to open, and enduring the 12 minute ride, I’ve [...]
Granite mountain finally opened for lift serviced skiing today. I hiked up to Motherlode early for coffee, breakfast and 2nd chair. The coverage on the upper mountain was pretty good, got a bit thin through the rock-bands, and was an overgrown mess lower down except in the few places where the brushing crew got to [...]
Until recently I wasn’t aware that Retallack had any permanent residents, but Stan and Deb have made it their home, and Stephanie and I were fortunate enough to have Stan give us a guided tour, literally of his backyard. With snowmobile assistance for the first 1500′ we climbed another 2500′ directly up behind the house, [...]
With little fanfare and almost no warning, Red finally opened this morning, and I joined the small crowd who showed up to ride the new Silverlode chair. The chairlift does what it supposed to, and 10cm of new snow made for smooth skiing, but there was no getting around the fact that this is an [...]
With a promising forecast, we made plans the night before, hoping there’d be enough new snow to completely obscure the December 4th crust. After our first run down Blast in knee-deep snow (22cm from the storm), we knew we’d made the right decision, and our crew of snow starved Rosslanders enjoyed a great day of [...]
I had an opportunity to check out conditions in the Wildhorse cat-skiing terrain yesterday. At higher elevations there’s 30cm of light unconsolidated new snow on top of the 10cm thick crust layer. It would have made for great skiing, but we were just snowmobiling on the cat roads.
The day before, a small group of us [...]
Following the rain event on December 3rd and 4th and subsequent cooling, conditions in the Southern Kootenays are thin and solid. Not to be discouraged we’ve kept skiing, enjoying the sunshine, the easy travel, and the impenetrable coverage to ski some more adventurous lines. On Friday, Andrew I skinned up Jumbo and skied down [...]
