Airy Mountain – TR

Airy Mountain – 2562m
It’s about 3.5 hrs skinning on a logging road in from Passmore to the base of Airy Mountain. Not something I’d want to do every day, but the sun was shining, and at arelaxed pace, it was pretty enjoyable. With our early start Andrea, Kirk and I actually reached the base of [...]

Nelson Range – TR

Kootenay Pass – It hasn’t dumped for a while, but there’s still plenty of great powder skiing to be had if you’re prepared to get out and explore. Andrew’s buddy Kirk was visiting from Vermont for his annual BC ski fix, and Tyler hadn’t been touring for ever, so we headed into the Nelson Range [...]

Mt Payne – TR

Sandon – Sandon is a unique little end of the road ghost town surrounded by steep snowy peaks. A few people call the place home through the winter, and the backcountry skiing is incredible. We followed Gary’s lead up and out of town, linking together old mining roads up into the alpine.

Francois on Mt Payne [...]

Mt Brennan – TR

Francois and the gals, Mt Lyle in the background - Skiing Mt Brennan is one of the truly classic ski tours in the Kootenays. It’s a massive 6000′  vertical from Retallack to the summit, but with good visiblity and easy trail breaking it was about 5hrs for the climb.

Nadine checking out the Goat Range – On [...]

Mt Baldy TR

The North Face of Mt Baldy – We skied the obvious diagonal rock-lined chute.
This particular Mt Baldy (there are 34 in North America) is a prominent 2321m peak rising above Wildhorse Ck in the Nelson Range.  For years now I’ve been eyeing the dramatic north face while working at Wildhorse cat-skiing, and have heard stories [...]

Rossland Range Update

Paused atop the WWF ridge (Mt Roberts).
I spent most of last week in the basement of an office building in Kelowna, being trained in GIS software. But I’m back, and stoked be skiing my local mountains. The two small  (8cm and 9cm) snowfalls in the past week have significantly improved skiing conditions. Yesterday I made [...]