Boarding with Fabes and Friends III
This season has been challenging for snow conditions for sure. Luckily when it has been good, it's been all time. Take a look at what me and the boys have been up too over the past few weeks, in the first edi...
Eagle Pass Heli-Ski Day Ski Program Review
There are two types of riders: those who have gone heli-skiing and those who want to go. I can finally, after so many years of dreaming, count myself among the latter. Like a 40 year-old virgin, I had my heli c...
Backcountry Problem Solving with the Volkl Crew at Sunrise Lodge
-All photos by Adam Clark ***
High up in BC’s Selkirk mountains at Sunrise Lodge, fire blazing as we sat down to a dinner of homemade pizza and salad after a full day of hiking and skiing waist-deep powder, ...
Logan Pehota Shows Some Blackcomb Hardpack Who’s Boss
Kids these days...This little clip from Logan Pehota shows what a hungry young shredder he is. All the footage is from a sunny afternoon of dropping all the Glacier Chair classics into about four centimetres of...
Flute Oboe; Whistler Slackcountry Jan 17, 2015
Snowed about 5cms in the morning then another convective cell came through giving us another 5cms in the late morning. Lots of people out in the Flute Oboe slackcountry.
Still quite a bit of preserved surfac...
Notes from the Greg Todds Memorial Noboard Race, 2015
Taylor Pearcey, an OG snowboard warrior who can hardly walk 100 metres, is at the front of a pack of bindingless snowboarders, barreling through the Christmas trees that have come to dominate the venue for ...
93 South – Trip and Conditions Report – Jan 13, 2015
Report by Simon Coward
With a bit of new snowfall in the last week or so we finally bit the bullet and headed out to 93 south. With the low snow year so far and the fact that trailheads are a lower...
SHADOWING A SKI MOUNTAINEERING COURSE – Whistler/Blackcomb backcountry
I shadowed one day of a five day ski mountaineering course put on by Altus Mountain Guides. Backstory: West Coasties (myself included), have a tradition of being self-guided and finding their own adventure. In ...
Escape to North Central BC – Skeena Cat Skiing
When things look tough further down south head North! That thought could apply right now as Southern BC has gotten nailed by an epic pineapple. It could easily apply almost anytime just as it did in spring 20...
Three Mountaineers Killed in Joffre Central Couloir…
Our thoughts go out to the friends and families of the three climbers who reportedly fell to their deaths on Mount Joffre, off the Duffey Lakes Highway north of Pemberton, on Sunday. Details are sketchy at this...