12/13 Ski / Snowboard / Backcountry

[stein]

Is anyone here as addicted to snowboarding as they are fly fishing? I know I am and December has been deep!

 

http://youtu.be/FVdYu9DigmA

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

waiting till the new year and i hope to hit some of that shizznit!

[ham]

heading out there for a few days over new years glad to see they're finally gettin some covereage how was it?

[stein]

heading out there for a few days over new years glad to see they're finally gettin some covereage how was it?

 

They are getting nuked right now, 30cm+ today

 

I love the powdery white sh!t !! Thanks for posting. i just picked up a gopro recently.... What model were you using?

 

this is the 1080 Hero, 3 yrs old, the new Hero3's are amazing!

[jasonvilly]

Headed cat boarding tomorrow, excellent surprise Christmas present from the wife. I will be with only the second group to head to the area in the cat, so should be really good.

 

Can't wait!

 

Then off to whitefish for 5 days on Saturday with a stop off in fernie on the way back.

 

 

[dutchie]

Weatherman saying it's going to warm up some , should make it perfect sledding & snowboarding , plus fernie and I guess everywhere has tons of snow , I'm going to go in the next few days , anyone want to go as a group , see some back county and them lovely mountains ,

 

Make a day trip or a overnight 'er

[stein]

I would be up for a day tour, I pretty much head out touring every weekend as it is.

 

Kananaskis and Banff/Yoho have been great lately! Here is a good trip report from my buddy Kevin.

 

Dec. 31' date=' 2012 w/ Justin (stein)

 

Last turns of 2012 and they were awesome! The base of the slope was only 5 mins from the car.

[img']http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8220/8333416983_4ef3a1ae59_z.jpg[/img]

 

After one lap on the normal slopes, we decided to take a closer look at the couloir.

 

It was relatively small, straight, not too steep, little/no overhead hazard, good run out, and overall very stable conditions, so it was looking good.

 

We set a steep uptrack right to the mouth of the couloir and took the time to dig a pit. With no unexpected results to scare us off, we started the tedious boot pack up the couloir.

 

 

We made it about 100 vertical meters up and began to notice a 10 cm thick crust overlying sugary snow, so we strapped in at that point, about halfway up.

 

 

 

Slightly crusty in the couloir, but awesome powder down below. So good that we came back up to our pit location for a third lap.

 

3 runs, ~800 m vertical, 8 km

 

A few more pics and hi-res of those above here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/powrider_kevsauer/sets/72157632400918353/with/8333390733/

 

Here's hoping for much more safe and plentiful powder in the new year!

 

 

 

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

im looking to head up Saturday the 12th if any one wants to join. I will go where ever the powder is but if none i usually spend the day running mach 2 down all triple to regular blacks and blue runs. I would also entertain the idea of Nakiska as i have not rode there in a long time.

Pm if you want to car pool

[stein]

I tried to pm ya 420. Says some error you can't receive messages? I'd be up for Fernie on Saturday. Looks like its getting deep.

[jasonvilly]

I hear Revy is where it's at, they keep getting pumped daily with snow. But much too far for a day trip.

[stein]

I hear Revy is where it's at, they keep getting pumped daily with snow. But much too far for a day trip.

 

I could be convinced to go

[Jayhad]

let me know as well Jer, you might twist my arm into going saturday

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

LETS ****ING DO IT!!!!!!

 

i will check back here again to double check. If you want to swing by on Friday night to wax some becks im down.