2014/2015 Canadian Rockies Thread

[jamesp]

Yeah it gets caught winding through rocky sections because it's wide down low, cuts corners tighter than the bike. The stand rattles loose eventually & falls down so you will want another strap to hold it up. If you have a 29r it will drag on the tire going over humps, the bar is a bit too short.

[pano-dude]

Shout out to the invermere high school ski/board team on placing 1st at provincials.
Also to the coaches for making it happen.

[Skiwurrel]

yea Invermere!
That used to be me haha good times

[LSeed]

Heres some stoke from January, first time working on making a video. Used Imovie. I feel like i color corrected every clip differently and a few things could be better but all in all pretty stoked for a first time effort.


Not sure how to embed anymore. Here she be.

[goldenshowers]

Yeah it gets caught winding through rocky sections because it's wide down low, cuts corners tighter than the bike. The stand rattles loose eventually & falls down so you will want another strap to hold it up. If you have a 29r it will drag on the tire going over humps, the bar is a bit too short.

Thanks for the advice. I'm not on a 29er as I have to make it a little more fair for my buddies to keep up with me on theirs

As for skiing, found some great snow on North and somewhat East exposure. Get after it!!

[goldenshowers]

Shout out to the invermere high school ski/board team on placing 1st at provincials.
Also to the coaches for making it happen.

Nice work kids! The Golden kids join the team so that they can go rip the mountain for a couple of days and not sit in class. In fairness to them, there is no actual program here, just throw up some gates and try it. Most groms here are into the free skiing thing through Gnar (Golden Alpine Rippers). Perhaps free skiing will be the next high school competition…..highly unlikely seeing as the amount of paperwork to take school kids to the museum.

[pano-dude]

Nice work kids! The Golden kids join the team so that they can go rip the mountain for a couple of days and not sit in class. In fairness to them, there is no actual program here, just throw up some gates and try it. Most groms here are into the free skiing thing through Gnar (Golden Alpine Rippers). Perhaps free skiing will be the next high school competition…..highly unlikely seeing as the amount of paperwork to take school kids to the museum.

It's the same in invermere, there's a couple keen racers with world cup connections but for the most part they look forward to the free ski part of the ski days.
My kid said the best part of the trip was meeting Tanner Hall.

[angrysasquatch]

Thanks Pano-dude for the access beta. Got 'er!





West coulior of Mt Farnham (biggest dog in the Purcells- 3483m). Anybody know if it's been done? Got to within 50-100m of the summit, could go higher possibly but it wasn't filled enough. I assume it could be better, there was little snow and obvious heavy wind scarring on other nearby features.

[pano-dude]

gnarly, well done!

[Barnballs]

Trip to Banff start this Friday: 10 days in the area including Golden & Revy. Guess sun-block and rain gear will get packed.
Any hikes (non-ski) recommended to mix-up groomer crushing? Bars/Eats/Vistas not to be missed?

Thanks in advance - and if anyone is up for cocktailing in Banff this weekend, drop a note!
BB

[mntlion]

banff food:
sun/mon bunch of $10 pizza options at the Bison
Tues: $3ish Tacos at the magpie
Thus: plate smashing greek night at Balkin.

banff adventrues for ALL your non-skiing activity bookings

rent fat bikes? XC skis?

sulpher mnt gondola? hot springs?

[angrysasquatch]

Such a sick line

[Shorty_J]

^^^ Wow... just a little bit of consequence in that one, huh?

Gnarly.

[kalisto]

^ How was the tour?

Spent last week in the rockies, being a coast skier tourist...

Ski rapped into Grand Daddy, because that's what apparently all the cool kids ski... except someone decided to side slip the top section of it, so that was pretty lame...

TR coming soon!

[Shorty_J]

^ How was the tour?

Spent last week in the rockies, being a coast skier tourist...

Ski rapped into Grand Daddy, because that's what apparently all the cool kids ski... except someone decided to side slip the top section of it, so that was pretty lame...

TR coming soon!

Nice pic!

Tour was pretty, but skiing was shitty... you know, pretty much what I expected.

Got some sun and great views so can't complain, really.

[alive]

http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/1348...d-in-avalanche

Vibes to those who may have know the victim... Sounds like he/she was local? Would like to hear more about what happened...

[el hefe]

Had a friend up near there yesterday, said it got super warm with lots of activity. Sad news.

[grinch]

Very experienced. A name we'll recognize. Vibes.

[mntlion]

bummer, I hope I dont recognize, but I assume I will

[Eldo]

Gmoser.

[el hefe]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle23412511/

[Zeedashbo]

Damn. That's one helluva loss

[DougW]

Vibes to Tannis she's going to be broken up this.

[sillybunt2]

This one hits hard as he was a positive influence on so many people. Robson was a great guy with infectuous joy for the mountains. My heart goes out to his family and young son.

[pano-dude]

Sad news for sure