Page 5 of 11 FirstFirst 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... LastLast
Results 101 to 125 of 272
  1. #101
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    bestcoast
    Posts
    2,125
    we just bailed on Nelson in favour of Revy, looks like they may fair a bit better with a few systems through the week, no-cancel reso's for Red though end of week, so may have to be satisfied with ripping groomers there!

  2. #102
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    Baldface is skiing well still apparently as it's high enough.
    Wh20 isn't bad considering and is due more precip by Wednesday. As long as the freezing levels drop, it'll be all good.

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  3. #103
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Encinitas CA
    Posts
    274
    Quote Originally Posted by UkBCyeti View Post
    Baldface is skiing well still apparently as it's high enough.
    Wh20 isn't bad considering and is due more precip by Wednesday. As long as the freezing levels drop, it'll be all good.

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk
    Appreciate the beta


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

  4. #104
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    No worries. Happy to help!

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  5. #105
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Spent a week at Hilda at 1950m. Even up to 2300m there was rain and pineapple crust.

    From others:

    Sol in Monashees also got wet.
    CMH Nakusp & Kootenays wet and shut down for at least a day
    BRC ditto

    Selkirk Lodge just made it to the cooler temps so snowpack survived
    Powder Creek ditto
    Sentry ditto
    Icefall ditto
    Kicking Horse ditto

  6. #106
    Join Date
    Mar 2020
    Posts
    205
    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    Spent a week at Hilda at 1950m. Even up to 2300m there was rain and pineapple crust.

    From others:

    Sol in Monashees also got wet.
    CMH Nakusp & Kootenays wet and shut down for at least a day
    BRC ditto

    Selkirk Lodge just made it to the cooler temps so snowpack survived
    Powder Creek ditto
    Sentry ditto
    Icefall ditto
    Kicking Horse ditto
    The zipper crust is actually skiing pretty good. Especially in more featured, bouncy terrain. It's not blower but it's still full send

  7. #107
    Join Date
    Nov 2012
    Location
    Vancouver, BC
    Posts
    1,332
    Quote Originally Posted by UkBCyeti View Post
    Baldface is skiing well still apparently as it's high enough.
    Wh20 isn't bad considering and is due more precip by Wednesday. As long as the freezing levels drop, it'll be all good.

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk
    Good news, booked for a day Feb. 10th, fingers crossed for lots of refills.

  8. #108
    Join Date
    Dec 2015
    Posts
    62
    Anyone have any recent experience crossing into Canada at Paterson?

    Im flying into Spokane on Sunday Feb 6th, hoping to drive to Rossland. Fully vaxed with PCR test in hand hoping to get into Canada for a couple days...

  9. #109
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Encinitas CA
    Posts
    274
    I had six coworkers do that crossing yesterday. No problems getting through. They sent a manifest up early and said no hassles or haggles.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

  10. #110
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Quote Originally Posted by nickbokhoven View Post
    I had six coworkers do that crossing yesterday. No problems getting through. They sent a manifest up early and said no hassles or haggles.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    Be warned that the crossing closes at 4. Not 8 as it says in the website and signs

  11. #111
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    Denver
    Posts
    260
    Crossed last Monday with a total group of five. No issues but one guy was randomly selected for the COVID test and said the instructions and info were less than clear. He completed it within 36 hours (not the required 24) as was on hold for a long time and missed the 6:00 drop time at the drugstore in Trail.

  12. #112
    Join Date
    Dec 2015
    Posts
    62
    Quote Originally Posted by GiantManta View Post
    Crossed last Monday with a total group of five. No issues but one guy was randomly selected for the COVID test and said the instructions and info were less than clear. He completed it within 36 hours (not the required 24) as was on hold for a long time and missed the 6:00 drop time at the drugstore in Trail.
    Was he able to get in or did they stop him and make him wait?

  13. #113
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Posts
    238
    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    Be warned that the crossing closes at 4. Not 8 as it says in the website and signs
    What about the crossing at nelway?

  14. #114
    Join Date
    Apr 2017
    Location
    Encinitas CA
    Posts
    274
    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    Be warned that the crossing closes at 4. Not 8 as it says in the website and signs
    LeeLau - Nelway or Paterson? I knew Nelway adjusted but that is new info for Paterson. Paterson was 24 hrs.

    Nelway https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/do-rb/of...x/550-eng.html


    Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

  15. #115
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Quote Originally Posted by nickbokhoven View Post
    LeeLau - Nelway or Paterson? I knew Nelway adjusted but that is new info for Paterson. Paterson was 24 hrs.

    Nelway https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/do-rb/of...x/550-eng.html
    My bad! I checked with my friends and it was Nelway

  16. #116
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    Quote Originally Posted by nickbokhoven View Post
    Appreciate the beta


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    Maybe bring those less pow specific skis if you're not packed already.
    Forecast has downgraded precip, now saying just trace amounts Wednesday.

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  17. #117
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    https://mountainculturegroup.com/ten...tish-columbia/

    What an excellent well-written piece with historical context; describing a problem and proposing a solution. As for this : "“It’s the lack of government planning and management that’s actually at the heart of all this, rather than the tenure process,” --- Yes. A thousand times yes.
    Holds true for the Kootenays, for the South Coast also

  18. #118
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    Definitely. It would be interesting to see if the Golden land use idea could work here. I suspect there are too many varying interests to come to a compromise on anything to do with the land, as it's another 20 years on from that working in Golden.
    Zincton is a perfect example of knee jerk reactions to any new operations putting themselves out there.
    It can be difficult to make inroads into the already entrenched industry in the Kootenays.

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  19. #119
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Quote Originally Posted by UkBCyeti View Post
    It would be interesting to see if the Golden land use idea could work here. I suspect there are too many varying interests to come to a compromise on anything to do with the land, as it's another 20 years on from that working in Golden.
    Yup. There's tenure fatigue especially in the south and west Kootenays and for good reason. The tenure map is eye-opening. I do feel bad for anyone even trying to apply as there's simply going to be a knee-jerk bring out the pitchforks reaction. Golden was remarkable; user groups speaking to each other instead of yelling at each other.

  20. #120
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    Yup. There's tenure fatigue especially in the south and west Kootenays and for good reason. The tenure map is eye-opening. I do feel bad for anyone even trying to apply as there's simply going to be a knee-jerk bring out the pitchforks reaction. Golden was remarkable; user groups speaking to each other instead of yelling at each other.
    That last sentence. Would be great to see that happen here.
    The tenure map is something else. There's also some winter tenures that aren't being used at all. Luckily they seem to be open to access for all if they're not using them.
    We thought about looking at a tenure for a project a couple of years ago. Didn't look for long!

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  21. #121
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Use this if you really want to dig in https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/d...mapping/imapbc

    Go look at the Valkyrs or the area south of Kokanee. So many overlaps!!!!

  22. #122
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    Yeah I had a nose at that before. Thanks for the link though, I'd lost it!

    It's insane how covered that zone is!
    We were looking south of Kokanee....

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

  23. #123
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    North Vancouver/Whistler
    Posts
    13,983
    Quote Originally Posted by UkBCyeti View Post
    Yeah I had a nose at that before. Thanks for the link though, I'd lost it!

    It's insane how covered that zone is!
    We were looking south of Kokanee....
    Read up about New Denver and Rilor Wilderness and how much acrimony that raised. It was borderline scary. I think it's archived in KMC.

  24. #124
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Location
    Rossland BC
    Posts
    1,879
    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    https://mountainculturegroup.com/ten...tish-columbia/

    What an excellent well-written piece with historical context; describing a problem and proposing a solution. As for this : "“It’s the lack of government planning and management that’s actually at the heart of all this, rather than the tenure process,” --- Yes. A thousand times yes.
    Holds true for the Kootenays, for the South Coast also
    It’s both. Having land use designation default to an amalgam of the dreams of a bunch of eccentric misanthropes, is no substitute for actual evidence based and properly resourced planning and management.
    Unfortunately we’re now at the point where there is so much pressure on the land base, and so many divergent interests, that getting meaningful participation in any process that might require giving up existing privileges is impossible. Nobody wants to invest in a “collaborative” process in which only those who think they’re going to “win” participate, nobody accepts the results, and otherwise everyone just gets yelled at.
    The GBRAP process is widely lauded as a success, but my friends in Golden tell me it’s become irrelevant due to significantly changed (since 1999) recreation patterns and all the usual predictable disfunction.
    I don’t see any answer but for some fantasy of enlightened top-down governance, based on principles of long term ecological sustainability, and “common good” based value judgements, and which also deals with the cluster fuck that is forest management in BC. One can dream.

  25. #125
    Join Date
    Jan 2022
    Posts
    147
    I started reading the VW 9 page letter against the tenure. Wow they were unstoked, eh?

    Sent from my SM-A530W using Tapatalk

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •