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2017-12-02
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admin
Today's tip will show you how to easily separate your climbing skins with out having a hernia,... or worse. The glue on climbing skins can be...
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2017-12-02
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2017-11-27
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Pistol Pete
November has been treating us pretty well so far and has offered up some great powder skiing and riding. Last week brought in a bit of rain...
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Pistol Pete
2017-11-27
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2017-11-26
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Bushwhacker
Another valuable G3U video with Mel Bernier. Ripping your skins without removing your skis is a straightforward trick once you get the...
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Bushwhacker
2017-11-26
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2017-11-25
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admin
Whistler's infamous Extreme Couloir has a bit of a history. It was once named the Saudan Couloir and due to legal issues had to be...
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2017-11-25
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2017-11-22
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admin
Is this going to be a replay of the 2016/17 ski season this year? Sounds like a good chance this will happen as there’s about a 65-75%...
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admin
2017-11-22
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2017-11-20
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Pistol Pete
Footprint: the outline or indentation left by a foot on a surface. For those of us on skins, out footprint is called a skin track, but...
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Pistol Pete
2017-11-20
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2017-11-19
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Bushwhacker
"Jump in the van with Marie-France Roy and Alex Yoder as they weave their way through Scotland, exploring how personal accountability...
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Alan Milnes
2017-11-19
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2017-11-17
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admin02
We featured the [EAST] version of the Salomon "Bearings" series a couple weeks back and wondered whether they'd hit our area in the...
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admin02
2017-11-17
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2017-11-15
Sammy Carlson new movie twentyfour is worth a watch. Let me tell you why. If you grew up anywhere other than the west coast and are under 35 then...
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2017-11-14
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Pistol Pete
Chances are, if you are reading this, you have some love for the mountains. And why wouldn't you?! Those wild landscapes are so...
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Pistol Pete
2017-11-14
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2017-11-13
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Pistol Pete
Apologies for the late post today! I've been helping out with a little backcountry project and got back into town a little later...
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bfow
2017-11-15
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2017-11-12
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Bushwhacker
Personal experience corroborates reports of sharky skiing around Kananaskis Country over the past few weeks. That said, where other guinea pigs...
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Bushwhacker
2017-11-12
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2017-11-09
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admin02
So! Much! Content! Here's a new short from Salomon Freeski TV. It's based on a cool concept—cut BC into the four points of the...
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admin02
2017-11-09
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2017-11-08
Ever watch ski patrol open terrain after a storm? Have you ever just watched those guys ski all that pow first and think to yourself they just...
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2017-11-07
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Pistol Pete
As winter closes in, more and more images of skiing and snowboarding are flooding into our lives. The more we see, the more the stoke...
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Pistol Pete
2017-11-07
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2017-11-06
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Pistol Pete
Canyoneering is a sport I kind of discovered by accident, but have always really enjoyed. Originally we didn't realize what we were...
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Pistol Pete
2017-11-06
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2017-11-03
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admin
News was just released yesterday on the controversial Jumbo Resort development near Invermere BC. It seems that an appeal by the Ktunaxa...
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2017-11-03
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2017-11-01
Bouldering. You either love, hate it or you've never heard of it. It's one of my personal favorite types of climbing for the simple fact...
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2017-10-31
Watch the 12th volume of HEART Films - BEYOND - available on Vimeo. Follow the crew as they explore hidden spots in BC, Japan and...
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2017-10-30
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admin
Matchstick Productions is debuting their latest ski flick called 'Drop Everything' across North America and there's one showing in...
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admin
2017-10-30
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2017-10-29
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Bushwhacker
"We’ve all been that kid sitting in the back seat of our family car, wishing we were somewhere else. Through the boredom, the...
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Bushwhacker
2017-10-29
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2017-10-25
I promised myself that I wouldn't ski this season until November. I resisted September with ease and the meager start to October proved to no...
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2017-10-24
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admin
The last thing you want while out in the mountains ski touring is to have your climbing skins fail. Trust me, it's happened to me several...
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admin
2017-10-24
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2017-10-23
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Pistol Pete
"Life of Glide", a new short film produced by Teton Gravity Research will be coming out this winter. "A love, obsession,...
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Pistol Pete
2017-10-23
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2017-10-22
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Bushwhacker
Interesting stuff from ENSA in Chamonix. With many skiers brushing up on rescue techniques in anticipation of the season, this kind of...
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Bushwhacker
2017-10-22
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