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I meant to post this earlier but like everything else it got pushed down the line. I had two days left of official holiday vacation...
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Just back from an AST 1 course in the Whitewater area backcountry today...
About 10cm of new snow fell overnight followed by rain...
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What a great way to kick off 2011. This was our second time to Nelson this season, our first being a break in tour of Evening Ridge. ...
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Sorry about the title. I couldn't help myself. We hit White Queen around 12:30 or 1:00 today, taking advantage of the Whitewater backcountry...
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What a difference three days makes – the last post for this route told of a mine field of tree bombs and not too much new snow to cover...
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From around 1700-2100m (and above?), same as last week. This was obvious in-bounds today. Hopefully some new snow will obliterate it, but it was...
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Ok, maybe not a true Ice Queen but still not much fun what ever you call her. Extremely high winds on the summit confirmed why we had first tracks...
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Skied into Acidophilus today as the hill was being pummelled by some pretty good winds and the snow looked like it was only sticking in low lying...
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The snow was deep the winds were calm and the sun fought to shine - the perfect day to go skiing. Today was the opening of the Glory Ridge Chair...
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Since Whitewater is opening their new Glory Ridge Chair soon this means that the ski touring accent routes will be changing as the policy at...
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Well I had a hell of a morning the other day. Fresh tracks till noon every run! Check it out!
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That classic winter Pineapple Express was in full force today and bought up to 20cm of new snow to the backcountry surrounding Whitewater with...
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A new report from the Public Mountain Conditions Reoprt on current conditions in 5-mile drainage at Whitewater Ski Resort:
Made a trip with...
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Some more observations from another AST course yesterday.
7:20am in Nelson (550m) -3.5C
8:00am at Evening Ridge...
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A recent Mountain Conditions Report on Prospector Bowl at Whitewater:
Yesterday I skied into the Prospector's area of Whitewaters's...
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I woke up, mouth as dry as sandpaper and a pounding headache, to my friend Ryan on the telephone. He wanted to know if I wanted to go...
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I took this snap on Saturday at the top of the Glory Ridge Chair looking over at White Queen. You can see that things still need to fill-in...
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Some good Beta via the Public Mountain Conditions Report:
Some quick observations from an AST 1 course today:
1500m – 60cm
1600m...
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Just returned from Whitewater today (along with 100 other eager souls) and see that the snow is starting to pile up with some mixed layers just to...
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There have already been some great posts on the subject but I thought I'd add to the pile. I couldn't get out into the BC because I had a...
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With all the hype in town about the epic year on our doorstep and the sure signs of snow topped elephant mountain out the office window – I...
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So it looks like things are starting to pile up at the hill - anyone out there made any turns yet? what is the base looking like after this last...
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Things are starting to happen up at Whitewater, the pictures below are from Saturday Oct 16th and you can see that there are a few more structures...
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We took advantage of the great weather today to head up to Whitewater to see how the new Glory Ridge triple Chair install was coming...
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