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Rocky Mountains

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Fernie	topics 8 replies 4	Fernie in Feb By Beean 2017-02-25
Icefields Parkway	topics 37 replies 34	Late October skiing By Gringo 2016-10-20
Kananaskis Country	topics 41 replies 70	Retreat! Commonwealth N Couloir By Justin Bekker 2017-04-24
Yoho National Park	topics 7 replies 5	Calgary pair survive size 3.5 avalanche in Yoho By MikeyB 2014-04-24
Wapta Traverse	topics 16 replies 8	Current (March 14, 2015) Wapta conditions? By Armin 2015-03-15
Kootenay National Park	topics 8 replies 11	Backcountry near Fairmont / Panorama? By wstrange 2015-12-25

Topics

Rockies Conditions 30-Mar-17 2017-03-31 By Beean Rockies Conditions 30 March 17 Welcome to one of the first weekends without a big weather system hitting the Rockies. How does it...	replies 0 views 1702	By Beean 2017-03-31
Egypt Lakes Trip Report 2017-03-24 By Beean In the hopes to avoid some of those terrible conditions I headed out to the Great Divide at the start of the week. The ski up Healy creek...	replies 2 views 3403	By Beean 2017-03-26
Rockies Conditions 16-Mar-17 2017-03-17 By Beean Rockies Conditions 16-Mar-17 aka The Stern Talk I’m not going to tell you what to do because I’m not your mum but just have a...	replies 0 views 3334	By Beean 2017-03-17
Rockies Conditions 09-Mar-17 2017-03-10 By Beean Another weekend, another weather system. Guess what, it’s going to snow and get warm and windy and then things are gonna slide. So I guess...	replies 0 views 1656	By Beean 2017-03-10
Rockies Conditions 03-Mar-17 2017-03-03 By Beean I swear every weekend a system moves in and ruins all my prepared handy terrain tips to find secret pow stashes. The Banff region is...	replies 0 views 1822	By Beean 2017-03-03
Rockies Conditions 17-Feb-17 2017-02-17 By Beean It rained yesterday, the perfect sting in the tail of a week of above freezing temps. Things are going to be tricky for a little while....	replies 0 views 2075	By Beean 2017-02-17
Rockies Conditions 2017-02-10 By Beean I’m going to assume that no one’s heading out this weekend because of avalanches and stuff. There’s a Special Public Avalanche...	replies 0 views 2264	By Beean 2017-02-10
Rockies Conditions 3-Feb-17 2017-02-03 By Beean Rockies Conditions 03-02-17 Looks like we had a bit of an avy cycle at the start of this week. Blowy winds scoured half the skiable...	replies 0 views 2104	By Beean 2017-02-03
Rockies Conditions 27-Jan-17 2017-01-27 By Beean After the refresh last week it seems we’re back on track to the classic rockies rotten snowpack. Everywhere is reporting last week’s...	replies 1 views 2386	By skiitsbetter 2017-01-30
Rockies Conditions 20-Jan-17 2017-01-20 By Beean It snowed! Praise Ullr! We encountered 30+cms of fresh white stuff along the Divide but I’m sure more fell in other regions. Freshies! We...	replies 0 views 2391	By Beean 2017-01-20
Rockies Conditions 2017-01-06 By Beean It was cold. It’s not so cold anymore, but it was definitely pretty cold. The skiing was good if you like frostnip and facets. I...	replies 2 views 2263	By Beean 2017-01-13
Any peaks skiable this time of year? 2016-10-04 By Jake Acito This past weekend, a buddy of mine and I saw a peak that looked like it had pretty deep snow and started joking that we would ski it this weekend....	replies 1 views 2081	By Gringo 2016-10-18
New 7 pitch 5.7 route established in the Bow Valley 2016-08-03 By Chasing snowflakes Looking for some something new to do in the Bow Valley this weekend? A brand new 7 pitch bolted route has just gone up on Mt Cascade's...	replies 0 views 2388	By Chasing snowflakes 2016-08-03
Adventure Dispatch -- bikepacking, fly-in, climb and raft --VIDEO 2016-05-12 By admin02 Who thought fatbiking was just for snow? We watch a lot of videos here and the best ones always feature trips and adventures we'd want to go...	replies 0 views 1945	By admin02 2016-05-12
Murchison and Trevor Sexsmith 2016-05-11 By Chasing snowflakes Yet another Trevor Sexmsith post worthy of all those who stumble across it. For those who might not know Trevor has been slowly? No pretty damn...	replies 0 views 2288	By Chasing snowflakes 2016-05-11
Teammate backcountry, touring skiing, split boarding Rockies 2016-03-11 By hello everybody, I'm looking for people to do some nice backcountry ski tours with! I'll stay in Canada until the 26th April and all the...	replies 2 views 2016	By 2016-03-12
Teammate touring ski Banff National Park 2016-02-21 By Hi, I come spend one week in Canmore and expect to go earn my turns in touring ski. I arrive on Tuedsay 23th and plan to go discover some traces...	replies 1 views 1904	By 2016-03-11
Early Season Stoke 2016-01-30 By skiitsbetter Well, I haven't ski toured much lately and it seems more and more photos are making their way to instagram. Here are some pictures from some...	replies 0 views 1786	By skiitsbetter 2016-01-30
Alpine Club of Canada ski touring Hut to open in Waterton Lakes National Park 2015-06-20 By shredr Big news for backcountry skiers looking to explore Waterton Lakes National Park this winter, there will now be an Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) hut...	replies 0 views 3847	By shredr 2015-06-20
Conditions in the spray valley? 2015-06-06 By skiitsbetter Someone was wondering all winter what conditions were like in the Spray Valley. To be honest, I have no idea, but a month or two ago, they were...	replies 0 views 2118	By skiitsbetter 2015-06-06
Spring guidebook lines 2015-06-03 By skiitsbetter The life of the weekend warrior was a litle tough this spring, with consistent blue-bird weather not appearing until later. Chick-a-boom...	replies 2 views 3267	By skiitsbetter 2015-06-05
Low Avi Risk Yoyo'ing Areas in Banff/Jasper 2015-01-14 By atom Hi everyone, I'm just getting into back country skiing, and im looking for some low risk/low angle places to practice in the...	replies 3 views 3032	By tjzubick 2015-01-16
Banff area conditions and suggestions 2014-12-28 By tjzubick Hi all, looking to head out in the Rockies tomorrow most likely above Sunshine around Rock Isle Lake or Twin Cairns if conditions allow. Anyone...	replies 5 views 2749	By tjzubick 2015-01-02
The Wise Man 2014-11-22 By Jake Five minutes of humble.	replies 1 views 2269	By Jake 2014-11-22
Jasper and Willmore anyone? 2014-10-15 By SkiDadle Does no one tour north of the Ice Fields or is this another of those Calgary forums that forbids any mention of anything for those of us...	replies 1 views 2964	By 2wheeler 2014-10-15