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        <title><![CDATA[Revelstoke]]></title>
        <description>RSS of Revelstoke</description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:04:23 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gorge Creek FSR]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[
Just curious if anybody heard what the rumour is about the Gorge Creek FSR this year. Is it still open until xmas and sled access after that?
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            <pubDate>2015-10-12 15:08:00</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mind The Gap]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[





Every year it&amp;#39;s the same. The calendar flips from August to September and our focus flips with it. The leaves begin their metamorphosis from vibrant greens to dreadful browns, the signs of decay and death. &amp;nbsp;It&amp;#39;s the proverbial turn of the page into a new chapter, into a new season and we just can&amp;rsquo;t help but to get stoked about it. Like super stoked bro. With September comes the pipe dreams, passed between friends via facebook and texts. Always joking about the approaching rains; &amp;nbsp;&quot;If only those freezing levels could drop a few hundred meters&quot;. Yes, if only. Of course the freezing levels never seem to drop quite far enough, or days off never seem to line up with opportunity. As we all know, 95% of the early fall is spent spitting pipe dreams back and forth between friends. &amp;nbsp;When the snow level does creep down and precipitation is incoming you just need to make it happen if you can. You&amp;#39;ve just gotta.&amp;nbsp;


















Getting&amp;hellip; less wet.








This week, as freezing levels looked like they might creep down just far enough, work called. &amp;ldquo;Hey, can you take the next few days off?&amp;rdquo; Time off on a long weekend? I took it as a sign from ULLR. I sent out another batch of facebook and text messages, this time seeing who among my friends from seasons past were up to turning a pipe dream into a reality. We were going to find Winter in September. Fast forward through an 8am start, Timmies run, thirty or so kilometers of logging roads, and we were slinging backpacks loaded with our skis over our shoulders heading towards Mcrae Peak. The Ministry of Forests has deactivated the last portion of the road and created a new parking lot. This adds an extra kilometer walk to the route before you reach the old trailhead. Two and a half km up a well established trail, we took a right at a fork that broke us into the subalpine. Shortly after the fork we found snowline. A light dusting covered the slopes above, but not nearly enough to make any ski friendly turns. We were looking for the actual glacier which on the approach was obscured by cloud cover. Trending left, with a little route finding, we eventually found ourselves at the toe of glacier. Pools of glacial melt water line the final hundred meters of the approach and comments about how nice it would be if they were in fact hot pools were made. About two minutes later Roberto is up his waist in the drink after walking too close to what he assumed was a puddle. He promptly confirmed they weren&amp;#39;t in fact hot pools. A quick change of socks and lot&amp;#39;s of swearing/laughing later, and we were all in our ski boots looking upward at the glacier.






















There are 2 very obvious slots at the very top and few more smaller openings on both the left and right side. Further down the center of the glacier there are a few less pronounced sags in the snow, indicating possible danger.&amp;nbsp;Another party was just ahead of us and the last person in their group was about to drop in as the sun was beginning to poke out . As soon as we saw him, we started hooting and hollering, stoked to see our first run of the season up close. He quickly built up some speed, aired over a crevasse with an exaggerated jumping motion, caught an edge, bounced and tumbled behind a roller that was blocking our view. Although we had lost sight of him, we all knew in the pit of our stomach that he had just rolled right into the second slot&amp;hellip; shit. &amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;Did he just do that&amp;rdquo; one of his friends exclaimed. &amp;ldquo;Did that really just happen?&amp;rdquo; After what felt like 5 minutes of everyone scrambling uphill towards him, he finally reappeared. Needless to say we were all quite relieved. A closer look at the crevasse later determined he landed head first on a snow bridge that was covering a slot in the ice that we couldn&amp;rsquo;t see to the bottom of. Unbelievable luck that he managed to escape.













Now it was our turn. The sun quit ducking in and out of cover and came out full force, making for a bluebird afternoon. While the sun was great for visibility, it was also threatening to turn our field of powder into a field of shmoo. &amp;nbsp;Lucky for us the temperatures remained fairly low, around 5 degrees Celsius for the remainder of the day. We skied a few laps, boot packing some sections and skinning others. We took our time playing in the sunny snow covered playground for a few hours,&amp;nbsp;taking some photos and sharing a whole bunch of laughs and high fives. The feeling was surreal, skiing powder while just a few hundred feet below us it was still late Summer.&amp;nbsp;I could describe the skiing but it&amp;#39;s like they say, a photo is worth a thousand words. So here&amp;#39;s several thousand words.&amp;nbsp;

































It was total FGP it was by far the best early September turns any of us have ever had. At the foot of the glacier after our last turns, we sat in the sun eating the rest of our packed lunches and began reminiscing about what we had just done this labor day long weekend. The walk back to the car, although all down hill, seemed to be twice as long and the jarring of the combination of loaded packs plus the down hill travel just plain sucked. The beers tucked in the shade back at the truck were extra delicious, and the view on the way down was nothing short of breathtaking. In summary, we didn&amp;#39;t get super rad by airing any gaps in the glacier (we left that to others), and we highly doubt redbull would be interested in covering the trip, but we skied pow on labor day long weekend in North America, and that is pretty rad.&amp;nbsp;

We will leave you with a picture of our new poster boy for safe glacier travel. We met a random hiker that made the ridge walk above the glacier in shorts and hiking shoes. While your&amp;#39;re up there, you may as well traverse the glacier, because&amp;hellip; I mean, what could go wrong?





















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            <pubDate>2015-09-09 00:26:16</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mt Cartier]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[
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It&amp;#39;s like they say, earn your turns, take the path less traveled or if it was easy everyone would do it. Having recently hiked to the summit of Mt Cartier I can certainly relate. Cartier is one of Revelstoke&amp;#39;s most prominent peaks and has one of the largest slide paths in Canada known as &amp;ldquo;Greenslide&amp;rdquo;. At about 2000m of elevation top to bottom and  being over 2.5km across it makes for an impressive path to say the least.  The summit trail/Cartier bike trail begins on the lower slopes of Mt MacKenzie.
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This grade for 9 hours
This portion of the trail is quite bike friendly with many gentle switchbacks and well groomed corners. A bridge brings you over a creek at about 3.5 km onto Mt Cartier where the grade steepens slightly and remains consistent for another 5km or so. A this point you will reach the first structure on your hike. An old log cabin with low walls and an even lower entrance. I don&amp;#39;t think anyone would use this particular shelter unless there was some sort of emergency. With holes in the ceiling, walls and a variety of droppings on the floor. From here the trail mellows out and the last ( seemingly endless ) 6km make for friendly travel.  Several switchbacks later you enter into the lower portion of Greenslide and begin to gather a sense of scale. Over to the right, the large glaciers of the Gold Range begin to reveal themselves.

Max feeling small looking over at Revelstoke
Pushing onto the ridge below the summit is where the views really begin to pay dividends. Over to the south are  Arrow Lakes and Mt Mcrea, East has the illecillewaet glacier and Mt Ruth, Tumbledown and the surrounding icefields. To the west, Blanket glacier, Mt Bebgie, and Mt Odin.

To the right just below the summit is the fire lookout
A short ridge walk brings you to the base of a 40m scramble and up to a narrow ledge equipped with &amp;ldquo;safety railing&amp;rdquo;.  Once you make it across the old stone fire lookout sits majestically perched  on the edge of cliff.

The ledge
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Acceptable accomodations

Long way down
We dropped our bags here and made the final 30m or so scramble to the peak where the 360 views were nothing short of extraordinary. It was easy to forget the 9 hour slog to get to this point.  In the fire lookout there are flip down metal bunks which made for a surprisingly comfortable place to sleep but made dragging all my camping gear up there a little annoying.

Looking East&amp;nbsp;

Iv&amp;#39;e had worse nights

Sunset over the Columbia River
This lookout is maintained by CMH which they and Blanket Glacier Chalet both use as a repeater station.  We ate dinner, played cards and watched one of the most incredible sunsets I&amp;#39;ve seen to date. I missed the sunrise but my guess is that it was pretty good too. Heading back to road just simply reverse the process. We made it to the trail head in just under 5 hours but felt as if the trail would never end. It&amp;#39;s funny how the excitement of getting to the top makes you forget exactly how much effort it took to get there.  This is an absolute must do in Revelstoke but I recommend taking two days or hike-a-bike to the top as descending is truly a suffer fest but would make for an incredible bike ride. If you have a few extra bucks to spend Selkirk Tangiers will heli drop you at the top!]]></description>
            <pubDate>2015-08-29 12:19:34</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Winter&#039;s return]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Things was perked up here in Revelstoke! Cold temps in snow , I didn&amp;#39;t even know it did that anymore. &amp;nbsp;We received about 15cms of cold smoke last night and it improved the skiing at the resort to say the least. Skiing in bounds was great up top and the crust was not felt until about half way down the Stoke chair. Slack country as really good! If you stuck to more mellow terrain you didn&amp;#39;t touch the bottom but in the steeper trees a crust was felt. Even with a bit of a crusty bottom ( nothing worse than a crusty bottom) is was great skiing and if anyone is one the fence about making the trip the temps are holding.Loads of lines left in the slack and North/Greely, temps should remain for the next few days at leashtowever I think Banff is the place to be tomorrow.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Enjoy.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
 
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            <pubDate>2015-04-05 01:15:23</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holy ridge Batman]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[
Okay so its been a while since I posted, about a month ago actually. That probably has quite a bit to do with the fact that it just hasn&amp;#39;t really snowed this month now has it? That being said the skiing in Revelstoke has been pretty bad in general or acceptable at certain elevations followed by boiler plate tree skiing to skiing over refrozen wet avalanche debris. Fun! Well I won&amp;#39;t lie, I did spend a good chunk of time pouting at home but I have been enjoying the sun and good stability as of late . Anything above 2100-2200m ish is starting to dry out and very skiable. We spent our time exploring the slackcountry of RMR and have been having a blast these last few weeks.&amp;nbsp;
Here are a few photos of what up for grabs if you are not opposed to the &quot;sporty &quot; bits bellow 2200m.
 

Heading into the cat terrain&amp;nbsp;
plenty of options

Taking the stairs, at least booting is easy



Scenic spot for a hang out
 


Montana bowl? or is it kokanee ?

Day 2 , lets ski something steep





Cornices are big right now





Some cool stuff over yander&amp;nbsp;



Tasty! Long way down.&amp;nbsp;



Surfs up!



Skied the face on the left. Highlight of the season.&amp;nbsp;



There was about 4 areas like this and it sucked.&amp;nbsp;



Skin track out was terrible, lots of side hilling with zero ski pen. Jay dropped his pole and it didn&amp;#39;t stop for about 80m. Butt sliding conditions are favourable however.&amp;nbsp;So moral of the story, its great skiing above 2200m, it&amp;#39;s work below that but hey, it&amp;#39;s sunny and skiing is so much better than not skiing! &amp;nbsp;]]></description>
            <pubDate>2015-02-28 06:18:50</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Condition report Feb 1]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Skied a slack lap at RMR today. Things are skiable again. was home by noon and its been snowing since then. There was strong wind and the little snow that was available for transport was starting the form the odd slab here and there. Something to consider with this current system.&amp;nbsp;








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            <pubDate>2015-02-01 18:02:44</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Condition report December 30 2014]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Had a few hours to kill so we headed up to Revelstokes self propelled ski area. &amp;nbsp;Still some alder to deal with but great cold snow, about 15 cm of ski penetration and a few lines left to be skied. The chute above the lookers left has cleaned itself out. Crust is still present, no whoomping or anything of concern noticed that day.&amp;nbsp;
Looks great!




Reality of low tide

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            <pubDate>2014-12-31 17:41:33</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Condition Report December 20th]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Went a quick morning skin at the local ski hill across the valley from the one with the lifts. Some new snow, 10-15cm ski pen and even though it was fairly dense snow, the rain crust was very evident . Topped out at 1350m and I would say it&amp;#39;s worth heading out if you are short on time. Loads of Alder still but splenty of room for some turns.


Love early winter

Early season keeps you on your toes

 
&amp;nbsp; 




So get out there, even if only for a few hours. Skiing is so munch more fun than not skiing.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-12-22 00:27:28</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Malakwa Gorge Area]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Any intlel on post thaw snowpack out there?]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-12-20 12:33:39</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Touring to Blue River]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey folks,we planed to come to the Revelstoke area for backcountry skiing and ski touring in January. A friend is also working at Blue River, so I had the (maybe pretty dumb and crazy) idea to do a tour from roundabout Kinbasket Lake to Blue River looking like this: LinkPlaned as a 3 day trip with biwaking 2 nights. If faster than expected adding Adams Rock as a peak in between^^. Only at perfect conditions (not too much snow, nice weather) of course.
I have no idea if this is at all possible because it&amp;#39;s hard to find maps and other information about this area. Any advice? (Just call me nuts is fine as well!^^) I don&amp;#39;t even know if the road up to the dam at Kinbasket lake will be open in winter...Yeah but this just popped in my head so I thought I&amp;#39;ll ask you guys, what you think about this.Cheers!]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-10-24 16:34:03</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The on going Revelstoke and area conditions and bragging thread.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I just moved to Revelstoke this summer ( oh no not another one. yah yah ) from the rockies chasing more affordable housing and better snow. Starting this thread up to exchange beta and maybe find a few extra people to ski with.&amp;nbsp;

Anyone notice the snow up on begbie this morning?

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            <pubDate>2014-09-03 23:46:14</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Revelstoke Area Update]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi,

Has anyone visited the backcountry around Revy in/out if the park? Are the alders covered yet?

Kevin]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-01-01 14:08:01</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mt. Macpherson Advice?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Is anyone able to give any description of the Mt. Macpherson terrain? Particularly what it might be like this time of year? I&amp;#39;m hoping to get out here or around Trout Lake in another week, but I know the hills could still use a bit more snow.
Anyone been out in these areas this year?]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-12-16 15:53:38</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Comp : Monashee Mountains near the Revelstoke Resort]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A Beautiful Mountian Scene

A Bridge To A Winter Wonderland


Trains and Rivers

Bridges and Mountains

Snow Covered Trees


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            <pubDate>2012-02-07 17:55:32</pubDate>
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