Misery in the outdoors usually revolves around four things. Cold, wet, tired, or hungry. Being one of the four is really guaranteed on any trip. Two of four is still not unusual, par for the course on any longer or more commiting trip. Three or four of the above is generally when you really start[…]
March 24th was the Ken Jones Classic Ski Mountaineering Race. Nick and I drove from Vancouver to Golden on Friday and stayed at the Rondo Motel We managed to do the entire drive during daylight and I had enough time to go for a walk around Golden to stretch out my legs before the sun[…]
Alexis and I took the morning to ski a moderately steep line on Mt. Fissile. Fissile is the first of the larger peaks of the Spearhead Range beyond the Musical Bumps. The Saddle Chute starts just off the summit from the NW ridge. A fast ski from the lifts on Whistler brought us to the[…]
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Wednesday morning, Paul B. and I headed to the Duffy Lake Road for a day of ski tourning. 30 cm of storm snow and an avalanche forcast of High for the alpine made us a bit hesitant about where we wanted to ski. We decided on tree skiing around Chief Pascall but the latest whistler[…]
Thank you for purchasing one of my Google Earth Route Guides! You should receive an email with a link to download the file within a few minutes. If you don’t, contact me! Your download is a .KMZ file. This is very similar to .html files that are used to create websites. It can be opened[…]
After an excellent trip to the Rockies with Sarah, this weekend was the Canadian Skimo Championships in Golden B.C. Dad and I drove up Friday with a stop for a ski in Rogers Pass and then met Nick and Paul in Golden for the race. Golden is a fun town and Kicking Horse is a pretty[…]
Sarah and I left Vancouver later afternoon on Wednesday after she got out of work and started driving towards Lake Louise. We made our goal of Revelstoke by about 10:30 and climbed into the back of “Chateau Eric” for the night. See the full gallery on Posterous Thursday morning we grabbed a quick breakfast in[…]