The French Poodle
When Scott mentioned Grizzly Chute to me the night before I felt a small surge of adrenaline. I haven’t really stepped it up in awhile and the line that Newsome mentioned is steep and aggressive. His particular line I have never seen tracks down it. So at 6 am I picked up Frank and we [...]
Heli flight
I had plans to spend the day at home but somehow I found myself leaning out of a helicopter taking photos of the cat skiing operation in Revelstoke. This area is what will become the Revelstokes Ski hill, a development that has just begun and will culminate into a huge resort. I can testify that [...]
Spoiled
I am beginnning to feel spoiled. I started this rambling blog to follow my search for powder and looking back at every day I have been spoiled. Amazing powder everyday, countless runs of pristine untouched snow. Sometimes I find myself complaining about the quality and I catch myself when I realise how good it is. [...]
10 000 feet and a couple of friends
My eye lids are getting heavy, and I am fading but I will try to recap today’s adventures. It all began at 5.45 when Dave picked me up, a 6 cup espresso in my hands and we were off. We toured up quickly to the top of Grizzly Shoulder, by 8 am we were in [...]
Rogers Pass
I am very fortunate that I have an undestanding partner who lets me out two days after the birth of our second child. Tracey understand my needs and somehow accomodates them. Thanks Trace! I headed up to Rogers pass at around 6 am getting touring by 7. I headed up the “old” Grizzly shoulder and [...]
A Son!
After many months of speculation and anticipation Tracey gave birth to a 10 lbs son. Healthy and happy we are blown away by our new arrival. I understand that most people who read this will mainly want ski photos and journals of a skier but my family is also a huge part of who I [...]
pregnant turns
I toured out solo this morning to pound off a few laps at the fingers, ideally being called midway through and told that Tracey is in labour. Never happened. I enjoyed two great runs in the fingers and then followed some friends up to the womb. I pulled one more lap in the higher trees, [...]
balance
Balance, Today was all about balance. Wind had played havoc with the snow, creating large drifts, random windslab and some great snow to ski. So I had to be balanced on my skis to not get caught too far forward. I realized this as I was tumbling head over skis into the deep cold snow. [...]
A little first descent!
I am always amazed at how many different lines there are to ski. I have spent days upon days skiing on Macpherson, exploring all aspect of it, always looking for something new. The last day that I skied the womb, I turned and looked up this chute and wondered how I could locate it and [...]
Athleticism
One very large part of my goal is simply athelticism, get out and get some vertical. Today was simply about getting my vertical done and getting home to work on home improvements, and spend a little bit of family time. So I went directly to the Macpherson Fingers and broke trail from 2200 feet to [...]
