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	A very Good Friday - Winters Back! 2014-04-19 By admin Nothing beats a 4 day weekend except a 4 day weekend with a foot of fresh snow. After two weeks of spring like weather in the Kootenays a system...	replies 0 views 2352	By admin 2014-04-19
	Patagonia Down Sweater goodness 2014-04-18 By beaurepi Mouchos Gracias Patagonia Of all the people that could have won the Patagonia down sweater for the Soap Box Competition, it had to be me:...	replies 1 views 1995	By one4adventure 2014-04-21
	Very sad news: Avalanche kills 12 in single deadliest accident on Mount Everest 2014-04-18 By skifreak Reports are just coming out of this tragic event just as climbers are gathering for the 2014 climbing season on Mount Everest. Very tragic news,...	replies 1 views 3064	By skifreak 2014-04-18
	Canadian Avalanche Centre Warns Backcountry Users About New Smartphone Apps 2014-04-16 By admin The CAC recently sent out a press release talking about several of these new avalanche rescue apps which have popped up on-line over the past...	replies 0 views 2217	By admin 2014-04-16
	Backcountry skier killed in avalanche near Golden 2014-04-14 By skifreak Sad news from this past weekend reports a skier fatality from a slide at Fairy Meadows... A female skier died after being injured in an...	replies 1 views 4322	By skifreak 2014-04-15
	Helter Skelter - Huge Thanks to OR and BSC! 2014-04-12 By Jake Super fortunate to have won an amazing prize from Outdoor Research and Backcountry Skiing Canada. Stunning Valhalla Hoody is guaranteed to...	replies 0 views 1727	By Jake 2014-04-12
	Uphill travel within the ski area boundaries 2014-04-11 By camille.benoit@sympatico.ca Looking for input and opinions on weither or not Canadian resorts should allow uphill touring inside their boundaries. If you look at the resorts...	replies 7 views 6245	By Rani Thakur 2024-10-31
	Mike Douglas rants about Freeskiing 2014-04-07 By If you think Freeskiing is a new sport, think again. Mike Douglas sounds off in a Rick Mercer-style rant about the History of Freeskiing, proving...	replies 0 views 1614	By 2014-04-07
	Greg Hill completes 100k March Madness 2014-04-07 By admin After 31 days, Greg Hill reaches his personal goal of climbing and skiing more than 300-thousand feet! (click on the images to get a larger...	replies 0 views 3239	By admin 2014-04-07
	Backcountry conditions - is it worth it? 2014-04-06 By admin The local snow report said 8cm on Friday morning and another 11cm on Saturday am (April 5th) but in the back of my head all I could think of was...	replies 0 views 2562	By admin 2014-04-06
	SOAP BOX COMP March winner announced! 2014-04-03 By admin Thanks to everyone who entered the Soap Box Comp over the past three months, we enjoyed reading and watching your backcountry exploits. Here are...	replies 0 views 5172	By admin 2014-04-03
	Vote for a fellow Canadian! 2014-04-02 By Darin Langhorst Hey everybody, if you are looking to do your good deed for the day and want to support one of the few, if not the ONLY, Canadian entry in the Know...	replies 0 views 1658	By Darin Langhorst 2014-04-02
	Scot Schmidt the Legend - VIDEO 2014-04-02 By skifreak Now at over 50 years old Scot Schmidt still rips it almost as good as ever. He was the original free skier in the 80's and looked up to by...	replies 0 views 2316	By skifreak 2014-04-02
	Greg Hill's March Madness - did he do it? 2014-04-01 By admin Backcountry skiing superman Greg Hill was on a quest last month to ski tour 100 vertical Kilometers (that's about 328,000 feet) in just 31...	replies 1 views 1828	By 2wheeler 2014-04-02
	shout out to Rab for the Soap Box 2014-03-31 By bootroom Thanks to Rab for the Stratus jacket I got last month from the Soap Box comp. I really got to try it out on Friday night as I spent the...	replies 0 views 1708	By bootroom 2014-03-31
	Soap box comp ends on Monday have you entered? 2014-03-30 By admin Only Today and Monday left to enter the Soap Box Comp and have a chance to win one of 7 huge prizes worth $300-$500 each, have you entered...	replies 0 views 1733	By admin 2014-03-30
	New video animation unveiled 2014-03-26 By admin Its been almost five years that we've been using the same Backcountry Skiing Canada video intro and we thought it was getting a little...	replies 0 views 1645	By admin 2014-03-26
	Salomon FreeskiTVs Spring Break - VIDEO 2014-03-25 By admin In Salomon FreeskiTV’s “Spring Break,” Josh Dueck teams up with Cody Townsend, Josh Daiek and Leah Evans to go big in western...	replies 0 views 1606	By admin 2014-03-25
	Gear of the Year Announced 2014-03-24 By admin We here at Backcountry Skiing Canada take our gear pretty seriously, so when a product is awarded our coveted "Gear of the Year" it's a...	replies 0 views 2175	By admin 2014-03-24
	SOAP BOX COMP Winner of a week for two at Mount Carlyle Lodge 2014-03-21 By admin The Soap Box Comp has just over a week remaining before we draw for the final round of prizes April 1st (no joke) but today we have drawn the...	replies 0 views 2237	By admin 2014-03-21
	Getting Lippe 2014-03-20 By ruari (Soap Box Comp entry) ; Words fail Fiordland, that dank tangle of diorite walls, dark fiords and darker clouds, far away...	replies 1 views 2238	By ruari 2014-03-20
	Final day out with Marmot and Exum Guides in Jackson Hole 2014-03-19 By admin Our third and final day in Jackson Hole culminated with a guided slackcountry ski tour just outside the boundaries of Jackson Hole Ski Resort. As...	replies 0 views 4834	By admin 2014-03-19
	Grand Teton National Park Trip -- Day 2 of 3 2014-03-18 By admin02 We already posted about day number one and here are a few words on day two. 'back to Grand Teton National Park but this time our access was...	replies 0 views 2539	By admin02 2014-03-18
	People out East are crazy!.....Soap Box 2014-03-17 By beaurepi People out East are crazy! I know, i'm one of them… I just came back from a trip to Nelson and i've got the Blues big...	replies 2 views 2251	By Dextern 2014-03-26
$Thanks Rab but \$	Thanks Rab but \"holly zippers Batman\"---Soap Box 2014-03-17 By bootroom Thanks Rab for the AL Pull on but what is with the deep...no deep zipper I think I am in the tour to Giro. But all joking aside this is a...	replies 0 views 1451	By bootroom 2014-03-17

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