Month: February 2004

First Ride of the Year

Posted on by Smoke

Here ya go. The first ride of the year for me. I’ve got a little animation in this update, so if your computer slows down, I apologize. Just playing around with technology.

Anyway, I went out for a special occasion. Paul Chetwynd (Chizzer) was in town this winter from Japan. Paul was one of our top racers back in the early ’80’s. He married a nice girl from Japan years ago and has been running a tour service there for several years. He decided to try the freeride side of the sport this winter.

These shots are from the day I got him to shed his panties.

Chizzer on CBC.

More of Chiz on CBC.

Hi tech animated shot of Chiz going the wrong way on CBC.

We got into some old trails that are being redone on Seymour. A bit too Fromme in nature for my tastes, but killer work by Jacques and company.

Yours truly dropping a four footer to tranny.

Tom taking the two foot line on the same stunt.

…and me again hitting a five footer to tranny near the end of the trail.

Till we meet again…..

Valhalla Powder

Posted on by Smoke

OK, back to the sports. It’s been a few days since the last update. What can I say? Barb got back from the UK on Valentines Day so I’ve been, ahhhh……busy. We also did some skiing, but it was only more of the same knee deep under grey skies so we got no pics to show for it. Just lots of vert.

Here’s a few shots of the Cat Skiing Day that I had two weeks ago. As usual, only crappy pics. The skiing was pretty good so there wasn’t much time to take shots. A bunch of Yankees, a couple of Aussies, a German, and a couple of dumb Canooks. Average of 20-30 cm ski penetration, and a bit of avalanche debris to dodge here and there. Unbelievable terrrain. If you are going to go cat skiing, go HERE.

Here’s the crew getting ready.

Some alpine terrain looking north towards Valhalla Prov. Park.

Some of the sub-alpine terrain. Too much fun.

I thought this was Droop, but it was one of the foreigners instead. Whatever.

Perfect tree skiing.

Too bad I didn’t get more pics. I guess I’ll just have to go back.

Next update…..bike pictures!!

Whitewater Powder

Posted on by Smoke

Well, it wasn’t all powder and sunny skies. There was also much drinking and strangeness.

For instance, I’m pretty sure that this is neither natural nor a good idea.

I guess that’s the sort of thing that you see on Bob Marley’s birthday.

Then there’s this. I don’t really know what to make of it, but I figure ya shoudn’t mess with a midget in a pink one piece.

OK, back to the skiing.

Holt in 5 mile.

Safety first.

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That’s only because the storm snow all slid off. There was about three miles of crown varying from 40-80 cm thick all around this basin. Luckily we found a few areas that were sheltered from the avvies, but of course I have no pics of that. Too good to stop, eh?

Here’s Heath pretending he knows what he’s doing.

A couple more mediocre backcountry shots and I’m out.

I’ll be the better part of a week before the next update. Barb gets back today after being in the UK for six weeks, so I’l be — ahhh — busy.

Have a Happy Valentines Day.