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Farnham Glacier

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rudager
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alright, i searchbarred it, it was all old news, and the regionals are nearly as active as i want them to be. so lets get down to the brass taxes here.

This weekend im planning on going, i know ski racers are training and basically i want to know if you can just walk onto it? can you bring a sled? and will the racers care?

thank you
Aug 29 2007 12:45PM
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*rkp*
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i think it's more of a semi-private training facility, but saying that i'm sure that no one would kick you out if you went.
Aug 29 2007 12:52PM
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connoroh
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yea its sorta semi-private. the canadian mogul team and most mogul teams train there a lot too. but Ontario and Canada are in hood right now, so fuck the racers and go
Aug 29 2007 3:27PM
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rudager
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awesome, is it sled accesable? will they care if a sled goes on?
Aug 29 2007 3:39PM
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Pipe_Munky
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seeing as it is a glacier and august im going to guess that it's not sled accessable. im pretty sure they will be pretty pissed if you bring a sled seeing as though it's a private training facility.

let's put it this way, would high north or momentum care if you showed up to ride their park on a sled?



Aug 29 2007 3:56PM
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AhrenStein
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why go to farnham when there are other glaciers around and their will be no body
Aug 29 2007 5:03PM
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Nadia.
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I've been to Farnham for skierx, its government and private funded. There are also access gates twice along the drive up, which takes about an hour. During the winter RK heli-ski uses the terrain for drops. If you went poaching up there you'd be run off the glacier. I don't suggest it.

Here are some photos... May national skierx camp, nothing like a little cat skiing and freshies on the tax payers dollar.

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They have satelitte TV up there, full kitchen, gym, oh, and a SICK gymnastics tramp in the snow.
Aug 29 2007 9:05PM
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Pipe_Munky
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^those pics give a much better idea of the facility than any magazine article i've read on the place!

good to see Alpine Canada taking some kind of an interest in skierX. too bad the discipline needs to be developed at the grassroots level to really start producing skiers for when we get it into the olympics.



Aug 30 2007 11:08AM
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Nadia.
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Haha, actually skierx isn't under alpine Canada, it's under snowsports Canada, it was initially under freestyle but then they realized that aerialists and mogul skiers don't make good skierx athletes.

We already have a lot of the top skierx athletes in the world, Davey Barr, Brian Bennett, Ashleigh McIvor, Aleisha Cline, Anik Demers, Stan Hayer etc. But yeah, the program is starting from nothing, it's a little disorganized and there isn't a real pool of athletes to select from, should be interesting though, I think we've got a really good shot at some medals in 2010. I ran the cypress course in April and its soooooooooo much fun.

But yeah, Farnham is sick.
Aug 30 2007 3:05PM
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rudager
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so its not an ideal place to go for some good ol' recreational skiing?
Aug 30 2007 6:25PM
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Nadia.
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Haha nope, we got 3inches of pow, not bad for may/june. But yeah they are owned by RK heli ski, there's some sick terrain up there that they use in the winter. We weren't allowed off marked terrain much because of all the crevasses.

If you have a sled and want to go somewhere, just go to like... revelstoke or someplace else. You'd get run off the glacier at Farnham.
Aug 30 2007 7:52PM
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ESAND
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If its not illegal to be there you should go ahead. Fuck being run off, just bring some friends and pack some nines and see who tries to run you off.
Aug 31 2007 12:12AM
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Nadia.
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Seeing as I've said TWICE now that the land is PRIVATELY owned by both RK heli-ski and Canada Olympic Developement Association and the government you'd get a fine for tresspassing. Its a bad idea, and there are PLENTY of better places to sled.
Aug 31 2007 12:37AM
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rudager
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alright, im not going to take my chances, especcially since there is 2 gates.
Aug 31 2007 12:45AM
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ESAND
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Oh well in that case i'd recommend bringing the ak's
Aug 31 2007 1:15AM
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