So this is how my trip when down,
It was the roadtrips of roadtrips lots of powder, beer, and it was all done on the smallest budget ever-
We ski bummed right across BC, potching AC power for the electric heater in the jeep anywhere we could-
This is the story in as little detail as possible-
I arived in Vancouver from ottawa on the Jan 14, then proceeded to drive with a buddy (Ryan) for over 8 hours to Rossland, bc home of red mountain,
The freeskiing challange on at red mountain, sick contest, but an even sicker mountain, i was really impressed, Red mountain KICKS ass, Ski bumming in a jeep we incountered a bigger group of ski bums, in the red mountain parking lot, 5 people lived on the 'the PowderBus' 2 of the Treadway's where rocking in a Camo Boiler trailer- Ryan made the finals in the competition which was his goal to start off with-
Skied 4 days at Red-
then it was off to nelson- 1 day
Whitewater had no snow, so it was a bit disapointing- but we did end up doing a cool urban jib, and the RCMP even watched us session it, that was cool
from nelson we drove to
-Ferine where we stayed at a friends house for 4 days, although Fernie didn't have much powder, the price was right, we hiked up each day and potched the lifts. 4 days spent generaly drunk or whatnot in ferine- (bonus points to the bar tenders at the Royal Great PUB) but too many Aussies in fernie- In fernie we heard about the 1st avalanche that claimed the lives of Craig Kelly and others in Revelsoke- a sad loss for those friends of the involed- RIP
from fernie it was up to Panorama-
Panorama- I potched there parc for a day walking up only to discover that they didn't check lift passes on the park chair- After that wonderful discovery another full day of park potching was had- Panorama had great rails set up, but there pipes and jumps where somewhat lacking- Also the powder at the top of Panarama had no base so there was lots of rocks
-no real skiing to be had on this shitty snow year-
from panorama we drove to Rogers Pass we camped out behind a pool for a night at a Best Western-
then the next few days where spent on a Backcountry tour- at the Alsukan Cabin, a major snowstorm the first night gave us endless powder for 4 days- true alpine touring- big powder lines- best skiing i've ever done hands down-
Feb 1st=KICking horse
after that amazing trek it was on to Golden and the coveted kicking horse- Althought we only had one day there- Kicking horses terrain rivaled Whistlers backcountry, lucky us we showed up on a moring after it just dumped some fresh-
I wish i could have skied more of KH-
then it was an 8 hour drive back to Vancouver lucky us we ran out of gas on the highway near chillawack BC at about 1 in the morning that sucked-
Feb.2 Moving back to whistler- yet to come
To sum it up the trip was amazing altough i could write 20 pages on the journey i'll spare all the details, but it was some of the best skiing i've ever done
Craig
'I'm still Ugly'
