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It was with a weird sense of excitement and relief that I crossed back into Canada. The time in the States was awesome, I had so much fun, but it never really felt like MY country - it always felt like it was a little too different to be normal.
Canada, on the other hand, feels like home, and so it was a sense of homecoming that I crossed the border back to the Great White North.
Click read more to see just how flipping rad Canada is in summer!
This blog has been overwhelmingly pro-snowboarding since its inception, with colourful pics and happy stories that paint a picture that snowboarding is a good, fun, awesome sport.
Lies. All lies.
Click read more for an enthralling journey on Why I Hate Snowboarding.
Slackcountry - Using resort lifts to reach a backcountry area - i.e hiking to an area outside the ski boundary from the top of the resort's lifts. As opposed to Backcountry where altitude gain is done entirely by foot and is not within a resort boundary.
As I write this, Revelstoke's out of bounds victim tally stands as follows:
* Two dead
* 13 nights spent outside
* 12 helicopter rescues
It's a haunting reminder of how easily things can go wrong outside the ski boundary, when people head out unprepared, without the right gear, or in stupid conditions.
It also weighs on your mind when you duck the rope for a hike out of bounds, even if it's just outside the controlled area.
Click read more for my perspective on hiking out of bounds.
The title says it all.
Every time I meet someone new the conversation always goes the same way:
Person: 'So, how long are you here for?'
Stu: 'Oh, I'm here for the season then doing a road trip through the US.'
Person: 'Okay, so what are you doing here?'
Stu: 'I'm snowboarding.'
Person: 'Yeah, but what sort of work are you doing?'
Stu: 'No, I'm just snowboarding.'
Person: 'I don't understand...'
Click read more to continue...
Apologies for a lack of posts, there's a whole bunch of photo-related things but they're on a memory card which does not want to share its electronic delights with my laptop...
Anyway, in better news, the snow is about to arrive, and arrive biiiiiig:
Powderrrr daaaays ahead (ignore the brutally high freezing level... damn you El Nino)
Forecast courtesy of snow-forecast.com and some awesome print screen/paint skills. Wait, no, skillz. Yeah.
Paz slaying a drop near the top of Meet the Neighbours. Fair to say the neighbours were suitably impressed.
It hasn't snowed in a while at Revelstoke, the hill is crap, moguly and hardpacked and it's about time we do something about it.
In times of crisis, there's only one person to turn to... God.
Or, more specifically, Ullr, the Nordic snow-god.
Description, courtesy of Breckenridge's website - which has a week-long festival dedicated to Ullr:
'In Norse mythology Ullr (pronounced Oool-er) was the winter god. He was the son of Sif and the stepson of Thor, the "God of Thunder." Ullr loved the cold, and delighted in traveling over the country on his skis or skates. He also delighted in the chase, and pursued his game through the Northern Forests.'
Let us pray:
* Crap video, sweet prayer
** Snow is coming tomorrow night so something must be working!
I may be in Montreal, but it's hard to not want to be back in Revelstoke, pulling out radical bird impersonations:
We happened across a group of paragliders at the end of a day out near Jalapeno, and with Paz on camera duties, picked up some sweet shots of a seriously awesome activity.
These shots are actually of the second dude who took off, the first guy cocked up royally and crashed on the takeoff. He was okay, his friends laughed at him.
Click read more to see the rest.
Part two of the Freeskiing World Tour event from Revelstoke, click read more to check out the rest of the pics.
We headed out to Greely Bowl today to check out the final of the Freeskiing Tour event at Revelstoke, and the journey was worth it with some ridiculous skiing on show.
We settled in with a couple of beers, made some mini snow-caves and cheered our hearts out from the ridge looking into the competition area, alongside a big crowd that turned out to watch the event.
The highlight of the day was undoubtedly the monster 100ft (we judged it to be anyways) cliff drop that one of the competitors did - we were too far away from the finishing area to hear the names, but I was told later it was the second place-getter.
Click read more to see some shots of that drop, and a host of other cool stuff.
I'm splitting this post in two because there's lots of pics so it'll save some loading time. Enjoy!
Dec had his camera out today, it was a bit foggy so the shots aren't that clear, but they show pretty well the sorta stuff we were riding.
With a fresh dusting overnight (somewhere around 5cms I'd guess, the actual snow report is always wrong...) we rode Conifers of Gnarnia (skiers' right of the Gondola) for most of the day, which consisted of small drops, big drops, trees and more drops.
Oh, and Stu and Dec had a wicked crash... but no pics of that. Click read more to see the pics of the day.
On the second run of the day we found a pre-made jump on the hike past Jalapeno, over the ridge.
After a quick glance to make sure no one was going to kick our butts for stealing their jump, we sessioned it for more than an hour, with Croz on camera duties early and everyone else sharing the load towards the end.
Click read more to check out the pics, they're pretty sweeeeet.
