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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.
I may be in Montreal, but it's hard to not want to be back in Revelstoke, pulling out radical bird impersonations:
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.
It hadn't snowed in three or four days, so we all slept in anticipating icy crap on the mountain, and eventually set off on what we assumed would be a short and average day some time after 11am.
Little did we know, it would turn out to be one of the most freakin radical days in the history of the universe.
Bluebird skies, waist deep powder, a pre-made kicker and a seriously awesome nutella sandwich all contributed to some insane fun.
Click read more to see the pics from the day, and apologies about the length (I'm splitting this post in two, check back for pt. 2), but it was really fun!
There's been some big changes at Getting Stoked over the last week and plenty more to come, so it's time for a bit of an update on what's going on.
The house welcomed a new member, Declan, on New Years Eve, the crew finally got off their arses and rode Greely Bowl, as well as hiking the sub-peak and dropping into the North Bowl from way higher up.
Click read more if you're bored, and get some detail.
Sometimes there's no way to introduce things until after you've seen them. This is one such example.
Made by a snowboarder from Whistler, Robjn Taylor. His short movies are hilarious, check more out here (Dogshirts is a classic too).
Stu, cleverly disguised as a snowboarding Santa, hits the big time with a cover shot on Revelstoke's main page!
Check it out here, wait for the pics to scroll through to the snowboarding Santa shot, or just look below. Printscreen does wonders for lazy people:
On Friday, a lack of energy to charge the hill courtesy of five consecutive days of riding combined with a lack of new snow (for once) finally persuaded Stu to take the camera up to capture some happy snaps.
Suffice to say, there was still enough fresh snow about to make him take his camera duties rather, ah, lightly.
Anyways, click read more to see a few shots from the hill.
