…seasons change, but some years winter hangs on longer than usual. Our Utah and Cali brethren and sistren may have easily accessible turns ALL YEAR LONG with 700+ inches they’ve received. Hallelujah. We are doing alright ourselves in the PNW. Dual sport and tri-sport days are a plenty right now. MTB and BC skiing are …
Well, I’m icing my knee and taking ibuprofen… again. This winter has thrown some curve balls, but when you already didn’t have an ACL in your knee for the last ten years you can’t blow it again… you just make the knee swollen, angry, and the bone-on-bone sections grind painfully. Ugh. Still, not a lot …
There is definitely a persistent weak layer to be wary of since the early snow at the ground level has become quite rotten. I hate to say it, but we likely need a significant weather event (rain… probably) to saturate down into that junk, or to create an ice bridge. Stay safe friends, and in …
Well, it’s that time of year where… I switch my local forecast observations from what is happening in town to what is happening in the mountains. I usually have multiple tabs on my browser open (e.g. NOAA, snowforecast.com, webcams from the ski hill and mountain passes, etc.) in hopes to ascertain where the snow will …
Happy Thanksgiving BC ski amigos (in North America)! The local hills are close to bare in my neck of the woods, but ULLR (the norse snow god) has brought a few feet of snow a couple hours north in the Selkirks. I had the fortunate opportunity to sneak up there on Saturday and get my …
A text and email thread began last night about skiing this week. It took most of us by surprise since this group lives in the lower 48, but the Kootenay Boundary Forecast by Avalanche Canada has just started to forecast and apparently there is 72cm (approx 30in) of snow to slide upon. They say the …
Any backcountry ski friends tracking the headlines this week pertaining to the website backcountry.com? Well, since I had just locked and loaded my little website URL this summer with the word “backcountry” in the title, I waited and watched the headlines closely this week. Backcountry.com appeared to be bullying other companies by sending “cease and …
For those in the western US there is some serious moisture passing through. Check your local forecasts models to see if the temps are agreeable for snowfall up high. Two BC ski friends pointed out the following… The Cascades will see feet of snow. One friend is headed to Mt Rainier to check out the …
Feel free to skip down if you don’t want to read my musing and are here just for the BC ski links round-up! As I was crafting this second edition on a hot Smo-August (smokey August) day, I kept thinking back to one of my most memorable late summer turns. After taco-ing my meniscus on …
BC Ski Friends! Please forgive this slightly different email delivery method, but know it’s still me/Landon sending my weekly-ish email about backcountry skiing, splitboarding, and general winter awesomeness. The Backcountry Ski Friends email list has grown pretty long over the last few years. It includes friends from dawn patrols, powder hours, ski hill parking lot …