Year: 2018

Spent another day at Paget Glades with Anna Elkins where we found the snow had become more supportive for skiing than previous days. There were plenty of people in the parking lot but somehow we only came across two of […]

I spent the last two days (Dec 14 & 15) in the Paget Glades area skiing laps between 1800m and 2000m with Anna Elkins (14th) and Heather Burbidge (15th). During that short time I have noticed the recent storm snow […]

Went up to Hector South Ridge, Southern Unnamed Peak today with Rob Mazc, James MacNeil-Mah and Taylor Sullivan. We remote triggered several avalanches while walking along the ridge and at the flat highpoint. Skinning up to treeline is now pretty […]

Did a skills day with Laura Kos and Sierra Y today on Dolomite Shoulder. The shoulder and lower bowl ski like resort chop, there’s still a few pockets of nice snow but not enough to make a return visit. Treeline […]

After 10 years of looking at and getting turned around over a dozen times Melissa Tremblay and I skied Fatigue Mountain’s southwest face in near prefect loose dry snow conditions today. Yesterday I mentioned to Vince Goyette that I was […]

Did another lap up to the summit of Observation Sub Peak today with Hannah Rebecca Smith and Vince Goyette, this time we also went to the slightly lower east peak before skiing the southwest aspect. Great, fast travel all the […]

Anna Elkins and I did a little walk up to mid-treeline below Dolomite Shoulder today. She has just gotten over a month long flu so it’s a great little forest lap to grab some quick exercise. Some of the skin […]

Today Fred Heikoop, Brandon Gulstene and I did a lap down the south aspect of Observation Sub Peak from the summit. The access via the south ridge to the summit is in great shape, we only took our skis off […]

Anna Elkins and I did a quick sidecountry lap in the low angle trees behind Paradise Chair at Lake Louise today. The snow is shallow and facetted but if you stay light on your feet it actually skis pretty good. […]

Today I was back on Dolomite Shoulder with Caroline Gleich and Rob Lea in near prefect weather. We remote triggered a size 1.5 soft slab avalanche on the east aspect slope that is found a little north of the lower […]

Skied a chill lap on Observation Sub Peak South Ridge/Face area with Kieran Crimeen, Caroline Gleich and Rob Lea today. We headed up the forest of Cirque Forepeak, wrapped around the west ridge and into the treeline valley. Followed a […]

Skied some fantastic snow on Dolomite Shoulder today with Jason, James MacNeil-Mah, Rob Mazc and Bronwyn Fullagar. Skinned up to treeline where we started to get good views of the rock slide on Puzzle Peak Ramp, this sight is wild. […]

Went to the Crowfoot Glades are today with Kieran Crimeen, Fred Heikoop, James MacNeil-Mah and Jason – I haven’t been there yet this year so was keen to see what conditions were like. We skinned up near the Pillow Drainage […]

Headed up to Puzzle Peak Ramp today with Mike Brown, David Aschim and Veronica Jarlehag where we found some great snow and weather. Followed the ski hill style packed out access to trimline and took the direct creek skin track […]

Spent the last two days skiing the Hector South Ridge area. Yesterday was with Kaitlin Paris where we spent the day working on skills and lapping powder. Today Fred Heikoop, Briony Williamson and Rob Mazc spent the day skiing downhill […]

Just got back from another long day on Copper Mountain, this time with Kieran Crimeen. Today the objective was the south bowl from the south sub peak. We skinned up Redearth Creek Trail starting at 8am for about 8km before […]

Skied 3 fantastic runs in Copper Bowl today with Mike Brown. Parked at Castle Junction on the 93S and followed the Altrude Creek (Twin Lakes) Trail for about 6km before leaving it at about 1950m. We skinned up the forest […]

Went for a lap on Panorama Ridge (east lower) today with Briony Williamson and Fred Heikoop. Skinned up to Taylor Lake and onward toward the lower east ridge of Panorama Ridge. There was an old skin track almost all the […]

Anna Elkins and I went for a tour up to Sherbrooke Lake today to check on snow levels for the area. This is great option to get the legs moving if you haven’t been out yet and don’t care if […]

Did a big loop on the Puzzle Peak Ramp run today with Kaitlin Paris and Adrian Thibault. Followed the very packed skin track up through the forest and along the drainage below the east aspect of Dolomite Shoulder. Found several […]

Skied a run from the looker’s left summit ridge of Cirque Forepeak today with Kieran Crimeen, Trevor Dingman and Rhea Walle. We parked across from Jimmy Jr Bowl and followed our skin track from a few days ago up to […]

Skied the roadside area of Observation Peak (border rolling ribs between Main and Sub Peak) with Kieran Crimeen, Jane O’Hara, Brent Flavien Saulnier and Joël Desgreniers. Lots of people out and about today, looks like people had a great time […]

Skied Dolomite Shoulder today with Kaitlin Paris, Ian MacNairn and Graeme David in stellar weather and on great snow. We followed a track up to the base of the treeline ridge area where we left it to climb the steeper […]

Did a chill tree skiing day at Bow Summit with Anna Elkins and Kaitlin Paris this morning. Much colder today and a bit of wind as we broke treeline. Lots of ridge top winds blowing snow around. Snow was excellent […]

Headed up the 93N today with Anna Elkins and Kaitlin Paris to go for a recon walk. After heading up the forest on Cirque Forepeak we decided to instead head towards the south aspect of Observation Sub Peak. We skinned […]

Today Daniel Thomson (Story of a Ski Tour) and I headed out to get a few shots for the upcoming film about making the map found in the book. We drove to Bow Summit but the parking area is closed […]

I decided late last night to head up to Bow Summit today after being sick for almost 2 weeks and debating if I was well enough to ski again. I met up with Nicole Kelly, Mitchell Stagg, Jackie LaRouche, Andrew […]

Went for a quick solo afternoon lap at Bow Summit to check out how the snow was doing. I got skinning around noon and was on the south shoulder by 1pm-ish. Skied the north aspect and found a thin breakable […]

Went back to Bow Summit this morning, this time with Brie Hogan. We skied a couple of laps in the South Shoulder Roadside Bowl and finished with a lap on the north aspect of the South Shoulder from the top. […]

Checked out Bow Summit this morning with Anna Elkins, Nicole Kelly, Jackie LaRouche and Tj Larouche. Beautiful but cold morning, valley clouds and warm sun above treeline. We skinned up the south shoulder and took a lap down and into […]

Sawyer Teale Ellingboe and I hiked up to Temple Lake and got a good look at the bad conditions in Aemmer Couloir. The trail up the creek is in ok condition, once closer to the lake the snow gets deeper […]

Chris Moneypenny and I skied a quick lap in the South Shoulder Chute at Bow Summit this morning. Followed the summer trail until hitting the more obvious road feature where we started to skin. Followed the trail until the south […]

Left Lake Louise this morning at 4:30am with Brie Hogan and headed up to Moraine Lake with our sights on 3/4 Couloir. Got some great reports from a couple of parties over the last week but unfortunately conditions seem to […]

Skied the bottom half of Cobra Couloir this morning with Luke Seed where we found excellent snow and travel. After two days of steady snowfall at valley bottom I knew Cobra Couloir could hold some good turns. Anna Elkins had […]