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 […]
Dolomite Shoulder
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. […]
Creating ‘The Map’ For The New “Confessions of a Ski Bum” Was A 400+ Hour Labor Of Love
Creating “The Map” for New “Confessions of a Ski Bum” Guidebook (unofficialnetworks.com) By Kyle Fiehler “Bum” is an interesting title for someone who’s just spent some 400 hours poring over a passion project involving topographic cartography. Unless that is– this labor of the […]
Crowfoot Glades
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 […]
Puzzle Peak Ramp
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 […]
‘The Map’ Short Film
“How long did it take to write?”, something I’ve been asked a lot since ‘The Icefields Parkway’ guidebook came out. Here’s a peak into the process of creating the topo map which you will find in the new book by […]
Hector South Ridge
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 […]
Copper Mountain
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 […]
Copper Bowl
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 […]
Panorama Ridge
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 […]
Sherbrooke Lake
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 […]
Puzzle Peak Ramp Loop
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 […]
Cirque Forepeak
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 […]
Observation Peak
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 […]
Dolomite Shoulder
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 […]
Bow Summit
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 […]
Observation Sub Peak Recon
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 […]
Noseeum Creek
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 […]
Bow Summit Rogue
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 […]