A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to head down to Castle Mountain to cover the new Cat Skiing operation on behalf of WestJet’s Up! Magazine.
You can checkout my article on the Up! Website, but in the meantime here’s a few random helmet cam shots from the day.
Good times!
..there’s also a somewhat embarrassing video [...]
There’s been a fair bit of news lately on gang members shooting out Calgary. Coincidentally there’s a fair bit of news on avalanches and the cost of rescue.
A father and son have been asked to pay $2,500 for triggering a dangerous search and rescue after they snowboarded out of bounds at Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain [...]
Its time to go BC…
This year I have decided that it is finally time to go backcountry. I’ve been wanting to get into it more and more, but this year I’m putting my money where my mouth is. I’m so sick of lift lines, increasing ticket prices, and the dissatisfaction I get when I complete [...]
Figured this would be the best place to recruit some R4NT regulars. Sunday’s supposed to be very nice, and my buddy and I are making the pilgrimmage to play in the terrain park at Sunshine. Any R4NTers are welcome to join!
Also, keyboard pants?
So if you recall a few weeks ago (maybe 2?) I went off heli skiing in Golden. This morning however I saw the following news:
A chopper carrying nine people on a heli-skiing trip in southeastern B.C. crashed near Golden on Thursday, killing the pilot.
The helicopter was on its way back to the Purcell Helicopter [...]
