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            <title><![CDATA[Rogers Conditions Report]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A quick report on conditions in Rogers Pass. &amp;nbsp;Access up Connaught is thin which isn&amp;#39;t much of an issue for access but more so for egress. You have two options either walk the trail for a couple hundred meters on just point it and hope for the best. &amp;nbsp;Above 1600m is where the skiing is happening right now with little to no options below that elevation range Depths of 50 cm , deadfall , rocks and broken dreams prevail. &amp;nbsp;Around 1800m-2000m it&amp;#39;s full on winter. The warming event of last week left the snowpack isothermal ( moist ) and above that sits about 40-60 cms of snow ( where I was poking around ). Things have bonded reasonably well and stability has been quite good. &amp;nbsp;I have attached a few quick video&amp;#39;s and photos as they do a better job describing the conditions than me and my keyboard. Get out there, it&amp;#39;s worth it!&amp;nbsp;

Spot the skier&amp;nbsp;
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Seriously , go.
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            <pubDate>2016-11-19 20:07:11</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Help Us Revive Lodging in Rogers Pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The purpose of Revive Rogers is to bring backcountry users together to engage Parks Canada on lodging redevelopment in Rogers Pass. If you support lodging redevelopment in Rogers Pass we need three things from you:

1) Sign our Change.org petition to Parks Canada and the Canadian Government.

2) Complete our SURVEY to tell us what type of lodging you want to see.

3) Like us on facebook&amp;nbsp;to stay connected to the issue and receive updates.

We believe that an environmentally sustainable accommodation facility, acting as a hub for Rogers Pass visitors, will enhance visitor safety &amp;amp; enjoyment, backcountry access and compliance with the Park&amp;rsquo;s winter permit and backcountry access system.






As many of you are aware, on October 19th, 2016 Parks Canada announced it will tear down the lodge, remediate the area, and potentially consider redevelopment. However, at this point redevelopment remains uncertain, and I have been told they are leaning away from a lodge with any meaningful capacity.

Make sure you have your say!
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            <pubDate>2016-11-16 15:07:47</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rogers Pass Terrain Atlas.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[


Now that Canada day has come and gone we can begin looking forward to getting the remainder of the summer out of the way. Some of us will go on vacation, some will do summer sports and other will sit at home pouting , cruising google earth and guide books until October. If you happen to be a summer pouter then I have a summer reading assignment for you. The famed Rogers Pass backcountry ski paradise is located in Glacier National between Golden and Revelstoke and while a comprehensive guidebook has been released in the last two years ( see here. http://www.geobackcountry.com/book ) I am a firm believer that more photos never hurt and one can never have too many photos.

Mt Avalanche

As with any government website the useful information can be buried in obscurity and can be easily missed and the Glacier National Park website is no different. Hidden deep in the click through links is a terrain photo atlas loaded with hundred of terrain photos that cover almost every square centimetre of the park. The Atlas is a PDF document that is broken down into zone subsections or alternatively you could download the entire atlas in a photo ready high-resolution PDF file. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;ve gone through the trouble of finding it and I thought I would share it with the Backcountry Skiing Canada community. Be sure to bookmark this page as only the magic combination of keywords on google will unlock it for you should you lose this link. Happy day dreaming. http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/.....iv1/b.aspx


Flat Creek-Mount Slick]]></description>
            <pubDate>2016-07-06 09:18:35</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SE face Terminal Peak- Trevor Sexsmith.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Trevor Sexsmith does it again.  This time in the Selkirk mountains skiing the south east face of Terminal peak in Rogers pass. In true Sexsmith fashion the line while obvious might not be in everyone&amp;#39;s &amp;ldquo; fun stuff to do &amp;ldquo; spectrum but Trevor keeps ticking these things off. As always he has documented this one in a well written blog post with photos and a video to accompany the descent. http://perpetualski.ca/2016/04/cyge/
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P: Trevor Sexsmith
Once you have read that one it&amp;#39;s worth having a read of his other exploits. He has been busy these last few years but keeps flying under the radar despite of some serious ski mountaineering successes. Follow his blog and like his page on Facebook!]]></description>
            <pubDate>2016-04-06 14:15:05</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Looking for experienced touring partner for Feb. 22, 2016 touring]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I&amp;#39;m visiting from Utah and would like to backcountry ski tomorrow, Monday Feb. 22. Anybody want to head out with me? I don&amp;#39;t know the area, and would love to go with an experienced bc skier who knows the local snowpack well.
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            <pubDate>2016-02-21 16:40:47</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rogers pass condition update!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Well things are starting to look good up there! Lots of new snow and wind so we stuck to the trees which was fine with me! 30 over night 15 or so during the day and another last night. Game on! Get after it!&amp;nbsp;
got 17 seconds? Visual condition report!&amp;nbsp;




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            <pubDate>2014-11-24 18:02:59</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[March Rogers day tours- Soap Box]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[March has been a hard month for ski touring. The forecast just hasn&amp;#39;t been co-operative, so many days of 1-2cm&amp;#39;s over the day. So not an big dump where the trees will be refreshed and awesome, not clear high pressure for a few days for things to settle out and get up high on big alpine, just a constant in-between that&amp;#39;s good for neither. This is the story of a couple of those days where we were skunked by constant weather.

March 15th, I was looking to ski something out of the resort after the storm passed. The weather looked to be not doing us any favours, so I went up to the pass with a few smaller options in mind. Then all the permit areas were closed due to computer difficulties. So we headed up Glacier Crest through some nasty crust. Close to the top, snow conditions started to improve, the temp crust mostly disappeared and pow became abundant.



After the fog rolled in and killed what was left of the visibility, we thought we had found the top of the S couloir. So we dropped in and skied some pow




Then more pow on the moraines back to the car



We were hoping to combine the S couloir with another ascent to Perley rock but the skiing was only becoming more by braille so we decided against Perley rock as it is a big wide open moraine run.

A week later, and it was time to go to the pass again. The forecast looked like partial sun/cloud. Little did we know. We wanted to do North Bowl or Nikki&amp;#39;s Notch on Cheops to get a handle on how things were doing, and then go for STS if it looked good. The wind was blowing like a mother and transporting snow, but things felt good enough to go straight for Nikki&amp;#39;s



There were a few strange little wind slabs in Nikki&amp;#39;s. They didn&amp;#39;t amount to much, but the extra few degrees of steepness on STS and the sheer length of it made us decide against an STS attempt. So we went back up to ski North Bowl. The skin track after Balu Pass was completely filled in by the crossloading snow. North bowl was good fun and better snow than Nikki&amp;#39;s



You can also see that STS was self-purging in sluffs all day. So much for our weather window.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-03-31 22:49:36</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SOAP BOX COMP - The Asulkan Cabin, Young&#039;s Peak &amp;amp; Forever Young Couloir.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A long awaited trip to the Asulkan Cabin in Rogers Pass started to hit the skids just as we started getting close enough to start packing and planning for it. Having booked the place out with a group of friends the previous summer, I got to within a week of departure when I finally caved in to to the ongoing toe pain I&amp;#39;d been suffering following a mixed case of toe bang and frostbite. A trip to a skier-friendly doctor who was eager to save my trip left me with a gaping wound where half my regrowing big toenail had been.&amp;nbsp;
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;

That left me with seven days for the wound to heal up enough to jam it in a ski boot for four days - five days to decide whether it was worth starting to pack or whether I should just pull the pin and sit this one out. After a few days of pessimistic hobbling around it started to feel a whole lot better and some emergency boot work gave me a glimmer of hope. Meanwhile other complications started to threaten the trip - staff no shows that endangered time off, avalanche rescue involvements understandably spooked some, contract exchanges on house sales delayed others.

Just as things came together last minute the snow that Rogers Pass is famous for then threw a final spanner in the works. A warm and heavy storm was due to close the highway on the morning of our departure and left the avi conditions worryingly high for a skin through the convergence of major slide paths known as the mousetrap. After some group discussions we agreed to let things settle and postpone the trip for 24 hours, reducing from three nights to two.

When we finally made it to the Discovery Centre the next day our perseverance was rewarded with a rare bluebird day in the Pass and incredible views as we started to lug our packs up to the cabin.



On the final stretch towards the hut with the Asulkan Valley Trans Canada Highway below:



After a long slog with heavy packs we finally made it to the hut. Having agonized over, and often regretted, how many beers I lugged in, I was extremely happy for a cold one. 
We dumped our main bags, had a quick break, and then went to enjoy our first turns in the tree triangle. The next morning we awoke to another clear day and so went to make the most of it, skinning into the alpine above the hut to check out the conditions. With the snow feeling stable we started to head to the foot of the Young&amp;#39;s Peak Headwall to see if the summit might be feasible.

At this point our group of nine decided to split into more manageable groups, with some of us deciding to continue up the headwall to the summit of Young&amp;#39;s Peak. Pictures don&amp;#39;t do the sheer magnitude of the mountains and terrain here justice:


Some tracks from some of our party could be seen far below, heading towards the Pterodactyl. The hut is also just about visible far below on the left:


Obilgatory summit shot on top of Young&amp;#39;s:


After some snacks and some time soaking in the views we dropped in to enjoy the slightly wind effected but dry snow on the Young&amp;#39;s Headwall. Stoked:

It was so good a couple of us decided to skin straight back up to the summit for second lap whilst some of the others split to head to either the Triangle Moraine or the Seven Steps of Paradise.

Spot the skier:

With stability having felt so good and with yet another clear day in the forecast a few of us starting hatching plans for a bigger objective for our final morning: the Forever Young Couloir. Three of our group therefore found ourselves on the skin track for Young&amp;#39;s Peak once again the next morning. Making short work of the ascent we were at the summit before lunch, ready to find our way across a very windy ridgeline to the entrance of the couloir.


We were lucky to have such good visibility in spite of the wind as we had a heavily corniced ridgeline to safely negotiate. Looking down:

And back up:

Feeling small:


And getting to the entrance where it became apparent that two people had beaten us to it and made a descent of the couloir the previous day:


Not to be put off and still with plenty of room for fresh tracks inside, we got ready to drop in. A few careful turns at the top assessing the snow revealed stable but deep and very sluffy conditions. Shortly after the three of us were safely out the bottom - hooting, hollering and making the most of the seemingly endless pow turns we got to enjoy from the fan of the couloir all the way back to the bottom of the tree triangle.


Skiing a Roger&amp;#39;s Pass classic steep line&amp;nbsp;before lunch on our final morning was the best end imaginable to what had already been an unforgettable trip.&amp;nbsp;








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            <pubDate>2014-03-31 03:34:18</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[roger pass skiing best ever; soak box comp]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[3 french canadians had 2 wonderful days&amp;nbsp; in this area near Asulkan hut. Sun and snow. What could you except more then that? Our girl friends was missing.&amp;nbsp;
We had 4 marvellous days of skiing in Glacier crest and Asulkan valley. To bad we had to get back home! hopefully we will be back in this powder paradise]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-03-28 13:41:41</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Urus Minor West Face- SOAP BOX COMP]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We drove up to the Pass today hoping to get up Sifton and ski the backside North face. Unfortuately for our plans, Hermit WRA was closed, as were most of the other restricted areas. So we decided to go for the West face of Ursus Minor mountain, as we had already figured out our approach, and were just keeping it for later. Temps were -1 at 1300m, and we had ~5cm of super light fresh snow last night, a nice bonus that wouldn&amp;#39;t upset conditions, and the sky went full bluebird when we got to the pass.
The route

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I&amp;#39;ll keep approach and exit verbage to a minimum as there is tons of beta on just about every ski area at the pass. There was a rain crust below ~1800m, skin tracks to Hospital Knob and Ursus Trees were great. We brought ski crampons, boot crampons and an ice axe, as last time we did the ascent up SE Ursus to the col we only had ski crampons, and wished we had it all. This time though, we needed literally none of it, not even for a little bit. Travel conditions were awesome. Looking back over to Grizzly, we saw Greg Hill and co. heading up to get backside Grizzly apparently. Not sure if they were successful. Seems they hit a shallow spot (which Grizz ascent route is covered with) and caused a small wet avalanche. They seemed all fine though.
Lookin fine in the sunshine, the ski ascent to Ursus col
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Skintrack stoke
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After reaching the col we booted off to lookers left to get a good look at the west face. Seemed a bit wind affected at the very top, but the rest looked all-time. So we put skis on backpacks and scrambled up toward the peak. The skiing was phenomenal to say the least, the vid says more than I could in text!
Looking into the W bowl off the scouting hike
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The scramble route to the peak
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Shred it!! 







700m of sustained glory
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After we got to the bottom, we were discussing whether to skin partway up the face and exit out the col between Ursus Minor and Video Peak, or head to the next drainage West and go up the Bruins Glacier to Bruins Pass. We decided on the pass as it would be at least an hour till we got off steep terrain on the Ursus-Video col, and the sun was only getting stronger on West aspects. So we headed up Bruins, HS around 250-280. Nice ski down to Hospital Knob, then around 1900m Southerly aspects got gloppy (surprise, surprise). So we made er down and back to the car.Bruins glacier. We&amp;#39;re heading for the col just out of image on the left
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Awesome day, everything went perfect. Well, other than forgetting sunscreen but I can pay for that later. Oh, and not getting our line, but that&amp;#39;s just fine. On the way back to Golden there was a good sized pillow that released above the road right in front of me and covered up the right hand lane in a passing lane stretch, and then back at home my whole roof slid in a size 1.5 or so. It&amp;#39;s a good thing the sun is going away for a while, or everything good might slide out, even in the alpine. Temps 4c at the pass, 8c or so below 1100m.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-03-14 00:35:34</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soap Box Contest-Ursus Minor NE Face]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Well high pressure systems are a total love hate relationship. I want to ski pow, jump of things and ski pillows, but when the sun is shining and there is solid stability, well you try and get out and after it.
Snow had been pretty wind blasted on anything west, and the sun had destroyed anything south facing but i was running out of ideas for good N facing runs. We had skied Mt Green and Cougar Mountain, Mt Macdonald hosts some nice N facing coolies but they seemed to not be filled in enough/just didn&amp;#39;t really look all that great. I was clicking through Greg Hills blog for the Millionth time and re-found this line that I had forgotten about.
The line i found was actually a couloir of sorts on the mountain but we wound up skiing the face instead(more on that later)
Here is my picture from our day, much less filled in than the picture from Gregs blog.


Again, we showed up super ealy as this was going to be a big day and we didn&amp;#39;t want to be short on time if we ran into any trouble back there as you are quite a long way from anywhere once you drop off that side of the mountain.
We hammerd up the skin track and besides a short drink break didn&amp;#39;t stop moving till we reached the col below the scramble to the summit.
We stopped took some pictures and then began the scramble up.

Looking Down


Then not to much pictures from the top as we we&amp;#39;re more worried about finding our way into our line. It was wierd because it starts out on like a 20degree slope but then all of a sudden rolls into a consitant 50, the rollover was scary because you had to work towards it but finding the line entrance was hard. 2 tracks had already entered the N face, and the snow was a bit slabby up high. We opted to ski the Ne face due to there tracks already cutting up the slope, plus we had a clear view top to bottom of the line so it was way easier to commit to.
Skiing Down.


Skiing down the exit couloir in fairly horrible conditions, wind blasted and super icy.

Skinning to our exit col, we opted to use the sifton/little sifton col instead of summiting little sifton via the glacier as we we&amp;#39;re un roped and felt it would be safer to exit via the little sifton traverse.


Skiing to freedom


Suprisingly we actually managed to find some good snow on the way out as well. It was tracked but still nice and soft, till you slightly changed aspects and hit the breakable crust. Still super fun time and a line I&amp;#39;m incredibly stoked on.


It was about a 2000m day and 14km or so as a crow flies(drawing a straight line with google earth) Used my spot and it calculated it to be about a 24km day so not sure how accurate the spot is but it was a decently long day. 9 and a half hours round trip.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-02-19 00:18:50</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soap Box Entry- the drought continues!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[

We have been &amp;nbsp;patiently waiting for ULLR to bless us with his bountiful snowfall creating powers we have been ignored and left with dribs and drabs of meager snowfall amount that total nothing more than trace amounts on our favorite resorts current condition pages. &amp;nbsp;What did we do to possibly deserve this ? Did we not burn enough skis in the name of ULLR? Maybe but what can we do? We have been going crazy waiting for the snow to come and short of sacrificing virgins there isn&amp;#39;t a whole lot we can do. &amp;nbsp;At least we are being blessed with some stable avalanche conditions for a change of pace this season. Time to do some exploraskiing! &amp;nbsp;
Vince and I left the bow valley to meet up with Erik from Revelstoke. Once both parties arrived we checked out what areas were open, had a quick chat about our objectives for the day &amp;nbsp;and headed off to a northerly facing area. We were looking for pillows for future shoots and we were not disappointed.









The diving board feature is an easy 8m.&amp;nbsp;






















gnarnia








While the zones were nothing short of what we were looking for ( expect the photo above , that&amp;#39;s just silly ) conditions were certainly not primed to jump on the rodeo train and start pillow bashing. &amp;nbsp;We worked our way further up the ridge to a second bench that had some features we could manage with our current ski conditions.&amp;nbsp;









Most of what we skied looked like this. Not to bad













Even the views didn&amp;#39;t bore us. bonus!&amp;nbsp;













Vince got rad













Kyle with some turkey vulture steeze













Kyle links some pow turns to end the day.








The day could not have gone any better. What was planned to be a scouting missio for future film days once the snow returns to us had turned into a fun day in the mountains with great skiing and fun features. Rogers pass has been a favorite for some time and given the vastness of the park we have only begun to scratch the surface of this places potential. If only it would snow sooner rather than later.&amp;nbsp;

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            <title><![CDATA[Soap Box-Mt Green N Couloir]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Got out just under a week ago and was able to take advantage of the beautiful, albiet staying a while past its welcome high pressure we&amp;#39;ve been getting here in the interior. Figuring N facing slopes that have not been to badly sun affected would be our best for the best skiing I started looking over all the google earth rogers pass imagry. Mt Green came to mind but in the last storm cycle, the classic run off the summit had slid all the way down to glacial ice! I noticed just to the side of it though was a few possible lines and decided to go and check them out in the morning via binoculars and make a call then.
The Line.

Driving up in the morning the line appeared good, though the obvious couloir to the west/lookers right of the blue line ended in a 150foot waterfall.
We turned around and headed to the loop brook parking lot and quickly put on skins and began marching up the drainage. After about an hour and a half the Mt Green/Bonney col came into view.


The col was much more intimidating then we had anticipated. We also ran into the Provo bro&amp;#39;s and friends who were also planning on going for the summit of Mt Green! Super cool dudes and it made the day even better having great people to pass the time with! We decided to soldier up to the col and take a closer look. We wound up climbing the lookers left side of the col which looked easy but was actually fairly difficult due to there being lots of sections of only facets on slab rock.
We made it though and then after a nice relaxing break at the col we bootpacked the last 200meteres up the windblasted ridge to the summit.
Where we got to stare at some future lines.

A Pretty Glacier

And more distant beauty glaciated and other summits!

We then skied down some nice corn snow on the west ridge for about 200m to the top of our line.
Dropping in

Getting Small


Looking back up at the line


Then we slogged it back to the parking lot. All in all a 14km day as a crow flies, more if you count switchbacks i guess. and about 1700m gained and skied. Hope this is a decent first post for you guys!
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            <pubDate>2014-02-03 00:51:41</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anyone been up the last few days?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[going up in the morning ( monday) to ski some pillow fields. Wondering if anyone has been out the last week , specifically in the loop brook area? &amp;nbsp;Any beta aprec]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-02-02 15:59:08</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Skiing at the pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Went for a ski up at the pass. Turned out to be a longer day than anticipated. The river that is usually frozen, allowing you to pass under the bridge so we had to go over,and it made the ski out hellish because you couldn&amp;#39;t traverse the river but had to go up in the trees which was basically an ice fest. The skiing was ok. Facets at the summit for about 500 m. Then the quality really started to deteriorate. Super crusty and grabby at the bottom. But bluebird skies which was nice!]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-01-21 13:29:58</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plenty of snow at Rogers pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Was skiing at Rogers pass yesterday. They got a fairly good dump and it is still snowing. Hopefully this will cover up all the tracks, as it has been pretty skiied out almost everywhere, although it sounds like the entire bow valley is heading there this weekend! ]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-01-11 14:27:27</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Years at the PASS   \&quot;SOAP BOX COMP\&quot;]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[

New Years tradition in our circle is brought in the only way we know it should be brought in. Tradition has formed where we either book a hut or a lodge and bring in the new years skinning. This year we planned to spend it the Rogers Pass area hoping it would deliver the early seasons goods.
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This years snow conditions (or lack there of) had provide little early season turns and we spent most of our time at the Nordic center for our days outside in the early season. Pre-New Years reports of snow pack in the Rockies remained quite meager however having a short drive from the Calgary to our lodging West of Golden we want to get some turns. Knowing the areas under the Crowfoot Glacier gets more snow from the effect of blowing snow off the glacier into the trees we set out to the Crowfoot Glades with our fingers crossed. Once we got to the Parking lot we where greeted by the Majestic Rocky Moutnains along icefield that reminded us why ski conditions don&amp;rsquo;t even matter and just being out here with the mountains covered in a blanket of white is Epic!.
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As we started the skin in and up we where stoked on a supportive snowpack and some good powder in the trees. I usually avoid this area as I prefer longer runs to yo yo laps and enjoy the areas with fewer people. But as result of the driving ahead and not sure what the snowpack was going to be we figured Something that was a short approach was a better call for the day and I&amp;rsquo;m glad we did as the Crowfoot Glades delivered the goods. We where one of three small groups in the area that day and whatever older tracks where layed had been blown. So we ran the Trees into the gully for a couple runs getting some short steep pitches into the gully. Lukas getting some air of a little drop here.
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Feeling confident in the snow pack we decided to go take a look at the steeplines point North East and they did not disappoint.
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From there we left for the Hillside Lodge &amp;amp; Chalets about 10 mins West of Golden which was a perfect base camp.&amp;nbsp;
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We&amp;#39;ll after a slow start to the season Rogers Pass delivered the goods! everything had been closed for Avy Control the till the day we started skiing the pass. As a result we where the only group skiing and setting a track in the Cheops Glades for the first two days! And that was followed by 35 cms in 24 hrs and with most areas closed we headed to McGill Shoulder to avoid what was sure to be a busy Grizzly Shoulder and practice slopes and where once again greated by the goods. I&amp;#39;ll the the pictures do the talking.&amp;nbsp;

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What a week to get the stoke on for a year that with plans for a long weekend at Peyto and April Ski Mountaineering in Alaska the Stoke is HIGH!
For the full album visit http://www.facebook/roadtonowh.....hotography
Or for High Quality Pics of my favourites http://www.roadtonowherephotog.....mugmug.com
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            <pubDate>2014-01-10 01:14:37</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Man Dies at Rogers Pass in the Asulkan Valley on Youngs Peak]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It looks like Joshua Matthews Bernot, 30 has died after falling off a 16-metre cliff in Glacier National Park on Monday. More specifically he was at Rogers Pass skiing in the Asulkan Valley. The incident occurred at approximately 12:30 on the summit of Youngs Peak on the second day of a two-day backcountry skiing trip.&amp;nbsp;
Bernot&amp;#39;s friend, and other nearby skiers, summoned help as quickly as possible, but despite a rapid response from Parks Canada staff and first responders, Bernot was pronounced dead at the scene, the B.C. Coroners Service said.

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            <pubDate>2013-04-24 10:17:37</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Current conditions in Rogers Pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is still some powder skiing to be found in the Pass on the northerly facing aspects but there has been an increadibly warm period over last 10 days, so be careful!
Starting tomorrow potential rain events could further make things dangerous (but might make skiing better higher up) - http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/cit.....ric_e.html
And this is the good and bad I saw in the Pass this weekend. Slides can/do rip to the ground!

This one, at the bottom of Grizzly avy path, likely went down around noon on Monday. It moved trees in up-right position.

But there was still good snow if you searched enough. ]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-04-02 15:47:44</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Avalanche fatality in Glacier National Park - Roger Pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the weekend on Sunday March 24th a 38 year old Revelstoke man identified as Jason Chad Westbury was killed in an avalanche. It occurred on Mount Sifton just below the col at approximately 2:00 pm. The victim was buried but his two companions were able to dig him out and start CPR then one person went for help. When Parks Canada arrives via helicopter it was too late and Westbury had died.

The two other skiers were not hurt in the incident and were flown from the area by helicopter. This is the second avalanche death in B.C. in the past two days as a snowmobiler was killed in a slide west of Kimberley the day before.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre had issued a warning for the interior of B.C. over the weekend. Given the inviting sunny weather everyone in the backcountry should use extra caution.
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            <pubDate>2013-03-26 20:26:32</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Puff Daddy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Beauty day in Rogers Pass March 23, 2013. Definitely felt like spring. Hwy was dry pavement all the way up to the Centre. Did a quick lap on Puff Daddy. Some solar effect but all in all fantastic turns and a great day out.
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            <pubDate>2013-03-24 19:33:24</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Accomodation near Roger Pass]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We are now the closest accomodation to Roger Pass...!!
First Class Mountain Accommodation in Golden, BC!Suite Booking Inquiries Welcome!
Nested between the Rockies and the Purcell Mountains &amp;ldquo;il nido country inn&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; (&amp;ldquo;The Nest&amp;rdquo;)&amp;nbsp; offers the solitude that brings peace and comfort back to your life. This is a place where you can forget &amp;hellip;.and just relax!!
Log Luxury!
Stay in a truly marvelous log home in the wilderness of Canada and enjoy nature at its best. Make it your home for all the adventures the surrounding mountains have to offer.
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            <pubDate>2013-03-21 08:13:32</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COMP - Feeling pretty sick]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[ This winter I decided to do something different, something unexpected . . . I got a job.
 For the first winter in my entire life I committed to working. And not a ski industry job, a full time office job in Calgary. I&amp;#39;ve had some FOMO be sure, but I really shouldn&amp;#39;t complain and here&amp;#39;s one reason why.
 My friends and I have been going to Rogers Pass in February for 5 years and this year was no exception. I couldn&amp;#39;t get the time off work to go on the annual trip to Asulkan and that was just not acceptable. So I did what any pow craving (former?) dirtbag would do. I got off work at 5, gave a ride to rad girl to Golden and made it to Rogers Pass at 10pm. My friends were already up there, bragging about skiing Forever Young. I got my gear together and by 10:30 was on the trail. The moon was bring enough that I didn&amp;#39;t need a headlamp and it was just me, my thoughts and the moon for a few hours. I arrived at 1am to a quiet hut, my friend George welcomed me in the door. After a beer it was off to bed, the storm was rolling in tonight.&amp;nbsp;
 The next morning I woke up and made the calll. &quot;Hi ___. I came down with something last night and don&amp;#39;t think I&amp;#39;ll make it into work today, feeling pretty sick.&quot;&amp;nbsp;
FREEdom! I felt pretty SICK all weekend actually. It snowed and blowed Friday, snowed more Saturday and Sunday, under the weather indeed.

Cough Cough, having a hard time breathing.

Hard to see and focus, just blurry and white.

the only cure is more BACON!!
The skiing was great, keeping things in the trees and out of harm&amp;#39;s way. Somehow the moon came out, the winds died down and we celebrated our friends birthday with fireworks and a moonlit pow run





Pretty amazing way to spend the weekend. And just when I thought it might be over and time to head back to Calgary I caught another group of friends and did a victory lap up Glacier Crest.



Thats what I&amp;#39;d call a sick weekend. Bring on the next one, I think this cold is coming back.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-02-28 23:03:09</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COMP - If spandex means more powder I am in]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Let me tell you something, wearing a spandex skimo slash rando racing suite is a serious commitment!
It&amp;#39;s not the occasional heckling that you have to deal with, or having to make a choice on which side you want to swing your balls for next couple of hours (girls are spared this), but it&amp;#39;s the commitment to ski even if you don&amp;#39;t want to! Usually powder&amp;hellip; 
As a backcountry skier slash skimo racer, I go to places that seemed too far before and ski more powder than I thought was ever possible.
I have a blurry line between training and adventure. In fact, it&amp;#39;s blurry to the point that on some days I am staring down lines that ask for deep self-reflections. Those make me question my morning gear choices. But hell, it&amp;#39;s time to ski, not trying to justify a ridiculous one piece suite.
In case you still question my fashion moods and moral motives then know that getting your body spandex-ready is an endless adventure:






Spandex racing isn&amp;#39;t the goal but the excuse 
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            <pubDate>2013-02-27 22:53:52</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Comp - Freedom!!!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This one&amp;#39;s all yours, enjoy! My partners in crime smile at me in anticipation of what we are about to experience. I look at the jealousy in their eyes and smile back.

This must be a crime. This can&amp;#39;t be legal. My helmet holds my head on my shoulders, as it threatens to float into the bluebird sky. The wind has disappeared, the sun is shining and the couloir that called us out just moments ago, is now sitting below us taunting us to take the ride.

Beep, beep, beep&amp;hellip; I countdown an imaginary race gate in my head as I prepare to launch. &amp;nbsp;Sssshhhh&amp;hellip; The snow sounds like it is telling my pounding heart to quiet down, as I step into my first turn. My spine tingles, this is awesome.

I manage to link up three more turns before the tailgating sluff forces me into the slow lane. There&amp;#39;s no rush, I want this to last and need to experience it on my feet. Does anyone else giggle internally like a prepubescent schoolgirl while doing this, I wondered? I began picturing the superhuman freeriders that were models for the face of courage and laughed as their manly bearded faces emanated high-pitched giggles. Focus&amp;hellip; I bring my thoughts earthward as the couloir opens up to a giant fan. The short Swiss butt wiggles get left behind as I step into a hard sweeping g-turn. The sun explodes on the open terrain.

A small pinwheel sitting on top of the snow morphs into a racing gate and I aim for it. Rounding the gate, my edges suddenly lose faith in their captain and threaten to abandon ship if I don&amp;#39;t ease up.

The sluff still hasn&amp;#39;t crossed the finish line. The race isn&amp;#39;t over. I open it up. My jacket is shaking uncontrollably. I must have passed its comfort zone. The air rams down my throat like a super charger redlining my lungs. This is what it&amp;#39;s all about. This is freedom!

Our quest for freedom has landed us at Fairy Meadows cabin, high in the Selkirk Mountains.

I&amp;#39;m joined by a couple of friends, one of whom I spent most of my college days with, abandoning class to get more turns. It&amp;#39;s great to catch up and refresh some forgotten adventures.

Chris throws us a beer from our God made snow fridge. We can&amp;#39;t stop grinning. I know they&amp;#39;re giggling internally too but don&amp;#39;t call them on it. What a day! We just spent the last 7 hours floating 7,000 feet down both Houdini couloirs, followed by the aesthetic Gog Magog that launches you next to the Friendship Col and spits you out onto the Shoestring Glacier.

It didn&amp;rsquo;t end there either, with more great turns all the way to the back door of the hut and one victory lap on the backyard hill. This is the life!

As an outsider to the public&amp;rsquo;s obsession with celebrities and sports with men in tights, I often get asked, &quot;Why?&quot; I don&amp;#39;t know how to answer this question.

James was partly responsible for this obsession. In our second year of college, he introduced me to backcountry&amp;rsquo;s gateway drug, a season pass at the local ski hill. Our school year suddenly consisted of skiing, skiing, test, skiing, skiing, project&amp;hellip; interspersed with lapses in memory and hooliganism.

Our daily routine now involved a three-step process. We&amp;#39;d wake up to the snow phone guy, who had the youth like energy that only drugs or skiing could provide (he definitely giggled like a school girl, probably outwardly too). Next, we&amp;#39;d call around letting everyone know what the magic fresh level was for the day and to see if anyone had any gas money. Third, we&amp;#39;d calculate the only math formula that really mattered: (Number of classes missed + care factor) &amp;ndash; (classes remaining + current grade) &amp;divide;&amp;nbsp;(snow and stoke level). The answer was almost always yes.

 
What is it that made this pursuit of fresh so intense? Snorting just a little bit of powder at the local hill suddenly had us searching, sacrificing and scraping by, just to get our skis on another score. Here we are, thirteen years later, and that drive is still just as real now as it was back In College. We&amp;rsquo;re powder junkies.

I always thought it would disappear and we&amp;#39;d settle into pensions, stocks, bonds and boredom. Instead, our drive strengthened and now we&amp;#39;re often skiing matched squiggles next to the grim reaper, who&amp;#39;s grinning from ear socket to ear socket, waiting for us to push it too far. Did we miss a chromosome in our DNA chain? What is wrong with us?

 
I snap back to reality and gaze around at a sea of glaciers covered in snow, pierced with majestic rock peaks.

Tomorrow we have our eyes on the Outpost Peak Couloir that juts skyward and clearly taunts us from the dining room table. Who will have the last laugh, I wonder. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;


  
Life is simple out here.

We have a full week to travel uninhibited in this magnificent cathedral, free from the stresses of life.

For the moment, we&amp;#39;ve pensioned off our day-to-day troubles.

Our biggest concern is remembering to stock the fire in the sauna before dinner.

Laughing and living in a world that many never get to visit.

We&amp;#39;ll see things that most will never see. &amp;nbsp;

Be pushed to limits that most didn&amp;#39;t know existed

and experience bonds that only mountain adventures can form.

These are the only pensions, stocks and bonds that are on our minds.

The question &amp;ldquo;Why?&amp;rdquo; is abruptly answered in the panorama in front of us. It appears like a clan of Braveheart warriors being forced into a life they&amp;#39;re unwilling to live and screams&amp;hellip; FREEDOM!!!


No, what is wrong with us isn&amp;#39;t the question. I sit down in my butt molded God-made powder seat and smile.

What is wrong with them?]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-02-09 22:45:09</pubDate>
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