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Lee Lau

Revelstoke, BC, Report: An Early February Cruise

All pictures by Lee Lau or Sharon Bader It’s no secret that this has been a poor winter in BC. El Nino has hit us hard. Usually even if coastal BC gets too warm, the BC Interior stays cold enough that snow quality stays high. This season isn’t the case. Warm air hit pretty much the entire province. However, of […]

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Lee Lau | February 3, 2024
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Revelstoke Mountain Resort, BC, Report – Terrain, Terrain, Terrain

It’s no secret that B.C. hasn’t had the best luck with snow this year. Pickings have been slim, with snow levels below average throughout the province. However, you can’t take away terrain, and with that in mind,  one of Revelstoke Mountain Resort’s greatest assets is the terrain. Fortunately, we got to RMR as the past week refreshed the snowpack. Forty-four cms fell […]

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Lee Lau | February 9, 2023
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Revelstoke Mountain Resort, BC, Report: Impressive Lines and Superb Views

Report from week of January 24th, 2022 It’s been some time since we’ve visited Revelstoke. It’s our interior BC home-away-from-home and a place to escape from Whistler when inevitable snow dry spells hit. With COVID, then highway failures, it’s been over two years since we’ve visited for winter. Floods washed away The Coquihalla in the fall of 2021 and (amazingly quickly) […]

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Lee Lau | January 28, 2022
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Hilda Hut in the Valkyr Range: 7 Days of Guided, Catered Ski-Touring in British Columbia

Introduction There are always more places to visit, things to see, and cool lodges from which to ski tour. Someone once told Sharon and me that we had been to more ski touring lodges than anyone else we knew but we had never been to Hilda Hut. Related: SnowBrains Powder Highway 2022 Report: Day #5 Epic Revelstoke, BC Backcountry Powder […]

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Lee Lau | January 25, 2022
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Kootenay, BC, Powder Roadtrip Report – 3 Powder Filled Days With Big Red Cats

Continuing with the Powder Highway theme we wanted to experience mechanized skiing Rossland-style. Sometime over the summer, I had talked to Big Red Cats about getting a group together. One group became two groups and so we somehow ended booking two private cats dividing the 24 skiers (12 per cat) into one group of Advanced/Expert and another group, Intermediate. Any ski trip is always […]

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Lee Lau | January 21, 2022
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Kootenay, BC, Powder Roadtrip Report; Deep Snow at RED Resort and Whitewater

British Columbia has started strong this winter, and our home base of Whistler was no exception. Even Vancouver had a pile of snow, including the first dump of snow in the city for over a decade! But there’s always time for road trips. Flooding in BC had cleaned out a lot of highway infrastructure so it was with some sense […]

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Lee Lau | January 20, 2022
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Kicking Horse, BC Lift-Served Backcountry | A Golden Road Trip, Part 2

Brought to you by Kicking Horse Mountain Resort Kicking Horse Mountain Resort’s inbounds terrain is the tip of the iceberg. Generally speaking, this is trite of any ski hill; quite obviously what can be accessed from lifts will almost always be a bigger area than what is lift-serviced but the contrast for KHMR is stark. There are 85 named inbounds alpine […]

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Lee Lau | February 28, 2020
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Golden and Kicking Horse, BC – A Golden Road Trip Part 1

Brought to you by Kicking Horse Mountain Resort – Report from week of 10th February 2020 Golden! It’s been overlooked by some as just another truck stop on the Trans Canada Highway, as a placename in the made-up Kootenay Rockies Powder Highway, and derisively as East Revelstoke. However, good things can’t be kept hidden forever. Stunning scenery and mountains are part […]

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Lee Lau | February 21, 2020
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Gear Review: Fritschi Xenic Alpine Touring Binding

Introduction New for the 2019-20 ski season is the Fritschi Xenic. The Xenic builds on Fritschi’s pre-existing Vipec EVO and Tecton binding using many of the same concepts and materials. This means that the Xenic can be truly thought of not as a scary-new product but one which has evolved by building on Fritschi’s past success and experience. Xenic is an alpine touring […]

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Lee Lau | February 8, 2020
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Duffey Lake, BC Backcountry Report: Cayoosh Passpowgasm

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Lee Lau | January 15, 2020
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Revelstoke, BC Report: Powgasboard; The Beatings Continue, Morale Improves

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Lee Lau | January 11, 2020
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Variable Thin Russian Roulette Whistler, BC Backcountry Snowpack

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Lee Lau | January 3, 2020
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Revelstoke BC, Report: Snowmageddon – The Aftermath and Continuation

Report from Friday 20th December 2019 Well did we tell you about the SNOWmageddon or did we tell you?   122cms of new snow fell this week in Revelstoke in total.  Adding to the POW destruction potential another 20cms fell overnight with a further 4cms falling throughout the day.   Roads in and out of town were paralyzed with avalanche control opening […]

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Lee Lau | December 23, 2019
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Revelstoke, BC On a Budget; Powder For the People!

Revelstoke! RMR doesn’t need to be described much; every self-respecting ski bum knows it’s a got a ton of vertical, isn’t overly crowded and is smack-dab in British Columbia’s Powder Highway. Right now RMR is also going off with a pile of snow coming in weekly and a healthy snow base hitting 121cms already at mid-mountain at 1,950m as of Dec 12, 2019. […]

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Lee Lau | December 20, 2019
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Revelstoke Mountain Resort, BC Lift-Served Backcountry – Steeps and Deeps

Revelstoke Mountain Resort, BC is known for big elevation! Fall-line vert, groomers, pow stashes, inbound steeps. Similar to other Western Canadian resorts it’s also known for an open boundary approach. With these open boundaries comes access to fairly serious backcountry that’s decidedly above average in quality and quantity. Related: Revelstoke, BC Report: The Biggest Vertical, Plenty of Powder, & Heart-Racing Groomers Of […]

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Lee Lau | December 20, 2019
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Revelstoke, BC Storm Cycle – POWpocalypse and More Snow Incoming

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Lee Lau | December 19, 2019
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Rogers Pass, BC 2019 Winter Permit, Update and a New Map!

Revelstoke! Once thought of as a stop on Canada’s east-west TransCanada Highway, its name has become synonymous with deep snowpacks and skiing. Located just an hour east of “Revy” is Rogers Pass — aka backcountry skiing heaven. Related: The Importance of Understanding the Winter Permit System on Rogers Pass, BC This article provides you with some basic information about the […]

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Lee Lau | December 13, 2019
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