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 […] Trip Report Lee Lau | January 21, 2022 0 Comments
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 […] Conditions Report Lee Lau | January 20, 2022 0 Comments
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 […] Trip Report Lee Lau | February 28, 2020 0 Comments
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 […] Trip Report Lee Lau | February 21, 2020 0 Comments
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 […] Gear Review Lee Lau | February 8, 2020 2 Comments
Duffey Lake, BC Backcountry Report: Cayoosh Passpowgasm Lee Lau | January 15, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Revelstoke, BC Report: Powgasboard; The Beatings Continue, Morale Improves Lee Lau | January 11, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Variable Thin Russian Roulette Whistler, BC Backcountry Snowpack Lee Lau | January 3, 2020 Likes Tweets 2 Comments
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