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British Columbia Backcountry Report: 1,000-Vertical-Feet of Pillows, Fear, & Joy

Report from January 13, 2025 On Monday Dwanis and I battled out into the British Columbia backcountry. Things started flat and mellow, then quickly escalated into a full-blow BC bushwhack switchback into the steeps… Pillows and steeps. Pillows and steeps and logs. Pillows and steeps and logs and trees. It was rough going. 4 hours later, we poked out into […]

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Miles Clark | January 16, 2025
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British Columbia, Canada Hut Trip Report – Day 4: High Avalanche Danger = Deep Snow = Crazy Fun Mini-Pillows

Report from December 26, 2022 High avalanche danger + deep snow yesterday = big fun in the mini-pillow zone on day #4 of our BC hut trip. High avy danger kept us confined to safer, non-connected zones yesterday and that was just fine by us. We gang-mobbed these fun little pillows and had more than just a few laughs out […]

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Miles Clark | December 27, 2022
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Revelstoke, BC Conditions Report: 2019 Powder Skiing and Pillow Galore

Pillow Popping

Towering over a string of white mushrooms, Jack was visualizing the possible scenarios. Would the pillow launch him into a precarious boulder hole or an uncontrollable tomahawk over the overhanging cliff band? In a typical Jack fashion, he pushed the thought aside and yelled with a raspy tone: “Watch me shred this line boys”. His skis sliced through the monstrous pillows […]

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Olivier Denis-Larocque | January 4, 2019
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B.C. Pillow Skiing Edit from Record Snow Year 2018

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Miles Clark | May 18, 2018
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VIDEO: Deep BC Pillow Madness…

Last Sunday, we returned to a special “Double Secret Location” in BC and skied some pillows. We were the only ones in the zone that day and it had snowed about a meter the previous 2 days. Trail breaking was deep, intense, and slow. The snow was perfect.  Simply perfect. We all skied pillow line after pillow line until we […]

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Miles Clark | February 8, 2018
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VIDEO: Travis Rice Pillow Poppin’ In The BC Backcountry

This video is a thing of beauty. A short segment of Travis Rice pillow poppin’ in the British Columbia, Canada backcountry. All of this and more can be seen in his new movie Depth Perception.

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Chris Wallner | December 18, 2017
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VIDEO: Scary Pillow Line | Pillow Fractures & Tumbles Down The Mountain

This video shows a pillow in B.C. that stayed together and tumbled down the mountain when it was triggered by a skier. The camera man and the skier were on a heli skiing trip in Whistler, when this scary incident occurred. Thankfully, the skier was able to walk away from this unharmed. The manner in which this occurred and how […]

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Chris Wallner | March 16, 2017
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Spines & Pillows | Goryu, Japan

Goryu sidecountry terrrain in Hakuba, Japan.  Amazing pillows and spines everywhere here.  High avalanche hazard keeps people out most of the time.

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