A veteran SAR volunteer's experiences in British Columbia
I’d like to talk about one or two things I’ve noticed that can help shed light on why 200 people would go out into such obviously dangerous conditions, and expose themselves to what would seem to be obvious risk. These …
Today over 200 people were on scene at an “unorganized event” known as the “Big Iron Shootout” near Revelstoke, there was an avalanche and several people were killed, many were injured and there are possibly some missing. In the past …
I’m working on an article on the mechanisms by which snowshoers near Vancouver tend to get in trouble (injury and death). The summary is this: snowshoers tend to have slip-and-fall injuries on hard snow during periods of sunny weather either …
Looks like the 80’s, but it’s the 90’s; telemark skiing. Don’t emulate this photo for your own tele technique; I’m completely self taught and have a style that could be called unique if you’re feeling generous. For the geeks among …
I’m a Telemark skier. I started in university because the gear was cheap, and I was poor. Also, being poor, I did not have enough money for a ski pass, so I learned to ski in the backcountry. For me it …
Hoping that a recent road report on Bivouac.com was corrrect (that you could drive to the Roe Creek turoff), Myself, Tom and the two dogs tried to get up Cloudburst via Chance Creek on Friday. This is my second attempt …
I was up Mount Seymour on Monday (Feb 02) evening. Near the end of the snowfall, it rained all the way to the top of the mountain, and quite a significant amount. When I was skiing up i observed a 1/4″ …