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britishcolumbiabackcountryskiing.com
SKI & BOARD
Tree Well & Deep Snow Accident Prevention The most important prevention step is to remain on groomed runs, resisting the urge to ski or snowboard through the trees during deep powder conditions, no matter how inviting the untracked powder looks. If you choose to ski or snowboard in the ungroomed, deep snow areas with trees, remember: #1) A Partner: It is critical to ski or ride with a partner who remains in visual contact at all times.
In many cases, some of the deaths which have occurred due to tree well incidents may have been avoided had: a) the person been with a partner
b) the partner saw the person fall and
c) the partner was close enough to assist digging the victim out in a timely manner. It does NO GOOD for your safety if you are under the snow and your partner is waiting for you at the bottom of the lift. If you have any question about what a “timely manner” is to assist someone in a tree well, hold your breath now as you are reading this and the amount of time until you need air is approximately how much time your partner has to help get you out of danger. Other factors such as creating an air pocket or the nature of how you fall into the well may extend this critical timeframe. |
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Read more: From our Friends at Stevens Pass.com
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Winter is here and we are getting all fired up throughout North America for the day when we can pack up the car, grab a six pack of beer, and head to our favorite spots. We are so pumped up here at Ski the Backcountry Online. If this is your first visit to our sites, we appreciate it. The online pub covering Idaho, Colorado, Montana, and British Columbia, started this summer and we are now into our fourth issue. Things are looking good, but we could always use the help with the content. If you have an article, story, or adventure you would like to have published please let us know. You provide the content, we provide the platform. Visit our online store, visit the locals only section, visit the video section, and be interactive with the site. Become a member and upload your pics or videos!! Have a great month of November and see you in the mountains! |
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A Message From Winter Wildlands Alliance |
Action Alert - Last Chance for Yellowstone
Dear Winter Wildlands Alliance Supporters,
Okay, maybe "last chance" is stretching it: when it comes to protecting the natural sights and sounds of winter in our nation's first national park I've learned never to assume finality, but this week is your last chance to support progress toward that goal.
As you know from our action alert last month, the Obama Administration has reopened public comment on a proposed interim rule to reduce the number of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park by more than half for the next two years while the National Park Service finalizes a long-term plan for winter use in Yellowstone. The interim rule is a step in the right direction, but it should go farther.
Deadline for comments is this Tuesday, September 8.
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Colby and The Left Central |
Left Central Mountains
I’d rather be serenading you with rainbows and unicorns, but I can’t blow smoke like that. It’s September, it rained all of August, and all anyone wants is winter. By anyone, I mean me. I’m ready for winter. So ready in fact, I’ve vowed to shut down mentally and physically until the healing frozen water descends from the sky. I am stuck here like a dope sick fiend with cold sweats—listening to Jim Reeves sing about how he’d rather have Jesus, well Jim, take him I want winter.
My life has become a 3-dimensional Rorschach test. Everything I see looks like a powder run. It’s nothing new, I’ve been a ski bum my whole life. Sometimes I can just kick back and enjoy the fall and wait until November before getting anxious. This year, well, snow is all I can think about—and hopes that I will be able to ski what I want to.
If I were to give you a visual it would be that I am falling from the plane I jumped out of in August. A few weeks ago I wondered if I had indeed put a parachute on. There’s something on my back, a monkey, a parachute maybe, either way there’s a cord to pull and I am falling. Back to the way it was—no cash, no pass, no sled, shitty backcountry set up, no girlfriend… at least I have a dog on loan. It just needs to snow so I can pull that chord and see if, in fact, there is a functioning parachute on my back.
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Subject: Andrew Skurka: National Geographic Adnventure’s Adventurer of the Year
National Geographic Adnventure’s Adventurer of the Year
Andrew Skurka
DATE: September 10, 2009
PLACE: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jackson Wyoming
TIME: 7:00 PM
COST: $5 includes a raffle ticket for great outdoor gear
SPONSOR: Skinny Skis of Jackson Hole
BENEFIT FOR: Wyoming Wilderness Association and Winter Wildlands Alliance
Contact Info:
Nancy Shea, Wyoming Wilderness Association, 690-1730 or
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Forrest McCarthy, Winter Wildlands Alliance, 690-6833 or
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THE EVENT:
Andrew Skurka, 28, is an accomplished professional backpacker. He is most well-known for his two monumental, long distance backpacking firsts: the 6,875 mile Great Western Loop and his 7,778 mile Sea to Sea Route.
In November 2007 Skurka completed the Great Western Loop, a superb 6,875-mile journey that links together 5 long-distance hiking trails, 12 National Parks, and over 75 wilderness areas, which he blazed in 208 days, an average of 33 miles per day. And in July 2005 he completed the Sea-to-Sea Route, a transcontinental network of |
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