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[ericthered40]

Originally posted by chicken

Only Ski that I do comes in yoghurt pots. Tried snowboarding earlier this year for the first time and came back with half the braincells I left with - and it's not like there were that many to begin with!

Come out with us then, we haven't got a brain sell between us.

[Lily]

Yeah I have been in some pretty cold places, Norway was damn cold and pretty dark as well...lol although New England (Maine/Vermont) in January was pretty fresh as well

Going back to Whistler so we can go heliboarding as bad weather meant we could not go this year. Thinking about going to Aalska to do something like this

http://www.alaskabackcountry.com/

[Ian Harris]

Originally posted by ericthered40

Rocky mountain champaign powder cheap flights from Stansted

Try mountain pass. Went new year, year before last but cold
try - 36 and skiing in - 26 feeling like a warm day.
Still powder to swim in everywear.

A place were you need top class clothing.

Been in March to good time.

Sunshine=Goats eye=Nirvana


http://www.sunshinevillage.com/

Been to Sunshine a couple of times in January... temp in the -40's first thing in the morning, but truly incredible snow. On one occasion, the Gondola up to the village froze, they coaxed all the cabins with skiers in up to the top, then closed it for the morning. There were about 100 of us in the whole resort for 4 hours

Strange thing is, they reckoned it was the electronics that fail in th extreme cold, not the mechanical stuff...weird

[pibbow]

Hi Lads We go three or four times a year. Know a great hotel in central val d'sere it's the Le Kern 2 star family hotel dose B&B it's fab. Speak to Pascale she's the manager or Isabelle the owner. If you are prepared to go further a field try Kicking Horse www.kickinghorseresort.com best in Canada if you ask me. We spent just one day on a trip from lake louise and ended it by putting a deposit down on a condo. It is Just STEEP and DEEP. Powder is so good.

Peter

[Edited on 23-10-2005 by pibbow]

[Edited on 23-10-2005 by pibbow]

[ericthered40]

We went on a skidoo adventure opposite kicking horse with Two Heli logging Fire jumpers as guides.
They let us ride round a small track with some bends and jumps for fifteen minutes to suss us out.
We were then rigged up with beacons and a shovel then strait up the side of a mountain on a six-foot wide track, to a mine at the top of the biggest powder bowl I have ever seen. We had to stop to cut through a couple of avalanches. We got to the mine hut, dug the snow away from the door to get in and lit up an oil drum fire for lunch later. One guy then said he would go out and dynamite the bowl for safety. Out side the hut we stood on the side of a shear drop in to the bowl and he just rode off the edge, and dropped down in to the abyss, craziest thing I have EVER seen anyone ever do, nothing will ever match the balls on that bloke. Think base jump on a skidoo no parachute and then some. No one spoke we just froze with fear praying they didn’t expect us to follow him. Thank god we took the easy way in. They taught us lots of tricks the best being the stand on the inside of the skidoo in a tight turn flat out in the powder at the highest point you dear to clime the side of the bowl. We were going up maybe two hundred feet. The fire jumper on his tuned ski was Ant size on the wall towering above, mad man.
My favourite, the jumping off ramps leaping off the ski in to powder that no mater how far you had flown, held no fear of the landing.
The day was finished off with a race back down the track we came up on. Flat out crossed up on the power out of every hairpin-banked turn. Backcountry in Canada is real adventure. Frontier style.

[JPM]

Done sunshine a couple of years ago, dropped into delerium dive a few times on the last day, lump in your throat stuff, we sat and weighed it up for a while when to Canadian boarders appeared jumped straight in off the most vertical drop there was there, board tipped downwards for 30-40 feet before hitting snow! Damn impressive stuff, flipping cold up there though.

As Lily said we did Whistler last year, great apart from the rain and Tahoe the year before, would do any of these again..... in fact we are, Whistler March 06

[loverobot]

In europe Tignes/Val d'isere is hard to beat - very high, glacier if poor snow and loads of off piste - love it - back there for new year this time

Just deciding at the moment where to go in feb...

[les996]

must admit I do love snowboarding

my favourite is tahoe, squaw valley

les