Traversée du Canada et ROGER!

Here we are... after a false start due to New Year's Eve Party, we leaved towards west. Crossing Ontario was long and boring in the past year, but fortunately we had Lucile (the hawaiian girl) to keep us entertained.


Then there were the Prairies...


And finally we arrived in Banff, 48 hours later (including a 8 hours night of sleep)... drinking a few victory beers.


Talking with a friend from Canmore, we decided to go straight to Roger's Pass and start hiking to get some good skiing: about 2-3 meter snowpack, steep line of 1000m vertical meters, fresh snow everyday and a bunch of pillows to jump!


Jean-Francois got used to jumping... and we gave him 9.8/10 for the landing!


In the next days we hike more... seeing some gorgious landscape and skiing more good stuff (Grizzly Shoulder, Avalanche Crest, Mount Shifton, Cheops Glade and Mount McGill)!


We continue to live in our car... sleeping next to it, drying our stuff in it and eating in it!!!


So that was the first week of the trip and we are satisfy with our snow chase so far. We will keep on the hard work... stay tuned for more!

This year ski trip will feature...

Ok... so here we are. Snow is falling all around North America, ski movies are released, new skis hit the store, my quads are anxious to get sore from the telemark turn, the school is almost over... everything converge for this year ski trip! The goal is simple: ski as much powder as we can, spend as little money as we can and have a good time!


So here is the deal (which will probably change!): Evans and I will be leaving for British Columbia on January 1st. We should start by skiing in the backcountry around Whistler for a few weeks. Then, once the snow in inner BC become more stable we will go back there to ski in the Kootenay region, Roger Pass and the Columbia mountains. Depending on the conditions after that we should head up in northern BC, and see what backcountry skiing there looks like!

Stay tuned, it will be an amazing winter!

A little bit about our previous trips!

Our ski trips usually involve a long road trip across Canada toward the west...


Drinking a lot of coffee along the way... cause that part of the trip is fun, but useless!


Eating along the way...


But getting no sleep until we can see the moonlight reflected by the snowy peak...


Then the real fun begin... once we found the proper snow & terrain we start hiking up...


Always higher...


And higher...


Until we found a white and untouched little piece of paradise...


Where the snow is lighter than feather... where the snow fall so fast that if you stop moving it will cover you...


Or get into your sandwich...


Then we start skiing...


We go back up and ski down until exhaustion, which never really happens before it get dark! We then eat dinner... usually spaghetti, a lot of it!


And after a good night of sleep we start again! Leaving early morning...


Hiking high and far for the perfect line...


Skiing again (!!) on the way down...


Jumping ...


And sometime falling!


Of course, we sometime get news from the outside world...


Sometime resorting to "emergency" food...


And sometime changing location to follow the snow...


And the season goes on like that... hiking up, skiing everyday, eating spaghetti, searching for perfect powder. Then comes the spring... powder is harder to find but skiing is still enjoyable!



Until we open a last beer and head back home...


The SnowChasers