Wow! videos!
Went skiing up to Lake Louise yesterday for a pretty full day on the hill. I've become quite a convert to the merits of Lake Louise. It's a much longer, more varied, and challenging hill than Sunshine - definitely top notch!
Before the pics and videos, some Canadiana for you:
Pretty funny lunch yesterday. We went to their ski hill outdoor BBQ. Yea. They had grills and umbrellas and condiment stands and everything else set up, and we ate outside on picnic tables with a bunch of other people all sitting there in the -10 degree weather without hats and gloves on. Nobody seemed cold. Canadians :p
Anyway the snow conditions were pretty hard-packed yesterday, so Tracy and I took to racing down a long, groomed run. When we discovered that we could get air off a couple of steep transitions on the hill, we decided to video it. Unfortunately, I went off something a little higher than expected. Best part: guy standing up with Tracy going "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!"
We got a little hungry for powder towards the end of the day, so we went into the backcountry in an area called the West Bowl. My picture site is currently down, so I can't post the clever picture, but backcountry is an area of the ski hill easily accessible from the lifts, but not in the ski area boundary. So it's not patrolled or avalanche controlled or anything. They're generally great spots because not many people know about them - you just have to be more careful. Anyway, here's a swell video of me coming down the top of the "run".
Enjoy! Pics as soon as my storage site comes back up.
Before the pics and videos, some Canadiana for you:
Pretty funny lunch yesterday. We went to their ski hill outdoor BBQ. Yea. They had grills and umbrellas and condiment stands and everything else set up, and we ate outside on picnic tables with a bunch of other people all sitting there in the -10 degree weather without hats and gloves on. Nobody seemed cold. Canadians :p
Anyway the snow conditions were pretty hard-packed yesterday, so Tracy and I took to racing down a long, groomed run. When we discovered that we could get air off a couple of steep transitions on the hill, we decided to video it. Unfortunately, I went off something a little higher than expected. Best part: guy standing up with Tracy going "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!"
We got a little hungry for powder towards the end of the day, so we went into the backcountry in an area called the West Bowl. My picture site is currently down, so I can't post the clever picture, but backcountry is an area of the ski hill easily accessible from the lifts, but not in the ski area boundary. So it's not patrolled or avalanche controlled or anything. They're generally great spots because not many people know about them - you just have to be more careful. Anyway, here's a swell video of me coming down the top of the "run".
Enjoy! Pics as soon as my storage site comes back up.
posted by Anonymous at 12:35 PM
2 Comments:
my favourite part is tracey giggling and in the Very last second saying "oh, i Shouldn't laugh..." :-p
that second run looked sweet, and Very steep!
Hey, I agree with Bonnie - Tracey, that was great! I laughed. It's always funnier when someone else falls. Why is that? Betsy and I went skiing the other night and i took a good fall. Bets didn't laugh however, sort of looked at me as if to ask are you alive mom? Ouch. But we had fun, both skiing and laughing about the teenie weenie slopes here compared to out there. Sad. Thanks for the video, it was great. Heard about your pomalift adventure with Justin Noah, that was funny too!! hee hee
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