Whistler/Vail North 2020/2021

[snowtastic]

Seriously though: i thought canadians were like some sort of hicky elves..... friendly bearded people living in the middle of nowhere trading their in secret stashes for pearls and shiny things from the old continent?

Lol, subtle [emoji2] word travels fast from Badisch Columbia to here. Didn’t expect to see other euro dudes here munching on popcorn reading poop stories.

[kootenayskier]

Hilarious when people in the Sea to Sky corridor get territorial. Proximity to that many clueless gapers creates all sorts of opportunities for making money and anonymous hookups, but endless growth, greed, and stress has an obvious down side. If it doesn’t make you happy, leave. Most mountain towns in the BC interior are more diverse and interesting (or at least less redneck) for the people who apprenticed the lifestyle in and around Whistler, and then moved on to perfect it. There’s a crew here who bailed at the end of the Toad Hall ski bum era in 74 and a slow trickle ever since.

[LHutz Esq]

Hilarious when people in the Sea to Sky corridor get territorial. Proximity to that many clueless gapers creates all sorts of opportunities for making money and anonymous hookups, but endless growth, greed, and stress has an obvious down side. If it doesn’t make you happy, leave. Most mountain towns in the BC interior are more diverse and interesting (or at least less redneck) for the people who apprenticed the lifestyle in and around Whistler, and then moved on to perfect it. There’s a crew here who bailed at the end of the Toad Hall ski bum era in 74 and a slow trickle ever since.

Ya - sea2sky refugees- go east! It’s THE place.

... just don’t look north. Nothing to see up here. Just tundra and polar bears no hills

[LeeLau]

Or was it because you went to that cabin, and blogged about how easy the 1.5hr ski was to get there, and gave detailed directions, and how great the access to skiing was. So every MECer and ACCer who reads your blogs went looking for this place.
This is why on your next time into that cabin you came back to the cabin to find your clothes and gear outside in the snow and were told you weren't welcome.
It's funny how your memory or your side of this story differs.

Online anonymity makes you brave. And wrong

There are no posts from me giving directions to the hut or mentioning the hut. I never even mentioned Steep Creek online pre 2007 because it was quiet till the hut got put in. After that the zone was busier.

Easy to check since a simple Google search will show you all this. Let me make it easy for you Mr Local

I never stayed in the hut. I've used it to cook but not left stuff there or had it left out in the snow. Does that make it better, or worse, that I've not had my stuff thrown out of a hut? Remember that we are talking about a hut built on public land accessible to all.

I can understand why you don't want to be public. The asshole in you shines bright

Here's a TGR thread mentioning a Steep Creek overnighter. I deliberately didn't mention a hut

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php/107122-TR-12-30-07-Somewhere-north-of-here

And the blog post http://www.leelau.net/sharonandlee/d...steep-creek-3/

[t.odd]

haha, Pemby locs love them the olde "lee and sharon single handedly blew up the duffey secrets" trope...over a decade later and still trying to push it. It was not the big secret secret that many like to think it was at the time, and the cabin was pretty much immediately inundated by VOC/ACC/MEC groups from the first winter onward. Lots of cars overnighting along the highway at the bottom of a logging road has that effect, let alone many of the builder participants posting photos of the build on facebook when that platform was really just kicking off too.

[gimpy]

Sooooo much douchebaggery in this thread....... but I think teamdirt wins the prize......what an incredibly lame story

[teamdirt]

Sooooo much douchebaggery in this thread....... but I think teamdirt wins the prize......what an incredibly lame story

Lol-where can I claim my prize

[XXX-er]

This.

Basically everyone in the S2S corridor.

Also thing I don't get... why even live in the S2S corridor anyway if you want to avoid cidiots? People claim they never go into the city, then why not go east? Cheaper, less people? What am I missing here? Most of people I know living in the corridor do so because of the proximity to Vancouver, can't have it both ways.

... and coming out of the woodwork, I'm hard pressed to believe Lee shit on, or put shit on someone's vehicle. He's never afraid to be an asshole online and has helped me out on a few occasions. Secretly putting shit on someone's vehicle feels pretty out of character. That said, COVID is making people do some weird shit, so I guess we'll never know?

it would be a secret because nobody seen lee put poo on anybodies truck,

its an acusation based on circumstantial evidence the incident happened in an area busting with overuse where anyone could have driven up that road seen the truck/ flung the poo/ and left,

I chauffeured Lee around for a week, they picked up the tab for all the food and booze, never flung any poo don't seem like poo flingers so it just doesnt add up

[unclebill]

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No it was that a lot of positive tests where coming back on people who had come out for extended visits. And of course the source is heard it from a friend of a healthcare worker.

That isn't what you posted at all, not even close.

"Yeh why not, apparently a lot of the people testing positive for Covid in Whistler are recent arrivals from ON and QU fleeing their lockdowns, surprising I know that the people who are traveling, are the ones who are infected. Come on out and help us close down."

[t.odd]

and actually, the ER doctor didn't say anything about postive covid tests, it was just patients visiting the ER on their trips from those places and the chance they could be spreading covid along the way https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...d-19-1.5870771

[Maximus Farcisimus]

Dropping in to 800m of pow.




Then a few hrs later-brown pow




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[nortonwhis]

Dropping in to 800m of pow.


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Then a few hrs later-brown pow

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Thanks for the stoke. This thread sucks right now!
I think I saw these two tracks yesterday from Rohr?
Th only snap I got from two good days out. Scuzz was hanging around a lot on Sunday unfortunately and yesterday was ok but not great conditions. Still great to be in the sun!

[Judo Chop!]

so why is it assumed that localism is a bad thing?
true localism is about keeping things in check. It's about a community of people trying to keep things tight for those who are respectful, and let people who aren't know that they should be.
Being a local has a bit to do with where you were born or live, but mostly it's about time spent doing and being; and whether that time made a contribution to the local community around a thing. It's about understanding and respecting the history and the established pecking order and habits, albeit sometimes with a firm nudge the yet uninitiated. Without localism, or at least what it should be, shit goes unchecked and it all falls apart if everyone does what they want without consideration or situational awareness because "nobody owns the ocean/mountains man!". I've seen it in a few sports.
Sure, some "locals" do some shit that crosses the line, and unfortunately that becomes misrepresentative of 'localism'. Be respectful and you won't experience that. But also, pay attention to who is crying foul. It's often someone taking a stand against something they just don't understand because getting offended is easy. And just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.

Re: Lee. I ain't got no dog in this fight. but sitting here with popcorn I'd say if you want to get through it, perhaps instead of treating it like a trial where you need to defend yourself on technical specifics, realize that you need to appeal to humans and their emotions and thoughts about you. I mean.. I guess it depends on what you care about clearing your name for though; legal charges or the court of the community.

[LeeLau]

Re: Lee. I ain't got no dog in this fight. but sitting here with popcorn I'd say if you want to get through it, perhaps instead of treating it like a trial where you need to defend yourself on technical specifics, realize that you need to appeal to humans and their emotions and thoughts about you. I mean.. I guess it depends on what you care about clearing your name for though; legal charges or the court of the community.

Judo - I thought about turning the other cheek and ignoring it. But the way Sylvie put it out on social media the mob got involved. Whether or not I liked it this became a public trial. And sure Sylvie accused me but the pitchforks then dragged in my wife; with the mob being here on TGR and on Sylvie's facebook posts.

There's a very simple way to establish my innocence in this public trial and that's for my offer to have poo samples tested. I'm also fully aware that Sylvie supporters and Lee haters will not believe a word I say no matter the outcome and I accept that as I cannot change people's opinions. Likewise there are my friends who believe me without my need to offer to submit to a (degrading) poo sample. I'm also aware of the "methinks thou doth protest too much" perception (ie why am I so vehement about this). But I didn't do this. I can prove it. So let me prove it.

[paulster2626]

so why is it assumed that localism is a bad thing?
true localism is about keeping things in check. It's about a community of people trying to keep things tight for those who are respectful, and let people who aren't know that they should be.
Being a local has a bit to do with where you were born or live, but mostly it's about time spent doing and being; and whether that time made a contribution to the local community around a thing. It's about understanding and respecting the history and the established pecking order and habits, albeit sometimes with a firm nudge the yet uninitiated. Without localism, or at least what it should be, shit goes unchecked and it all falls apart if everyone does what they want without consideration or situational awareness because "nobody owns the ocean/mountains man!". I've seen it in a few sports.
Sure, some "locals" do some shit that crosses the line, and unfortunately that becomes misrepresentative of 'localism'. Be respectful and you won't experience that. But also, pay attention to who is crying foul. It's often someone taking a stand against something they just don't understand because getting offended is easy. And just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.

Re: Lee. I ain't got no dog in this fight. but sitting here with popcorn I'd say if you want to get through it, perhaps instead of treating it like a trial where you need to defend yourself on technical specifics, realize that you need to appeal to humans and their emotions and thoughts about you. I mean.. I guess it depends on what you care about clearing your name for though; legal charges or the court of the community.

There's a difference between "hey around here we do things like this" and "I don't want anyone else coming here." The first one is great and promotes respect for culture and all that stuff, the second just makes everyone angry with each other.

I think the poo-accuser should have to also provide a sample. This looks like a classic frame-up smear campaign! Had no idea there was such drama in the corridor, puregravity would get to the bottom of this in an hour where is he?