2011/2012 Canadian Rockies Roll Call and StokeThread...

[endure]

^^agreed! first 16 years of my ski life was on a 230 foot vert! you sure appreciate anything you can get out east!

[jetski]

...there is ALWAYS fresh snow to be had if you look hard enough. It stays pretty damned good out here even if it hasn't snowed for a week and you're not hunting freshies.

Oh I know this... Just lots of "die-hard core bro brahs" are too cool for hardpack.
Maybe I'm a weirdo but some of my best resort days have been chasing wind drifts and leeward lines when the snow report said 4 over night.

[f2f]

You I like... We would get along just fine.
I love the passion that small hills create.

that is glen plake's message, and i fully subscribe to it. if we can afford it everybody should be a superstar where the snow is good, but small ski hills remain, and have always been, a way to pass the dullness of the lesser season for everyone but che chosen few

[Lamothe]

About 3/4 of the way up , kamiskotia in northern ontario . gota say the best days of my life were there.

400 vertical drop , and right on the canadian shield 5 foot drops all over the place and even a 60 foot couloir and a couple 40s if we had the snow and you had the balls . They started gladed the year i left i hear its pretty good when it snows 5cm to 10 cm

[Shadam]

and I say ...

get fresh or get farked !!!

[Mex]

I learned and skied a lot at this place, Batawa Ski Club. Going to Camp Fortune, Louis Moonstone, or Edelweiss was "going to the mountians". I'm appreciative this place was around (and still is), because it would have been a long drive to skiing and as a kid I wouldn't have had gotten as many days in.

[time2clmb]

Maybe I'm a weirdo but some of my best resort days have been chasing wind drifts and leeward lines when the snow report said 4 over night.

lol yup. I've had some epic "4cm" report days.

[teamdirt]

First snow of the year this morning in Calgary. Winter is not far off now.

[Fat Mike]

Relative to where I skied in Toronto (yes, in the city... Earl Bales, somewhere in the Don Valley), Moonstone was the SHIT!

FUCK OFF!!! You learned to ski on the old garbage dump turned ski hill too? I think I learned to ski at Earl Bales like 20 yrs ago. I can't believe they actually put in a chair lift there (was just a T-bar when i was there)...I guess that gives quicker access to shred the 95 vert of gnar!!!!

[Fat Mike]

All this talk got me interested so I looked up some pics of the two places I learned to ski:

Earl Bales Park (Downtown Toronto. And yes, this IS the whole hill):


Centennial Park (Mississauga):


Both are old garbage dumps. they may not have been much, but my parents could afford it and it got me started skiing

[TOLOCOMan]

Don't think that's actually Centennial Park (assuming we are talking about the same one in Etobicoke). There was a go track cart circling the hill that doesn't seem to be in that photo. Pretty sure it was at least 25% higher than that too. Then again, it has been 13 years, so maybe it just used to seem bigger than that.

[time2clmb]

Fresh snow overnight in Banff also. So who's turn is it to be the January storm cycle sacrifice this year? You guys still owe me beers

[Fat Mike]

Don't think that's actually Centennial Park (assuming we are talking about the same one in Etobicoke). There was a go track cart circling the hill that doesn't seem to be in that photo. Pretty sure it was at least 25% higher than that too. Then again, it has been 13 years, so maybe it just used to seem bigger than that.

Nope, the go kart track is further west. I used to work 5 min away, it was great. Fridays in the summer were 9 holes of golf before work, go karts after work.

[Eldo]

So who's turn is it to be the January storm cycle sacrifice this year? You guys still owe me beers

I figured last season that if we ever bought you those beers it might stop snowing!

[TOLOCOMan]

Nope, the go kart track is further west. I used to work 5 min away, it was great. Fridays in the summer were 9 holes of golf before work, go karts after work.

I'm talking about one that came DOWN the hill from the very summit, around it in a big spiral. Kind of sketchy in a soap box car....

[JD May]

Anyone have any indication about opening days for KH, Revy, Castle or Fernie? Gotta mark my calendar.

[time2clmb]

That's it, quite cunting up the rockies thread with your east coast puss pimples

Our pimples are soooo much better

[TOLOCOMan]

Sorry, from now on I promise I'll only cunt up the thread if I am trying to set up a "bird watching" event at a coffee shop with my male lover.


sorry to drag you into this mntlion

[Fat Mike]

Anyone have any indication about opening days for KH, Revy, Castle or Fernie? Gotta mark my calendar.

KH Dec 9
Revy Dec 3
Castle ???

[time2clmb]

Hey.....look over there *runs away* Nicely played.

[kailas]

I see Canada has the same problem out west as the USA, too many eastcoast losers!

[Fat Mike]

I try

And now you know, if you are ever planning a ski trip to Onterrible, you've got lots of resources on here...

[TOLOCOMan]

Anybody been through the Pass in the last couple of days? It's looking pretty good on the webcams, but it's hard to tell just how much there is, and they haven't started the report yet for the year.

[That was Pontus]

Some buddies was up there Friday I think, around Asulkan. Looked white to me.

[Eldo]

Fidelity station is showing 39 cm, 52 at Rockfall.

Translation = a long walk for some sketchy turns.

But then again someone has to be first to set a track for this season.