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

[LSeed]

Lucky bastards. Lake Louise is soaked and flooding. tent campgrounds evacuated and the trailer one is missing a road. Water is about 4 feet away from the laggans deli as well. Supposed to get another 80mm by tonight plus whatever melts

[time2clmb]

So what's it doing up high?...pissing rain in town here too but snowing at treeline. I will probably head up to ski some where tommorrow. Snowing at treeline here is great news....should be the same for Louise area I would think? June freshies woooooot.

[LSeed]

Not to sure what its doing up high, was just at the base of the ski hill and its pissing rain there. About to drive up the parkway for a bit of a relaxation sesh. I'll get some beta. I'd be keen to rip some laps tomorrow if theirs freshies so I wouldn't need no stinkin crampons.Nobody in Banff has any that will fit skiboots unfortunately.

[jamesp]

Water is about 4 feet away from the laggans deli as well. s

it'd probably be for the best if that abomination of a bakery was cleaned out anyways....

[LSeed]

^^hahaha Still make a damn good brownie though. I went for a drive up to bow summit and it was puking rain and the trees were all green as far as I could see.

[Alex.C]

They've made (twice) the worst coffee i've ever had in the Bow Valley, the first time I assumed might have been a once off, I was wrong. Haven't braved it again since, so who knows it might have improved...

Bit of earth movement in the Sunshine carpark last night too:

[time2clmb]

Laggans used to be good. It's turned in to shit...gotta keep pumping crap in to the tourists. Trailhead is 10x better.

[LSeed]

Only thing I've ever really had at laggans are the brownies and the sausage rolls. The fact that its like 10bucks for anything is pretty discouraging. Rivers supposed to peak at 2 tonight. We will see if the sand bags by the post hotel hold up or else I'll be swimming for all the wine bottles.

[Lamothe]

quick screen grab while seeing what clips i still have. Man it was a good winter

[time2clmb]

Some good snow above 2400m. Unfortunatly the skiing has something to be desired as there was zero freeze up to there at least. Moist slush under the new stuff. The high north faces are probably pretty wintery again if you have the mental fortitude to get though the major suckage below.... might be worth heading up if we get a good freeze after this precip. Raining again in Banff, glad to get some turns in between the gaps. Hopefully this falls as snow overnight. After Lseed was on the 93 the snowline dropped to highway the previous night and was wintery looking there yesterday. Highway snow up to treeline was melted out today but holding nice above.

Also, use caution and make lots of noise if heading out on any trails around Banff. Tons of bear activity around. Today was my 16th bear in the past 2 weeks.

[Alex.C]

Well I guess that answered the old question of whether a bear shits in the woods. :P

[grinch]

good shots t2c. thats a fuck of alot o bears

[time2clmb]

The only ones I didn't get shots of were the mother black and cubs while biking. She was watching me a little to close and I just wanted to get the fuck out.

[mntlion]

as its snowing in banff right now:
rocky mountain passport still not released: fingers crossed for under $2000 and included kicking horse.

ski big three $1299: lake louise, sunshine, norquay

super pass: @1229: Lake Louise, Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, and Nakiska

RCR pass @ $989: Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, and Nakiska

SSV only $677

LL only: $679

mid week norquay pass $99 (with 3 other people)

or maybe I should just start the 12/13 rockies thread now?

[Alex.C]

Snowing in downtown Canmore and it looks sorta wintery up at Sunshine:

[mntlion]

Soul ski and bike in banff is having a sale NOW!

The Apocalyptic RAIN SALE. First person to walk into SOUL wearing a Bathing Suit, an inflatable toy(inflated) can have anything in the store at 30% off. An EXTRA 5% added if you can beat me in a game on our new AIR HOCKEY TABLE. ..... AND GO


check soul's facebook page for info and pics
http://www.facebook.com/SoulSkiandBi...80109632037712

[Lamothe]

Soul ski and bike in banff is having a sale NOW!

The Apocalyptic RAIN SALE. First person to walk into SOUL wearing a Bathing Suit, an inflatable toy(inflated) can have anything in the store at 30% off. An EXTRA 5% added if you can beat me in a game on our new AIR HOCKEY TABLE. ..... AND GO


check soul's facebook page for info and pics
http://www.facebook.com/SoulSkiandBi...80109632037712

got any dynafits or a pair of g3 Onyx's laying around? il'l show up in the sexiest lil thong you have even seen. i know no shame for cheap gear

[mntlion]

got any dynafits or a pair of g3 Onyx's laying around? il'l show up in the sexiest lil thong you have even seen. i know no shame for cheap gear

nope, Diamer freerides.

also lots of bikes, and summer stuff

[LSeed]

Sick Pics T2C. Just got back from a camping trip these weekend saw 6 black bears and 2 cubs a wolf a bunch of deer and elk and a moose and her (calf?) crossing a stream. All up by the mica damn north of revelstoke.

[mntlion]

PSA for bow valley people
http://banff.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sel...AdIdZ387203866

I know Josh, ex-ski guide, that just got excepted into med school. Stuff will be in good shape. No idea on the prices, but look and offer

[time2clmb]

Still tons of snow up there. Freeze has remained virtually non existent near and couple hundred above treeline. Just enough fresh to carry weight on skis. Foot pen to ground through moist slush = nothing big or steep. Skiing in a bit of a drizzle reminds me of learning to ski on the North Shore mountains of Vancouver. Decent skiing and should be awesome once (if) we ever get a melt freeze again. Been doing some stuff loner style but finally got a couple victims to take pics of.

[time2clmb]

...oh....and:

[nickinbc]

Sick Pics T2C. Just got back from a camping trip these weekend saw 6 black bears and 2 cubs a wolf a bunch of deer and elk and a moose and her (calf?) crossing a stream. All up by the mica damn north of revelstoke.

Saw a moose swim across the reservoir just south of Mica Village today. It made good time too. Bit too cold for me!

[skiitsbetter]

Rode up to check out highwood yesterday. Still some delicious looking options for when it freezes.

[go_up]

Skied it many, many moons ago. Wish I could find the photos.

http://biglines.com/articles/st-nicolas-peak-week

I don't think anyone acknowledged the awesomeness of this post. Well done. Time to call in those beers from T2C.