With winter seeming to have come and gone along the coastal mountains of BC we managed to keep busy in hopes for a reset… it came. After a week of greasy social networking in the whistler village the storm came… along with it came heli availability. The cherry on top.
Check the full blog post HERE!
Wiley gives us a quick update on his ongoing adventures in the BC backcountry with Tanner Rainville, Chris Logan, and Parker White. Check it HERE! Do it.
Level 1 satellite research team #2 reporting in.
Preliminary field studies have been conducted over the last month in the lower mountainous region of Eastern British Columbia.
Field subjects:
Josh Bibby: Native. Bearded. Young man, old soul.
Wiley Miller: Tourist. Tan. Butter enthusiast.
Parker White: Tourist. Unbearded. Lives fast.
Notes:
(Pillows) Noun, plural.
Upon the initial “googling” on said subject matter, no direct comparisons could be drawn relating to indigenous variety.
Trees, rocks and other various matter caked with snow create a ladder of snow terraces to ski with the heavy use of gravity. Reactions range from “super fun” to “scary as F**k.” Conclusions still unresolved.
(Pungees) Noun, plural.
Small trees, usually fir, spruce, or cedar found in the lading of cliffs or pillow lines.
(Pilsner) Noun, Old Style.
Adult Canadian beverage popularized in cinema.
-Observed by Freedle Coty
January 27th, 2012
Escalator is currently out of order – Please use stairs! Josh Bibby somewhere in Steep and Deep, BC!
Nothin’ like a snow cave to keep ya warm and dry while you’re waiting to line up your next shot… or something like that.
Stolen straight from Wiley’s blog at YLEski.com- check it out for all the latest and greatest updates from Wiley as he spends the next 5 months traveling the world loggin’ shots for his next Level 1 seg!
With snow lingering (sic) in the lower fourty-8, we packed up our trucks and headed north. Myself, P white, and Freedle Coty hop skipped over the border to meet up with Josh Bibby and Bryn Hughes. With fresh party grease still on our shoes from the year ending activities, and after some questioning we were let into the land of the great white north, Canada, and more specifically the Kootenay range of the interior BC.
The Dock, just down the street from our shack…
This line is called “the spine of god” proudly proclaimed by our guide as one of the more premier lines in the area. Here Freedle captures the action as P white takes “her” for a ride.
It happens our good friends from Oakley were in town. Dan Treadway, Greg Strokes, and Blake Jorgenson, join us for some apre…
This zone was insanely good to us… (ed note- yes, we were here last year, but can you really have too much of a good thing!??)
enough said… shopping in Nelson w/ Parker.
We have now arrived in Revelstoke and plan on getting after some more goods here in BC… winter carries on in Canada and I don’t plan on leaving any time soon. Anyone know how to get a Canadian citizenship?
Check back- more updates coming soon!
Wiley Miller covering the behind-the-scenes angle while Freedle Coty gets the shot of Josh Bibby sending it into a sea of marshmallows.
While most of the US and Canada is suffering a pretty miserable winter right now, there are a few pockets that seem to have avoided the worst of the warm/dry trends. Josh Bibby found one here- rebating the Stoneyland zone we hit up last year. Jealous yet? I am, sitting here in the office in Denver- thats for sure!
Parker White, Wiley Miller, and Josh Bibby met up with Dan Treadway in the BC backcountry, taking a break from sending pillow lines to hang by this campfire and dry off for a few minutes. Not a bad spot, eh?
An auspicious start to our month-long mission to BC- Parker White and Wiley Miller arrive in Nelson welcomed by skies opening up and dropping plenty of the white stuff. Conditions are sketch right now to say the least, with a few avvy fatalities in the past week along. Everyone be safe out there!
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