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This country is very big
and this is somewhere in arizona
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east-west contrails
think, we flew from dallas to vancouver, so we passed about 15 contrails like...
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maybe New Mexico?
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a ski area
over colorado. I think its breckenridge. somone check my spelling
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that same ski area
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more mountains
I saw a lot of them that week
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The Rail Jam
we got there friday. The Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival ended...
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the winner
this guy, I forget his name, won it.
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hot girls
literally
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getting off the lift
before the 1st run. you are looking at the blackcomb bowl, and the...
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doug
standing at the top of the jersey cream wall.
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fun
the first day we woke to the sound of hang charges and howitzers...
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looking up the jersey cream lift line
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looking up the glacier express lift line
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glacier express
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doug and I found powder
jet lag (and parents) forced us to sleep a bit late. But we still...
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and the pow was good enough for dad
to venture off the beaten path
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dad
right after taking a face shot of the light stuff
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my baby bro
yeah, this shot's pretty cool, what can I say?
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pride goeth before fall
this shot, taken 5 seconds after the last one, reveals doug's ability to...
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near the top of glacier express
hiking towards blackcomb and secret bowl.
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ruby bowl
yes, that would be a marked double diamond. It was fun. real fun
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as steep as it looks
it is easier to keep you speed down on 35-45 degree pitches when there is...
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enlarge this shot
and you'll see that those say "Cliff"
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hahaha ha haha (nervous laugh)
the cliff(s) to left of this pic are the ones that the signs marked.
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the jersey cream wall
our practice field when it came to rock hopping.
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the other side of the mountain
off the backside of blackcomb glacier
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douggie
tearing it up just below spanky's ladder, and right above diamond...
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looking out to skier's left of ruby bowl
sorry, but I didn't dare take off my glove, so it got in the way...
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doug at the top of the horstman glacier
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doug at the top of the blackcomb bowl
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same shot, just zoomed out
yeah, we're nuts
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and down we go
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still down
notice the drop off about 10 yards in front of doug. o that was fun
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one must always look up what they
just skied. thats doug in the middle. The boarder to the right tried...
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a zoomed out shot
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doug
coming off a mogul
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on the outrun
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the top of glacier express
look closely. right above the lowest lift tower you can see, there is...
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paccalolow- a very pleasent chute to ski
also pictured below is the Glacier Express
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haha.
day one at blackomb was so foggy that we found this sign on day two....
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there were two entrances to ruby bowl
this was one of them- hiking the knife edge ridge line over.
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sapphire bowl
haha, well, you a re looking at the entrance, and top part of sapphire...
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sapphire bowl's waste deep powder
it was pretty unreal. Steep, deep, light, and fluffty
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looking up the lower section of sapphire
....speechless...
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looking up Ruby bowl
what a difference visiblity makes. (remember those cliff signs to skier's...
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Whistler!
day 3. up on the side of Harmony bowl. looking back at Blackcomb's 7th...
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Whistler's backcountry
Flute Bowl. 800 acres of hike in hike out skiing. Believe it or not,...
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douggiedo
jumping into harmony bowl
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wow
sunbowl on the left, harmony in the background center, and the peak to the...
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standing at the top of sunbowl
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cornice haven
at the top of The Saddle
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Whistler Bowl
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perfect powder turns
dropping into stuff is so tempting while traversing. What keeps you...
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whistler bowl
look closely, that's a charlift.
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remember the last pic?
this is the fresh snow up on the top right peak. Too bad the entrance to this...
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we haven't moved
pic taken just to give all an idea of how steep this was. This path...
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same old snow
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okay, so I kinda hopped right under the
sun, and well, didn't really land it. But on round two I did which is the...
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bagel bowl
the cornice from the last shot is the one on the left in the pair to...
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scenery
emerald chair in the foreground. garibaldi provincial park in the background
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sick of staying on the ground?
go w/ doug. (jumping a cornice near the bottom of the peak chair
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look closely....
...we are truly wacked....(lower shale)
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The Sign
The official Sign of the Hering ski Vacation. This was at the top of...
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the peak chair.... and me...look closely
I spotted this line from the lift (who couldn't). But when entering it, a...
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my line, and the bomb tram
"the bomb tram" is down on the left. It is basically a tower platform...
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that would be me
that was one of my favorite runs of the whole place. ..right under the peak...
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this one didn't go so well
as you can kinda see, I was leaned too far back, give me a break, it...
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more cornice fun.
highly dangerous. highly scary. highly sick
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me
standing at the top of a double diamond called glacier extreme.
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finding powder
eastern stlye,: short, hidden, PIA to get to and get our of. But we...
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more air
I wish we had cornices in the east
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Whistler Welcome Signs
...they didn't really mean it...
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he might think he's in a downhill
but regardless its air...
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Peak Cornice
Haoky so, in this picture we have me. Below me is the peak chair, and right...
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...Doug needed more setup time
but I felt like skiing/flying. so I went.
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Off the Saddle,
more accurately to the left of the saddle. Never underestimate the...
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Small Jump
bad form. skier's left in Whistler Bowl
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Was Hard to Cartch...
becuase I jumped over doug, and proceeded to look like a chicken.
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Camel Humps
or snow drifts, and a tiny stash of powder
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I am...................
_(fill in your religous affilation's figure head here.)_________. jkjk
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Skiing the steeps
+ lots of snow rolling down the mountain + being halfway down Glacier...
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Collapsing after skiing that
booyeah
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Jumping into Coluoir Extreme
wicked steep. for a correct speelling of Coluoir Extreme, refer to trail map.
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Doug's ski
resting on top of avalanche debris.
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Postered Pan
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JUMP
this is doug and is frame of a movie I took jumping our favorite cornice at...
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Me jumping into Bagel Bowl
the valley floor is 1 vertical mile below.....cool
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Austrailian Hop
...dont know why,. but this is what doug named my chicken like form. The...
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Doug and I, four years ago...
I like to think we have come a ways since the days of hopping off...
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