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Heres a couple more photos from the trip up north.

Such an awesome place!

Weekend looks good, so its back to Revy for 3 days of straight snowingboarding!

BIG Update - PK Twenty 10 and Revy/Golden Combo

So its been over a month since my last update. But good news, this post will make up for the extended dry spell! So go grab a coldie from the fridge or snow bank outside, and get comfy.
First things first. The trip up north. After driving 3000 kms, narrowly missing 12 moose on the HWY, and driving by brail for hours, we are back home safe.

30 km/h hard left turn

Driving by Brail

3000 kms round trip

We racked up 6 days of lift access and 3 days sled access during the trip. Reaching new terrain that has been non lift accessible since I started riding PK 17 yrs ago! There was a dry spell during the trip, but an incredible temperature inversion made up for that, and I bagged a virgin tree-run above the lake of clouds filling the rocky mountain trench.

Virgin Tree-run

Mountains on the left far background are on the OTHER side of Williston Lake

It felt so heart warming to be riding with my childhood best friend and the love of my life in a place where I have such a strong connection. Special thanks to Michele & Aron, and the rest of the crew for making this trip what it was. WHITE POWDER!!!

Michi

Aron & Michi

This year has been magic. I have gained a deeper connection with the trees I constantly interact with. We are just energetic guests in their still, silent domain. Finding lines between them as they creak and groan from stiff old age, jibbing their saplings and deadfall with speed. Passing by generations of growth as they watch over us gliding through them with style and grace, buttering the same fresh white gold that cakes their limbs and weighs them down. They stand firm, rooted, solid in stature. If only they could talk to tell us the stories of all the travellers they have seen over the years. We are only visitors, but they give us comfort and shelter out of the storm and make us feel at home for just mere moments in their lifespan.

Jibbin

Indy-bone

Every night, especially New Years Twenty 10 went down with all sorts of crazy-balls stuff. In summary, we burnt the candle at both ends and it’s a good thing we were outside the reaches of the modern day law, cause it was straight wild up there.

Instant Fun

After watching the weather closely with anticipation, it was off to Revy & Golden to see what the famous Pineapple Express has given up this year. This will be the second year in a row that I have been able to hit a Revy/Golden combo during the Pineapple Express! Checkout this Grade-A footage from Sledshot.com's collabo w/ BMCProductions of last years fun. http://www.youtube.com/user/sledshot#p/u/27/efHl_UQVwEI

Driving through the Rogers Pass @ 2am alone was sketchy to say the least. But when I got to Revy, I was greeted with a break in the storm, and good friends to share a few tree-runs with. The reports only said 7 cms, but we found the goods with balls deep BCPOW and lots of large platforms in series to launch off. Its always good laughs, soft landings, and smiles in Revy.

Pineapple Express

RMR Bulletin

Then driving back through the Roger Pass, I was challenged with some pretty hairy conditions. What they forgot to mention on the warning board was windshield wipers full blast and 100+ oncoming semi trucks that don’t care about the center line! Sometimes I wonder who is behind the wheel of the semi truck, and just hope one day I don’t become a statistic of the Trans-Canada HWY. Jarret Banks, RIP. We miss you Bro

First Warning

Second Warning

I made it safely back to Golden, and just in time for the Pineapple Express to really let loose. The boards reported 34cms in 24 hrs, but it was way deeper than that in the wind-loaded zones & chutes we where thrashing. With a strong crew of 3 skiers and 2 boarders, we made the most of the puking skies. Then the next morning, the storm left just as quick as it rolled in, revealing sun & dark blue skies with a thick blanket of fresh, deeeep, BCPOW. Walking to the gondy, artillery echoed through-out the Columbia Valley. Heres an edit of the morning laps.

KHMR & Slackcountry

Faceshots galore

That weekend we had super super fun-times up at 2 cabins @ KHMR’s Purcell Woods. With 6 kegs being emptied over 3 nights, official beer-pong table & flip cup claiming the bragging rights, and a shot-ski that everyone had a few laps on. And on the final night our Olympic Theme party went down as all-time! From the Jamaican bobsled team, the injured freestyle ski team, head-to-toe 1988 Calgary Olympic official attire, to the official torch bearer. Sorry I don't have any Olympic pics...camera crapped out from the beer spillage! I managed to fall down the stairs towards the end of the night hurting myself enough to sluff off the next day of sled access to tend to my wounds. Still recoupin here till the next storm rolls through.

Party Cabin

Shot-ski

Shot-ski in Action

Official Beerpong Table

This season is getting close to being half done, and I have 20 amazingly great days in the bag, and are on-track for another 50+ day season for the 4th year in a row! So happy! But how cool would it be to shred full-time and still pay the bills?!? That would be all-time.

If you got tickets to all the 2010 Olympics Snowboarding events, good chances I’ll be seeing you there. Just hope that some fresh BCPOW dumps on Cypress before things go down. But as it stands now, it looks like we will be having a brown, fake Olympics. Not the white gold that would make this Olympics truly Canadian. But hard dates and weather usually never work out, so not really that surprised. Are you?

Till the next round, peace out YO.