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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 1:39 PM
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I have been skiing for 6 months now. Recent shots up on Brohm Ridge prove that the snow on north aspects are still awesome. Heading to Hawaii tomorrow but looking forward to coming home to more powder! These shots are from the last few weeks and show how awesome it is up there...enjoy! Photos of Brad Dean, John Syslak, Kim Duess and me.
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Hope, B.C.
Canada
617 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 1:53 PM
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Awesome!!! Ride it out until August!  |
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 ass wigglin, cheese lovin, 4x4 drivin, apostrophe hatin, hiking chick who loves camping on snow
spaceship..
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 1:55 PM
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It'd be nice if "winter" would last all summer.. in some places (not everywhere)
Very nice photos... sigh...
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Fungi Filmin', Wine Drinkin', 'Shroom Eatin', Early Risin', Deer Whisperin', Curry Cookin', Macro Maniac
Chilliwack + Osoyoos
3618 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 2:05 PM
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Originally posted by norona
That machine makes skiing the backcountry real easy, eh ???
I love it !!!
C'Jack... |
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
1047 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 2:12 PM
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You bet to get up a rutted out logging road for 20km. We tour to get to the good stuff...not all day to get to ski. I know people think that skiing from a sled is easy but as I offer anyone. Rent a sled come with me and if you can make it out on your own without getting stuck or your not shatered halfway through the day. I will pay your rental for the day. I have taken some of the fitest people up and they don't last a day..I xc'd 1800km across alaska so i don't need to prove that i am not lazy..
The beaty of the machine is it is just like a car. It would suck if you had to walk or ride your bike to whistler to ski for the day ...wouldn't it. |
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Fungi Filmin', Wine Drinkin', 'Shroom Eatin', Early Risin', Deer Whisperin', Curry Cookin', Macro Maniac
Chilliwack + Osoyoos
3618 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 2:28 PM
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Don't beat me up... I'm on your side... Just jealous... I used to have one in Ontario, and when my gold stocks cough up big $'s for me, I'll get another plus an ATV !!!
Just thinking that many CT'ers would frown upon it though... LOL...   
C'Jack... |
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
1047 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 2:55 PM
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Chilliwack Jack I would never do that to you. You are a great character here and I enjoy your posts and antics. Frown as they might people have to learn to co-exist. I try not to place an ephisis on the sled here. It is a hiking site. However on previous post many have e-mailed me to find out more about this area. I tell them all I know and the best and secret way to get up while avoiding most sleds as it is not fun grinding up a road with sleds going by you.
I like to sled but I also like to ski...it is my way. Others don't have to agree with it but they can't bag on it either especially without them ever trying it.
Funny thng is some think I can't be fit and sled or moto. In fact I might be the only person in the world who has done World Cup Loppet XC skiing and Sleding or Dirt Biking Racing. I would love to drag them on some of my training I do every day. The outdoors are a big place with lot so of different things to do. People can't complain of what George Bush is doig in Irac and to it's people if they can't get along here. |
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Fungi Filmin', Wine Drinkin', 'Shroom Eatin', Early Risin', Deer Whisperin', Curry Cookin', Macro Maniac
Chilliwack + Osoyoos
3618 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 3:06 PM
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Originally posted by norona
Chilliwack Jack I would never do that to you. You are a great character here and I enjoy your posts and antics. Frown as they might people have to learn to co-exist.
You made my day, Big Fella... Thanks...
Now back to work before the Boss sees me... Wait a minute...
C'Jack... |
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 3:09 PM
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Man that looks good.I got no prob with sleds,especially when used smartly and as in your case almost necessary to get to the prime ski area.Same sense as me taking my 4x4 as far as possible to cut travel distance so we can enjoy the day close to our destination  |
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 3:39 PM
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Originally posted by norona
We tour to get to the good stuff...not all day to get to ski.
Most folks I ski with tour to get away from machines . . .
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Originally posted by norona
Frown as they might people have to learn to co-exist.
. . . says the bull to the china shop? 
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North Vancouver, bc
Canada
760 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 4:48 PM
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Originally posted by JP
Most folks I ski with tour to get away from machines . . .
hmmmm......here I was figuring it was to get some good backcountry skiing in....who knew? |
Edited by - Rock Star on 05/02/2007 4:49 PM |
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Fungi Filmin', Wine Drinkin', 'Shroom Eatin', Early Risin', Deer Whisperin', Curry Cookin', Macro Maniac
Chilliwack + Osoyoos
3618 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 5:10 PM
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Originally posted by Aqua Terra
Man that looks good. I got no prob with sleds, especially when used smartly and as in your case almost necessary to get to the prime ski area. Same sense as me taking my 4x4 as far as possible to cut travel distance so we can enjoy the day close to our destination
You know, AT and norona... you're both (maybe me too) cut from different cloth to the others... and I approve... 
Why is it that we see things differently to everybody else ???
C'Jack...
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 6:00 PM
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Because as Dr. Wayne Dwyer says. "We are open to everything and attached to nothing". I don't have time to complain, I am too busy having fun, running, biking, kayaking, dirt squirting, sledding, skiing and boarding all over the place. It is those sitting on the sidelines that are constantly complaining and deciding how others should live.
I find it odd that people look down on others and see themselves as more pure or better because they don't sled or used other motoized stuff. Of course somehow a car is excempt form all of this. How you do your exercise is a matter of choice and one is not better than the other. I have never met any sledder or dirt biker who thought that running, hiking, touring or any other sport was dumb or they did not want them on their terrain. I understand most people do not like the noise but don't worry about that the sound will soon be gone! So start working on what you will complain about next...
I am not trying to convince anyone to buy a sled or a dirt bike but talking out of your butt like you actually know what the sport is all about having never tried it is ridiculous. You do not have to go to any area where there are sleds or dirt bikes anyway. There are way more parks, touring areas, trail systems where I can go for the rest of my life if I never want to see these when I am out there. For those who really get outside and explore you realize this, BC is a big place that would take many lifetimes to explore. I go to Lytton a lot to ride dirt bikes and there about 10 people there on any given weekend. You could spend all day hiking or mountain biking over 200km or trails and never run into a dirt bike, in this dirt biking area. I take my bike sometimes and ride some epic single track all alone at 7000 feet. That is BC to me. And for those who think dirt biking is easy. Let me take you out and then you can decide for yourself. There is a reason why some of the motorcorss superstars are amongst the fittest in the world, on a dirt bike or a pedal bike. Infact some of the motogp riders train with pro road cycling teams in Europe. |
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North Vancouver, bc
Canada
760 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 6:03 PM
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Speaking of winter being far from over....just got an email "snow alert" for Mt Seymour
Gotta love it here.... |
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Terminator shade wearing, summit questing, double Grinding, Gordo voting self annointed 'dumb ass' and Aconcagua Bagga who dreams of Robson, Teton, The Judge, and.....and....
Port Moody, B.C
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 7:10 PM
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 7:31 PM
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Originally posted by Rock Star
Speaking of winter being far from over....just got an email "snow alert" for Mt Seymour
Gotta love it here....
Amazing how winter hangs in.
Those look like wintertime pictures. It was wintery cold too last Sunday at Flora !
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 7:36 PM
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Hi Jeffster,
thanks to Norona for the Trailhead info, I was able to get to about 3000ft before I was stopped by a patch of snow. The snow line was another couple hundred of meters or so further. This was the FSR road past Cat Lake. |
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 8:22 PM
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Originally posted by norona
I have never met any sledder or dirt biker who thought that running, hiking, touring or any other sport was dumb or they did not want them on their terrain.
Well of course not. How does hiking or skiing impact sledding or dirtbiking in any way. To say that we must all "share" the wilderness is laughable. How does a sledder ever have to "put up" with a hiker or skier? In what way is his experience marginalized by a silent, self-propelled person?
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Originally posted by norona
I understand most people do not like the noise but don't worry about that the sound will soon be gone! So start working on what you will complain about next...
Yeah well in my experience the sound travels over 10k and the smell of burning two-stroke gas over 2k.
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Originally posted by norona
I am not trying to convince anyone to buy a sled or a dirt bike but talking out of your butt like you actually know what the sport is all about having never tried it is ridiculous.
No one is denying that sledding and dirtbiking are indeed fun. I think you need to realize, however, that there are lots of people on this site who go hiking and skiing to get into the wilderness so that they can be away from noise, and the presence of snowmobiles impacts them IMMENSELY.
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Originally posted by norona
It is those sitting on the sidelines that are constantly complaining.
54 days of ski touring and counting . . . |
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
6784 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2007 : 8:22 PM
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| We are getting dirtbikes next,many,many roads are so Fu'd up this year that my truck can no longer get with in acceptable reach of our favourite destinations.We tried the mountain bikes,they work fine on logging roads ,but not on steep rutted,lumpy sidetrails,that are full of blowdowns and blown out creek-crossings and many km long. |
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North Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 9:59 PM
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So JP you are saying because you hike you own the trails. There is no way you can smell a 2 stroke 2km away. Anyway the point is 95% or more of BC is off limits or unatainable to sleds and dirt bikes. So you have more than enough space to do your thing.
If your going to live in a world with 5 billion people (and counting) you better learn to get a long. Unfortunately the space we enjoy so freely in BC leads many to think that they own a lot of the space around them.
I hike a lot as well and if I go skiing or hiking or mountain biking or kayaking i know where to go if i want to be truly alone. Then in the middle of summer when I am paddling up the arm and someone is wakeboarding by me with their boat I undrstand that they have as much right to be there as me. I can be upset about it and complain or i can learn to co-exist and enjoy my sport and not deny someone else's right to be out there.
When i go skiing at Brohm all year there are sled around and i have never once smelled them or been near them as they can not go where we ski. I can hear them but it does not bother me. If it bothers you all you have to do is tour one peak over where they can't go and your golden.
The atitude you and many have is like the parents who did not want skateboarders riding downtown and wanted to ban them, even though some kids as young as 12 -16 make 6 figures from skateboarding. The city of North Vancouver got smart and built skateboard parks even though everyone thought it would create crime in those areas and kids would be loud and bad. What has it done. You never see kids skating and bothering people in the city. They now have a place to go and do their amazing sport and excel in safe environment.
Each sport is a sport and deserves a safe cool place to be designated for the purpose. Sleds should not be everywhere and they are not but if you try and eliminate all the areas then you will get people going where they should not. There is enough space fore everyone and I guess all i am saying is that you have to respect to get respect. Most people here do not want to sled and that is great but don't dish others for wanting to. I understand that many want a quiet place to go and hike and discover their passion and they have the right to do that. It is not going to happen in Brandywine or Brohm but in 95% of the provence these areas exist. Likewise I don't go to the Grind and then complain of all the people.
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Vancouver, BC
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Winter is far from over!
