The measure of a successful adventure trip is Fun. Fun may be considered to arise chiefly from the execution of adventure-related activities, but personal experience has led the author to speculate that Fun is actually the result of a complex interaction between a large network ...

A valley in the Columbias, February 2005, 7 PM. Supper is over and the dishes are done. A knock on the door. I grab my pack and splitboard. Time.

A Dialogue Regarding The Snowpack Climatology Of Western Canada 1. A CHAIRLIFT ENCOUNTER Another Sunday in March, two thousand and seven, The rain kept on coming, pounding and numbing. Friends flew to the bar like angels to heaven. But the lift was still spinning and I ...

As the highway climbs west from Golden, past the lower reaches of Glacier National Park, into the narrow defile between Mounts Tupper and MacDonald, there is a spot where the snow always begins to fly...

The winter of 2002-2003 was an alarming avalanche wake-up call for the entire nation of Canada. Several high profile avalanche accidents, involving both avalanche professionals and recreationists, killed too many people, made headlines across the nation, and gave backcountry ...

It had been a poor early season, but winter finally showed up on the first week of January. At long last, my stokeometer started to rev up and redline, so I made plans to meet up with the Biglines crew in the western Purcell region of the South Columbia mountains. Read on ...

Bad jokes are a protracted and ponderous burden, hanging around like a dead bird around a sailor’s neck. Actually, bad jokes are even worse, because at least one person usually finds a bad joke funny and saves it for later, whereas even the most hardened crusty old salt has ...

Now that winter is upon us it is always a good idea to practice with your beacon and make sure that it is in good working order before getting out backcountry shredding. We pulled this one from the archives. When everything has gone wrong on a backcountry mission, you or ...