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 Orage Masters - The Anti-Comp - VIDEO
The Orage Masters- the self-proclaimed ‚"Anti-Comp"- went down on Blackcomb Mountain during the Whistler World Ski and Snowboard Festival last week. 8 teams made up of some of the best park riders from different ski brands battled it out in a head to head elimination. Serious names and serious bragging rights don't make this a serious competition however. Read on for the video and explanation of want may well be the way every comp should be. > more Biggest Line of the Year from Anthony Bonello | 14/03/2008
The 3/4 Couloir in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the Canadian Rockie Mtns is so aesthetic, they even printed it on their money. On October 13th, we decided it needed to be skied and it made for the most memorable first day skiing of the season ever. > more Rainbow Heli Drop from Anthony Bonello | 1/04/2008
Rainbow Mtn stands directly opposite the Whistler Village. From the top of the resort you can see the broad summit that gives way to rolling glaciers before spines and pillows at tree line and steep glades back down to town. The thing is, all of it is a short helicopter flight away. > more Red Bull Cold Rush Big Mtn- VIDEO from Anthony Bonello | 12/02/2008
Red Bull Cold Rush: noun- A contest consisting of the sickest skiers.
> more Red Bull Cold Rush Comes to BC- VIDEO
Red Bull Cold Rush rolled into Red Mountain for the week and the opening day went off. All the big names, big pow and big hits showed up for the Slopestyle stage today. What more could you ask for?
> more Revelstoke Revisited from Anthony Bonello | 5/02/2008
The quiet town of Revelstoke is still very much a quiet town. The ski hill development is off the ground and all the hype is justified, but the town seems undeterred. We rolled into the heart of BC Powder Country for a week of the deep stuff and it didn’t fail to deliver. It over delivered. > more Fairy Meadows Hut from Anthony Bonello | 21/01/2008
Billy Putnam was an old, bold dawg and a dreamer. He dreamt up the idea to build the Fairy Meadows hut, a 25 minute heli flight north of Golden in the Adamant Range. The hut is smack in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains that hold arguably the greatest snow on earth. For a week in December, the Biglines crew and the Assiniboine light hangers flew in for a Christmas party that none of us will ever forget. > more Deep Winter Photo Contest- Whistler
The second annual Deep Winter Photo Contest was held at Whistler Blackcomb last week in the deepest of winter conditions. An initiative of photographer Paul Morrison and the godfather, Mike Douglas to capture the essence of the dark and heavy storms that pound the Coast Mountains in January, it pits 6 of the best ski photographers against each other and the elements. The contest went off again this year and brought with it some upsets and perhaps a changing of the guard. > more Mid-Winter Bluebirds from Anthony Bonello | 24/01/2008
Mid-winter blues kicked in a little while ago. What are midwinter-blues? Its that feeling when you have skied more powder than your legs can handle, it isn't snowing 10cms everyday, and people you know are dieing in the mountains. Thats the blues. But one bluebird day in the gloomy, overcast heart of winter can be like overdosing on Prozac. > more Long Days, Longer Laps and Equally Epic Nights - Las Lenas VIDEO from Anthony Bonello | 10/01/2008
Las Lenas is huge, but it isn’t scary. It is supremely aesthetic and inspires you to leave a single, snaking track down each of its many faces. The thing is, it is very possible to do so with the Marte Chair running and incredible peaks like Cerro Martin, Entre Rio and Torrecillas all within easy boot-packing distance. From the top of these, the mountains stretch on seemingly forever, and so do the possibilities. > more A Big Mountain Mecca - Las Lenas, Argentina from Anthony Bonello | 15/12/2007
South America is incredible if you are so inclined to look towards the mountains. Las Lenas is a dream come true if you look back down them with skis or a snowboard on your feet. When the Marte Chair is running, you can forget the likes of Chamonix. This is truly a big mountain, freeride paradise where you can ski the same terrain as the French Alps and the champagne pow of the North American Rocky Mountains all off of the lift. > more Bienvenidos al Patagonia - Bariloche, Argentina from Anthony Bonello | 3/12/2007
It was snowing hard as the huge, blue bus ran the gauntlet over the pass between Chile and Argentina. In Bariloche, it was snowing harder, and with stiff backs and heavy bags, we dug in for the night at a hostel. Grande flakes of snow fell in slow motion all night and when we woke up, town was caked and no-one could move. The sky had relieved itself of 1 meter of snow and we weren’t going anywhere- that is to say, the ski hill was shut down, and when it did open, we weren’t leaving until we had skied every centimeter of it. > more No Hype, Just Record Snow - Mt Baker with Video from Anthony Bonello
Forget British Columbia, just for a second, and what are you left with - Mt Baker. And that aint a bad option if you ask me. Sporting the most snow on the ground anywhere in the world, Mt Baker sometimes plays second fiddle to Whistler, but once you just tear yourself away from the hype, it will appeal to the snow purist the world over. I had heard lots, but never been - until last week. What a revelation. > more Rogers Pass Reverie from Anthony Bonello
When the avalanche bulletin is reading 3 x Low, and the sky is as blue as the eyes you wish your girlfriend had, you do have lots of options, but where do you start. Me, I bee-line it for Rogers Pass and focus on some of those lines you always ski past because conditions aren't just quite right, or when they are, you cant see them for the constant pounding they are getting by the precipitaion of yet more snow. With a record amount of snow at Rogers Pass, the snowpack is most certainly deep and more stable for this time of year than it normally is. Throw in blue bird skies and it is game on for exploring some of the most breath-taking alpine terrain in the world. And when the day is done, you can still enjoy a cold beer as you clip out of your skis. Kind of sounds like the European Alps; just with more snow. > more A Long Way Beyond the Rope from Anthony Bonello
When it hasn't snowed for 2 weeks, you have a few options; hit the park, bitch and whinge, or grab your backpack and go exploring. If everything just beyond the rope has been schralped, then you just have to go a little further. And that's exactly what we did during the last 2 weeks of high pressure. We learnt of a hut not even marked on the map and went to find it. Where was it? > more Mt Field - a Canadian Rocky Mountain Experience from Anthony Bonello
Just a stones throw from the Trans-Canadian Highway, between Golden and Banff, the hamlet of Field lays in the dark shadows of the canyon. On the south side, preserved just a few minutes walk from the main street are a handful of world class ice climbs, and to the north, Mount Field. During a recent spell of high pressure and good stability, Brandito, the white Mexican, and I headed up to claim another Rocky Mountain Peak. > more Rogers Pass Avalanche Incident Debrief
Rogers Pass, 22nd February, was a lesson we were lucky to get away with. If we didn’t respect the power and potential of an avalanche before hand, we certainly do now. With the forecast, our own observations and experience, we did know better, but in the end, we dropped in and were quickly reminded of our mortality. Read on to see the debrief video and hopefully learn a valuable lesson from our mistake.
> more Living the Dream - Mike Wiegele Heli Skiing from AB
Okay, so I know it isn’t really the poor, ski bum thing to do, but when you get the opportunity to hang out with the rich and famous while heli-skiing, you can't say no. Naturally enough, when the chance to go to Mike Wiegele’s Helicopter Skiing came up, I accepted immediately and went to wash the only collared shirt I own so I didn’t look like such a skid at the dinner table. > more Light Powder at the End of the Tunnel - Termas de Chillan, Chile from Anthony Bonello
After everything that could go wrong went wrong, the gods finally smiled on us and dumped 30cms of fresh, breathless powder on Termas de Chillan on Tuesday night. We woke up to a foot of dry snow piled on the bannister on the deck, and immediately the trials and tribulations of the past week were out and the electric energy of a pow day was in. Yeah!!! > more As Good As it Gets - Bluebird in Termas de Chillan, Chile from Anthony Bonello | 3/11/2007
I don't know if there is a happy ending to every story, but there was to this one. After all the shenanigans of getting into and out of Santiago, our first day at Termas de Chillan, was epic, but nothing compared to the next 2 days of bluebird skies and cold, deep powder. Check out the action from day 2 and 3 of our Termas stop. > more Cordillera Huayhuash Climbing Expedition - Jirishanca Peru - Part 2 from Anthony Bonello | 3/11/2007
The alarm went off and I opened the tent door, willing the wind to blow it back in my face so I could back to sleep. I was greeted by stars and moonlit fluted mountain faces. It was perfectly still, so I relayed the news to Patrice who was buried deep in his sleeping bag dreaming of fondue and tartiflette and other French delicacies. The roar of the MSR stove told him all he needed to know and we resigned ourselves to deserting the warmth of our bags. > more Cordillera Huayhuash Climbing Expedition - Yerupaja Peru - Part 3 from Anthony Bonello | 10/01/2008
Yerupaja in Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash weighs in as the third highest peak in South America but is by far the most difficult of them all to summit. A stone throw from the scene of Joe Simpson’s “Touching the Void” it is a truly intimidating prospect. Standing at the base, however, the 1200m of sustained 70-85° ice doesn’t look so big, but that’s just an optical illusion. Yerupaja is 6635m and the summit ridge is perhaps 3 long, dwarfing the vertical gain. Rather than au cheval the ridge and move slowly sideways, we decided to just go straight up. > more |
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