More Snow in Rossland

Well I may have to admit that the Mountain Biking and Waterskiing seasons are over! Fine with me. I was woken up this morning by the sweet sound of a snowpow scraping along Spokane Street, followed that silence that only 10 cm on snow can produce.

It was enough to inspire our 15 year old dog Jesse!

The Skiing is INCREDIBLE and it's November

I actually did not get to have a run personally, still due to my injury recovery (I swear there is no other reason I did not have a run) but Todd Larsen did! Yesterday Todd, Isabelle and myself went out. Todd made some inspiring turns!

Before you give Todd too much credit, it was not that bad, the temperature was about 6 Celsius! The only thing frozen when we got back to Rossland was the smile on his face.

Very Early Turns

The Snow in Rossland has melted, although now it is quite cold, but it has remained up high. This is Kieren Gaul from Big Red Catskiing skiing last week

Cindy Devine Ball Exercise

Corrections from Britta and Christof Wieser

Some time ago I posted a blog about Britta and Christof Weiser, two heliskiers we met in New Zealand. Britta sent me this letter correcting a few points regarding their Heliski carear:

Hopefully we will run into them again next New Zealand winter; They are very nice people!


Hi everybody,
Thank you Mick - it was very nice to read the blog about ourselves:
"Christof and Britta Wieser: Legendary Heliskiers".
All the same, I would like to put three details right, because we do not
want to offend anybody.
1.) I am almost sure, that there are older "active" heliskiers around -
especially during the "Senior-weeks" at CMH. Therefore it seems
important to me to point out, that Christof's record reads as follows: "
Christof Wieser (Austria), born 19 September 1928 Heliskiis regularly
every year". The "REGULARLY" ment that GWR was asking for 50 (!) days of
heliskiing PER YEAR which is so very special about Christof.
2.) We have never been to TYAX, instead those 3 million feet we skied
with CMH, Canadian Mountain Holidays.
3.) Himalaya was with HHS former Himachal Helicopter Skiing, were we
achieved 2 million verts.
An other million feet we collected trying out different places, like
KAUKASUS (whilst it was still UDSSR), GREENLAND as well as different
places in CANADA.
We would very much appreciate if Mick could change these details in the
blog!!
Our greetings to Mike and Kevin and of course yourself - perhaps we are
going to run into each other at some other
heliskiing location, who knows?
Kindest regards,
Britta + Christof from Austria

Early season skiing in Rossland

Early snow=Early action at Rossland Secondary

Early Snow in Rossland

It started snowing last night and it has not stopped since. I guess we have had 20-25 cm so far. Could be a good omen for the season.