jamesdeluxe
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- Jul 17, 2020
Now I understand all the hubbub about Lake Louise. We had a gorgeous bluebird day with nice cold temps. At 1 pm, I got set up with ski host Dave, a really nice guy from Calgary who flies 737s for Canadian airline WestJet. For the next three hours, he took me on a bunch of great backside bowl runs. As this was my fourth straight day of bell-to-bell skiing, my legs were getting tired, so I asked him to keep me on the single side of the blacks and leave the double-blacks (which are, IMHO, pretty steep) for my next visit.
Slide in Wolverine Bowl
Skyline
Wapta
Home Run
Summit Platter
Top of Lipalian Traverse
I’m showing my East Coast-ness here, but when I first saw hundreds of dead-looking pine trees all over the back bowls, I figured that it was due to a bark beetle problem like the one that’s taken out all the trees at Brian Head, but they’re larch trees: deciduous pines that lose their needles every fall and grow new ones in spring, like here in the Lipalian Chutes:
Bobcat
Slide in Wolverine Bowl
Skyline
Wapta
Home Run
Summit Platter
Top of Lipalian Traverse
I’m showing my East Coast-ness here, but when I first saw hundreds of dead-looking pine trees all over the back bowls, I figured that it was due to a bark beetle problem like the one that’s taken out all the trees at Brian Head, but they’re larch trees: deciduous pines that lose their needles every fall and grow new ones in spring, like here in the Lipalian Chutes:
Bobcat
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