Thanks for the kind welcome Rose! :)


Regards,

Grell

You can add my welcome to Grell. Great, he's from CANADA, YEA.
Rob

Yar, we need more canucks on the forum!

You're from B.C. eh? You ever been to Fernie?

Beautiful snowboarding to be had there! Been there 3 times.

OK, burning question. Fernie or Banff?

I know Fernie has the better pow and it's more of a "locals place," while Banff is more commercial, touristy, etc. The only problem is that Fernie is a 4 hour drive from Calgary and Banff is MUCH closer! So, if you were from NYC and you had a 5 day holiday, would you sacrifice two days of skiing for travel, but end up with three days of GREAT skiing? Or would you rather have the 2 extra days and go to Banff?

Also, I'm assuming Fernie has more extreme/death-defying (good) terrain. Is this true?

Yes, Yes, Yes... There is awesome backcountry. If I recall correctly, Fernie is more like 3 hours, but it's a beautiful drive. Banff is good, but as you said, super commercialized (and expensive). Fernie is still fairly unknown, but it's got everything going for it. Trust me, go to Fernie, you won't regret it.

Also, if you like powder, look into going CAT skiing. It's expensive, but worth it 300%.
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YESSS another skier (or should I say, "snow sport enthusiast," seeing as you ride on one plank) on Subsim! I never thought I'd see another one of our kind on here... Then again SUBSIM.com is not the place for that anyway :D .

Backcountry is my thing, but I don't own a beacon or a probe; only a shovel. Also, having never been to Fernie OR Banff, and going with my mom (I'm 15), the chances of me getting under the rope are slim. This trip would be strictly an inbounds thing. And I REALLY want to go to Fernie, but I don't want to lose 2 days of skiing, so we'll see. Also, I was looking at the Big Sky trail map on the website, and my jaw literally fell to the floor. I'll have to tell my parents about that :up:. Colorado is another possibility. In the end, though, it's up to the 'rents.

So you board? When you go backcountry do you use teles, AT, or splitboard? I can get by on Teles, but I'm much more comfortable with a fixed heel. Have you ever done much backcountry in CO? I'm a big fan of the 10th Mountain Division huts... great stuff to be found in the Vail Pass/Copper area. I just wish we had more coverage here on the right coast! Global warming sucks.

Well, you guys are lucky.....Here in Harstad there is no snow at all!!! (Peoples lawns are green, believe it or not....:nope:) But we all enjoy the after-ski, without skiis...:yep:
@Rose: Did you get PM?

Correction: Corrupted File is lucky. The Northeast getting off to a painfully slow start. Once again, I hate global warming.

I did get the PM, thanks alot. I will reply hopefully tomorrow :up:.

Man, global warning....that is a whole other thread....I just think the earth is going through with the ice age cycles. But what do I know, Al Gore invented the internet;)

Personally, I'm a single planker... Haven't skiied in probably 10 years. No, I've never been to CO (actually furthest south ive been is Illinois)

Ad RE: backcountry. If you don't have a beacon, don't worry, they supply you with one and teach you how to use it.

Well, whatever's happening is bad. Where is my snow?!

Btw, have you seen An Inconvenient Truth? Pretty convincing stuff. But we're talking about skiing here. Let's save global warming for General Topics (skiing probably should be in General Topics too, but oh well :D).

Being from NY I suspect we could get all the snow we want down town. It is not the legal stuff but they call it snow.

Peanut butter and crack sandwich!
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