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Mountain Sledding: Finding Places to Slide on Snow
Sledding – the ancient activity of sitting on your butt and getting over the snow far more efficiently than most wheeled vehicles. Today, unless you ...
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Find Epic, Deep-Winter Powder at Chatter Creek Cat Skiing
Deep in the Canadian Rockies sits Chatter Creek, a cat skiing and heliskiing lodge with such an impressive landscape and remoteness that arriving is like ...
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Altai Skis Demo and Instruction at Sitzmark Ski Area in North Central WA (Feb. 6)
Altai Skis, the guys that make the ski/snowshoe hybrid the “Hok” as well as other snow sliding gear, is having a demo and ski day at Sitzmark ...
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Explore the Methow Valley’s Snowshoeing Trails and Vast Backcountry
Just as winter snows shutter many of the region’s outdoor recreation destinations, the Methow Valley, a multi-sport Mecca on the dry side of the Cascades, ...
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Winter Camping in Comfort—Tips to Stay Warm, Dry and Have Fun Sleeping Out in the Snow
Comfort is a relative word to apply to camping. I’m perfectly comfortable spending days at a time in the backcountry, but I recently heard of ...
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Juniper Dunes Hiking
When last winter failed to develop into anything even resembling winter, I was forced to reconsider my outdoor options. While the skis sat unused in ...
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Home Sweet Home to the North: Fernie, B.C.
If ever I wanted to be adopted by a town, I’d like to be able to call Fernie my home. In fact, in a single ...
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Celebrate Winter at the Rossland Winter Carnival
I’m standing in a snowdrift on Spokane Street in downtown Rossland, British Columbia. As is typical of streets in old mining towns in the mountains, ...
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January Is Learn to Ski/Snowboard Month!
Local resorts are offering too-good-to-pass-up deals on lessons, rentals and lift tickets for adults and kids who want to learn to ski or snowboard during ...
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