The Word from Mount 7

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The Globe and Glacier return to the Abbey without the Globe.  Skiing at Battle Abbey March 9th, 2010.

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6 people join Wayne Sawchuk on a horse back journey through the Muskwa Kechika wilderness in NE British Columbia.

There is a slideshow from this trip at:
Muskwa Kechika Slideshow

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Chuck Jennings managed to snap a few pictures of my rescue from the bottom of Lee’s Trees.
Thanks for the pictures Chuck.  It is good to have them.  I was wondering if anyone had taken any shots of the rescue and here they are.

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Last Saturday (March 7th) we were flying out of Battle Abbey and our helicopter was delayed.  I called down on the sat phone.  The heli was being used for an avalanche rescue at Kicking Horse Resort and would be at the Abbey in about an hour which is not unusual.  there is often something of [...]

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During a guided week of backcountry skiing, the first thing you do with the group is an avalanche rescue and awareness training session.  You get everybody to practice with their rescue equipment, you set up mock scenarios and critique the groups’ efforts at dealing with each situation.  You also brief everyone on the snowpack, explain [...]

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Back to Takkakaw Falls with Olivia and Conan.

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Jeff and I explore the awesome Takakkaw Falls cave.

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The Geriatric Telemark Society ski Battle Abbey in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia.

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We had some all American boneheads at Battle Abbey in 2006 who made this little movie. There is some good skiing in it and some sad behavior.
Battle Abbey Bonehead Movie

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Clean burning woodstoves are a great way to heat your home in Golden. We are surrounded by forest, our own local, renewable resource. People claim that propane is cleaner, but just go and look at the areas where petroleum resources are extracted, consider the infrastructure required to process and transport the gas, then tell [...]

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