Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Welcome Wilf Friedlander!
Please welcome the youngest member of the Extremely Canadian Crew, Wilf Friedlander. Son of Hutch and Tory, Wilf wears his Ex-can colors proudly. He will likely soon be seen tearing up alpine bowls with his dad, and chasing his mom down tight couloirs, if he can only conquer that pesky walking thing. Congratulations Tory and Hutch! Can't wait to see you all.
Derek and the Ex-Can Crew.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Top Ten List of Why I Love (Lub) Japan
10. The toilets. The musical and heated ones!
9. The onsens. Nothing better than soaking your bones in hot mineral
baths after a good day on the mountain.
8. Tatami mat beds. I LOVE them. My back has never felt so good.
7. The beer. Sapporo beer. One of the oldest in the world. They
have perfected the art.
6. The food. Wow. The Japanese have some awesome food. More than
just sushi.....
5. The single chair. A little alone time to contemplate your next
powder turns.
4. The Apres Bar. New to Niseko. Good times post skiing to share
the tales from your ski day.
3. Hanks. We love hanging out at Hanks. He is the consummate host.
Great home cooked food by one of the best fishermen in Hokkaido.
2. Night skiing. They light up the whole mountain with stadium lights
and your lift pass is valid for 12 hours! Now thats good value!
1. Konayuki. Translation: powder snow! There's nothing like it.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Record Breaking Snowfall!
Whistler has recieved over 880cms of snow since Nov 1st. For our freinds south of the border that's 29 feet of snow! As I look out the window to type this it's snowing heavily so we could break the 30ft mark before the end of the weekend. For anyone who is near B.C. or has access to a car, boat, bus, train, plane, or 3 wheeled bicycle... Get up here! Join us for a powder fiesta on terrain so big we can ski double-black lines for 2 days without ever having to ski the same run twice.
Hope to see you soon. Derek and the EC crew.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Naka Naka Naka
Another epic day in Niseko. We skied silly deep, virtually
ridiculous powder today. The pictures will attest to this. We skied
untracked powder down from the peak all the way to Hanazono One. Its
was awesome. It was so deep in parts that it was choking us. We
needed snorkels. The weather cleared a bit and we had decent
visibility. Which is just an added bonus. What does visibility
matter when the snow is going over your head? Looking forward to
more of the same tomorrow.
Here's some pics of Peter Lockyer and Lloyd Feldman .....
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Monday, January 15, 2007
More DEEP White.
Jill and Bill
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Going DEEP in NISEKO
Tough day choking on it. Bummer......
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Blog this
Blog this.
This guy had it coming. SEE PICTURE!! When you ski in a closed area in Niseko Japan they take it very seriously. Mr. Bred I hear is a bar owner in town. I wonder if it will be good or bad for business?????
That said there is still plenty of freshies to be had here and no reason to ski in permanently closed areas. Not to mention the shitty layer sitting on the rain crust from two weeks ago that now has meter plus on it. TREAD LIGHTLY!!!!
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Day two in Niseko
We Lub Niseko Powder. Things are changing here in Niseko. Sitting in the bar and there is a Avalanche course finishing up. WOW. Two years ago there was almost no information about stuff like this. Its good to see there are taking it to the next level.
Fist client arrived today. Big bad Billy goat Dunnigan. Happy as ever, Canadian Whisky in hand.
And lets not forget Ian from Niseko Ground Connection who hooked us up with some great Accom.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Niseko Jan 2007
More pics from Japan.
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Japan Niseko 2007
Hi Folk's Well once again Niseko is going off. Jill and I worked till 2pm because evedently Whistler is as well. Not to worry though you can ski till 9pm in Niseko. Here are some shots from 3pm on Grand Hirafu. Not bad at all.
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Monday, January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Skiers! Whistler is experiencing some of the best ski conditions imaginable right now. This weekend's clinic had 24 of Extremely Canadian's best and brightest out on the hill. It was hard to keep a straight face as we slid past the Chrismas crowds through our priority lift line, on our way to shredding some of the wildest lift accessed terrain there is.
The forcast is showing intense snowfall for the next two days, with moderately less intense snowfall for three days after that. Wax up your fat skis, it's going to be deep!
Hopefully We get to make some turns with everyone soon.
Derek and the EC crew.
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