Youtube Competition

My friend, Tag Danforth's, father, has won a chance to play in a million dollar poker tournament. He gets a chance to play against a famous pro Daniel NeGreanu IF his youtube video gets the most hits. All you have to do to help is to watch the 2 minute youtube video (link to follow)

It is actually quite entertaining.

My most memorable moment of Tags's dad was when working on Tag's house renovation with Tag and Len (the star of the video). After quite a long period of hamering and of no talking at all Len asks "So Mark" ........followed by a very long pause.........."are you the Man?" It might sound funnier after you see the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rltj9Od1K0

Remembrance Day in Rossland

We had good weather for Remembrance Day this year.

The most noticeable thing for me this year was the lack of World War 2 Veterans, their numbers are in decline it appears. The nice thing to see is how supportive Rossland population is of the occasion.

More Snow in Rossland

Well I may have to admit that the Mountain Biking and Waterskiing seasons are over! Fine with me. I was woken up this morning by the sweet sound of a snowpow scraping along Spokane Street, followed that silence that only 10 cm on snow can produce.

It was enough to inspire our 15 year old dog Jesse!

The Skiing is INCREDIBLE and it's November

I actually did not get to have a run personally, still due to my injury recovery (I swear there is no other reason I did not have a run) but Todd Larsen did! Yesterday Todd, Isabelle and myself went out. Todd made some inspiring turns!

Before you give Todd too much credit, it was not that bad, the temperature was about 6 Celsius! The only thing frozen when we got back to Rossland was the smile on his face.

Very Early Turns

The Snow in Rossland has melted, although now it is quite cold, but it has remained up high. This is Kieren Gaul from Big Red Catskiing skiing last week

Cindy Devine Ball Exercise

Corrections from Britta and Christof Wieser

Some time ago I posted a blog about Britta and Christof Weiser, two heliskiers we met in New Zealand. Britta sent me this letter correcting a few points regarding their Heliski carear:

Hopefully we will run into them again next New Zealand winter; They are very nice people!


Hi everybody,
Thank you Mick - it was very nice to read the blog about ourselves:
"Christof and Britta Wieser: Legendary Heliskiers".
All the same, I would like to put three details right, because we do not
want to offend anybody.
1.) I am almost sure, that there are older "active" heliskiers around -
especially during the "Senior-weeks" at CMH. Therefore it seems
important to me to point out, that Christof's record reads as follows: "
Christof Wieser (Austria), born 19 September 1928 Heliskiis regularly
every year". The "REGULARLY" ment that GWR was asking for 50 (!) days of
heliskiing PER YEAR which is so very special about Christof.
2.) We have never been to TYAX, instead those 3 million feet we skied
with CMH, Canadian Mountain Holidays.
3.) Himalaya was with HHS former Himachal Helicopter Skiing, were we
achieved 2 million verts.
An other million feet we collected trying out different places, like
KAUKASUS (whilst it was still UDSSR), GREENLAND as well as different
places in CANADA.
We would very much appreciate if Mick could change these details in the
blog!!
Our greetings to Mike and Kevin and of course yourself - perhaps we are
going to run into each other at some other
heliskiing location, who knows?
Kindest regards,
Britta + Christof from Austria