Tim Bester

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BCTalk: TR – Durrand Glacier Lodge

James, of the BCTalk forum, is pushing the envelope of mobile communication and filing blow-by-blow reports from the field while on his backcountry ski trip at SME (Selkirk Military Mountain Experience) in British Columbia. The terrain here is mind blowing and I like the Euro atmosphere. — James

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BCTalk: 2013/14 Coast Mountain Conditions

Now here’s a thread with a pleasing mix of photo stoke and nerdy snowpack analysis. We did get results at 1930m on a NNW aspect in a full pit. CTE (5) down 18 SP; CTM (11) down 62 SP; and CTM 14 down 119!!! SC. On an extended column test at the same pit, we …

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BCTalk: BC Photos, let’s see ’em

While this season’s various regional threads ramp up (some more so than others), MattB’s BC Photos, let’s see ’em has become a growing repository of miscellaneous backcountry stoke, new and old, from many contributors. I take a lot of photos as some of you may know.

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BCTalk: Valdisease 13/14 De-Mechanized

  Forum member Valdez Telehead sends this existential scene in by way of his Valdisease 13/14 De-Mechanized thread. Skinning solo was brutal with a catchy ice crust just under 12-16″ of dry powder for the first mile or so into the “Worth-it” Glacier. Valdez has been nuked with snow as we are 68″ for November, …

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