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CANADA! - Sunshine Village and Lake Louise 1/26/14 - 1/31-14

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@davidski 296645 wrote:Such a great report, congrats on a great trip "aboot"



The above picture really struck me because they look like the steep winding narrow trails at Stowe or wherever, were stuck into all that northern grandeur--



Anyway thanks a lot for killing me as another month starts slipping by



Yea the mountain aspects are very unique there. Since you are at such a high latitude, the sun doesn't really hit "high noon". So they've built their runs basically on all the valleys they run east to west. This allows a midday "all sun" time. With shadows on either side in the morning or afternoon. If you were to take Breckenridge's 4(5?) peaks, and line them up side by side across a valley, that would resemble the layout of the different peaks in Banff.



I can't speak to Stowe as I've never been, but I imagine them having to cut long winding trails out of these steeper aspects is what you are referring to. Most of the below tree line trails were this way.
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Great TR, and interesting commentary. I need to get up to BC and Banff soon, it's been on the list for quite a while.
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The one regret I have, if any, was that I didn't do the $90 day up to Kicking Horse. They "guarantee" powder at that mountain. But I had plenty of terrain to explore where I was.
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Congrats. Looks like a cool trip. I need to do some research and head that way.
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@RMacSki 296631 wrote:





what is this, a flask for ants?
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it would have to be at least, 3 TIMES that big!
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Cool pics! Bummer the nukeage didn't come. I have had my trips like that out west :(. Looks like you made the best of it.





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The dog sledding thing looks awesome. When I was a kid I loved Jack London and Gary Paulsen books and those pics just reminded me I havnt done dog sledding yet.
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