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Agreed. I know Dave puts his heart and soul into these events, and this is a real shame.

LOL, I just did, but that's cool! Yeah, the liners I have are out of my UPZ 27's. I thought I still had my old 26.5 Black Diamonds, but looks like I've tossed them. Good luck with the sale!

Let me go have a look in my storage unit. I MIGHT have some UPZ stock liners, but they might be 27's. Might be a couple of days before I swing past there tho.

Steve and son Brad are frequently out at Nakiska and would be great company for you. Plus he has a bunch of alpine boards that I'm sure he'll be happy to loan you for a day. If you can manage a couple of nights away then you should take James up on his offer. The drive to Revy is breathtaking, Revy is a wonderful little mountain town, and the hill's better carving than you'd find around Banff. Plus James is an amazing rider who makes you better by osmosis.

So that's why. I always wondered.

LOL! I bought it, read two chapters, abandoned it when an audiobook came into the library and never went back to it. It will probably be next January before I read it. I preordered the last book in the Olivie Blake's Atlas trilogy for Jan 2024 too, that will probably suffer the same fate.

I'm really surprised that Nakiska, the closest hill to Calgary, hasn't jumped on this bandwagon. As far as I can tell, the resort sits idle all summer - there's no hiking access or biking trails there, despite it being located in a high traffic summer activity area. Calgary is a big city with a huge MTB population, but the nearest lift accessed riding is three hours away at either Fernie or Kicking Horse. The Banff hills have summer gondola access and Sunshine's gets to some great hiking, and Lake Louise is busier in the summer than the winter - but RCR seems content to let Nakiska sit empty for months at a time. Maybe they need a few more bad snow years to convince them.

Interesting that MTB tourism is booming in Canada as well, I can only imagine that e-bikes have a lot to do with that. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ski-adaptations-climate-change-paganella-italy?lid=poajx3beuhpk

Going to second everyone's recommendations for Canada, because your exchange rate is giving you 25% right now and it's likely to stay that way. Calgary is a cheap flight and well serviced from Portland. There's tons of off piste stuff for everyone to do in Banff (bring your wallet), it's a iconic town with dining and nightlife. The other place I'd suggest is Revelstoke. I adore Revy, it's the cutest little town, and I've heard amazing things about the resort even though I've never personally been. If you wanted to road trip a little and had a vehicle, it's a four-ish hour drive from Banff to Revy through some stunning scenery and a few days at each place would make for a pretty cool trip.

Good news if you're a size 24. Shame. I would have scored a set of their tour liners.

Oh no!! I found that out when I went to Whitefish too ... luckily I still had a paper copy in the glovebox of the car, or I'd have been sitting at the border crossing as well. Hope round 2 goes better!

Sorry I didn't stick around long this weekend! The girls wanted to shop and party on Saturday and I couldn't see the top of the hill from town, sounds like it was much of the same Saturday as Friday. Glad the crew's having fun.

Looks like snow on the way, huzzah!

We're in the same boat here. Temps above freezing this weekend, and no snow for a couple of weeks now. It's very thin here, bad even for early season.

I was going to ask - who had to get evac'ed off Chair 1? I can only imagine that was a disaster in the middle of the busiest week of the season ...