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The Kootenays: Eight Reasons to Head to Fernie This Weekend

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by Sonu Purhar.

by Dave Quinn
As I write this it is early March – and the hot sun streams in my window, made hotter by reflections off the meltwater puddles on the street in front of my house. The first flowers of the year are coming out on the warm hillsides in the valley below.
This is not your [...]

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The Kootenays: Avalanche!

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Dave Quinn.

By Dave Quinn
In hindsight, a sudden, low “whumph” should have been my first warning that I was about to be buried in an avalanche. Yet all I really remember is arcing my skis toward safe terrain in the trees – as, instead of slowing, I, and the entire snowslope around me accelerated – over the [...]