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Breaking Halifax

December 9, 2009

Before I moved to Whistler I was living in Halifax Nova Scotia with a similar life style to what I have now just with smaller mountains. I always was looking for some action to shoot and one of my good friends Cory was into break dancing, I saw some pictures of what he could do [...]

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Hiking Tricouni

February 18, 2009

In the early spring I had recently moved from my old place where I lived all winter to a new place in Creekside. The new place was great and it was nice to meet some new people (roommates). So one sunny after noon me and my roommate Brian Hockenstein went out to Tricouni Mountain in [...]

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Third asent of Rainbow Mountain, the rescue.

February 11, 2009

Continued… If you have not read the first part to this two part blog posting you can read it here Rainbow Mountain Sledding Day 3 The day after we a descended from Rainbow mountain without my 2002 Skidoo Renegade, Shaun and I did a bunch of research to determine why my sled’s clutch wouldn’t engage. [...]

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Rainbow Mountain, day 3 sledding, second asent of Rainbow

February 7, 2009

About a week and ago Shaun, Johno, Courtney and I went sledding up Rainbow mountain on a beautiful. We zipped up the groomed cat tracks till we got to the clear cut where we stopped the sleds to take a look around. I decided it would be a good idea to do a few runs [...]

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Peak 2 Peak

February 5, 2009

So on December 12th 2008 Whistler finally opened its long awaited highly anticipated Peak to Peak chair lift. The largest chair light spanning 2 peaks of 2 mountains in North America. I wasn’t able to attend the opening ceremonies due to shifts at work, but I got to enjoy it Chaos free a few days [...]

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2008 First Snow Fall

February 2, 2009

This year in winter Whistler was a bit of a late starter to the snowy season. But the best feeling in the world are the first mornings of the season when you wake up to the lushes’ powder in your drive way and seeing the beautiful pillows of snow on top of the trees. It [...]

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Musical Bumps

January 31, 2009

So this summer was my second summer living in Whistler. Since last summer I had always regretted not getting out and hiking around on Whistler. So I talked to a friend of mine Brian Hockenstein who has lived in whistler for along time and has hiked some of the trails on Whistler before. So Brian, [...]

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Alta Lake

January 28, 2009

So over the past while I have been going back into the archives of the past 6 months to see what photos are still in limbo. I stumbled upon a few images I shot early on in the summer. ——— As we started getting some beautiful weather In Whistler I decided I should dust off [...]

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