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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boomerang |
| Description: | I heard that a few minutes of meditation and a sun tan in your face will make you ride faster...rumours, lol...but don't ask the dermatologist, lol. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | Whitehorn 2 |
| Description: | This year, the riding was all about the chutes. They get you addicted so bad that you will even not want to walk horizontally, lol. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Ski patroler and unknown visitor. |
| Run/Trail: | Near the green ski patrol hut. |
| Description: | 1 of 2. Ski Patrol in Action. Sir, let me ask you this again. Are you reporting that a bear introduced himself as Yogi, stole your lunch, and skied down that way? |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Ski patroler and unknown visitor. |
| Run/Trail: | Near the green ski patrol hut. |
| Description: | 2 of 2. Ski Patrol in Action. Before I start investigating, let me ask you, what are you drinking from your mug? |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Ski patrol team |
| Run/Trail: | Top of the gondola. |
| Description: | After 4 p.m., top of the gondola, Ski Patrolers' meeting. I heard that to be accepted by their peers, the new ski patrolers have to bring something special to the meeting. This year it is a palm tree....rumours, lol. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Fence building team |
| Run/Trail: | Sunset Terrace |
| Description: | I heard that the fence building crew is a highly organized hierarchical team. The leader wears a red jacket, his assistant handles the red shovel, the senior members work with yellow shovels, and the first season apprentices get the sticks....rumours, lol. Thank you for your hard work this season! |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Martin from Czech Republic |
| Run/Trail: | At the base. |
| Description: | Martin from Czech Republic is a liftie. I heard that the Czech staff had a competition for the most popular employee of the month...the winner gets to wear a Bunny hat on Easter weekend...rumours, lol! |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova and The Easter Bunny |
| Run/Trail: | Top of the gondola. |
| Description: | Mr. Bunny, are the chocolate eggs hidden over there? |
| Submitted by: | Olly Lewis |
| Location: | Ptarmigan Trees |
| Rider(s): | Jamie Twell |
| Run/Trail: | |
| Description: | |
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| Submitted by: | Olly Lewis |
| Location: | Ptarmigan Trees |
| Rider(s): | Jamie Twell |
| Run/Trail: | |
| Description: | |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Above Grizzly Gully. |
| Description: | 1 of 13. On one gloriously gorgeous April day, while perched above the Grizzly Gully, Tom The Skier expressed a wish to convert to snowboarding. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Mid-mountain Learning Area. |
| Description: | 2 of 13. The next day, flattered by Tom's interest in my sport, I loaned him my board and looked forward to spending a day on a bunny hill...but.. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Mid-mountain Learning Area. |
| Description: | 3 of 13. ....but Tom headed straight to the mid-mountain Learning Area run, where he started performing all kinds of beginner's snowboarding yoga moves. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Above the base. |
| Description: | 4 of 13. With significantly improved posture, Tom made it to the base, and the Sun started shining brighter! |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Top of the gondola. |
| Description: | 5 of 13. Emboldened by his success in the Learners Area, Tom ventured on the other side of the mountain, down on Pika. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Pika |
| Description: | 6 of 13. Pika posed a new challenge for Tom. It was not only narrowing down, but also sloping side ways until.... |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Pika |
| Description: | 7 of 13. ...the gravity pulled him to the ditch. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Larch |
| Description: | 8 of 13. Sustaining no injury in the ditch on Pika, and still pain free, he pointed it straight down on Larch blue run. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Larch |
| Description: | 9 of 13. By the afternoon, Tom became addicted to the speed. Fortunately, the Larch blue run is wide enough to accommodate other riders as well as Tom while he was breaking his own speed record. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | |
| Description: | 10 of 13. Yeah...there was the occasional Up Close and Personal encounter with the ground, which was followed by..... |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | |
| Description: | 11 of 13. ....the move Thanking the Snow God For Making the Encounter With the Ground Soft, as seen in number 10. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Top of the gondola. |
| Description: | 12 of 13. At the end of the day, Tom looked this good on the snowboard. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Hiker's Paradise |
| Description: | 13 of 13. He was on his skis the next day, and promissed to hire a snowboard instructor, so that the photographer doesn't have work so hard on his snowboarding pictures, lol. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | North Cornice area Boundary Bowl |
| Description: | Plowing through the powder at the Boundary Bowl. I thank Tom Willows for a masterful handling of the camera. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | North Cornice area Boundary Bowl |
| Description: | It was a ride to remember. Definitely, coming here was worth the hike. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boundary Bowl |
| Description: | I was standing on an outcroping. Below me was a drop that would be lethal. But it provided the best view. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boundary Bowl |
| Description: | Tom is about to drop in to the April's Fool powder in Boundary Bowl. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boomerang Bowl. |
| Description: | Top Gun Tom decided to take a break to watch the valley below. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boomerang Bowl. |
| Description: | Looking back at mid-point. A lone snowboarder is walking on the ridge. On the left is in-bound terrain. On the right is out of bounds back country steeps. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | Above Boomerang Bowl. |
| Description: | The snow formations on the ridge were so bizare, yet, so beautiful. Behind me is a steep out of bounds area. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Run/Trail: | Trail towards North Cornice area. |
| Description: | On the way to the North Cornice. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Eagle Poma |
| Description: | April's Fool powder. |
| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Below the Ski partol hut next to the gondola. |
| Description: | April's Fool powder. |
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| Submitted by: | Jarka Dvorakova |
| Location: | Lake Louise |
| Rider(s): | Tom Willows |
| Run/Trail: | Trees below Eagle Meadows. |
| Description: | April's Fool powder. |
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