Skiing and Snowboarding

2009 Vancouver Premiere of Warren Miller’s New Film “Dynasty”

Posted in Skiing and Snowboarding on November 13th, 2009 by kaaist – 4 Comments

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“Dynasty” is 60th annual ski and snowboard film from ski and snowboard film making legend Warren Miller. After watching the trailer, I can assure you that even at 85 years he is still skiing and making truly epics videos. Miller is a resident of nearby Orcas Island, from which you can see snow-capped Mount Baker and Vancouver’s North Shore Mountains in the distance on a clear day.

The Vancouver premiere is this weekend at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets are $23 at ticketmaster (plus their bullshit service charges) but you can save $7 by getting your ticket at Comor’s 4th Avenue or North Burnaby locations.If you get your tickets at Comor you also a $50 coupon for Comor and a special deal on holiday bookings in Lake Louise, Sunshine Village and Banff’s Norquay.

The show times are:

Saturday Nov 14    7:30pm    Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sunday    Nov 15    4:00pm    Queen Elizabeth Theatre

As always, WhistlerBlackcomb is sponsoring the premiere and giving everyone free 2-for-1 Dual Mountain lift ticket vouchers. The film is shot in locations across the world, including right here in British Columbia, Washington State, China, Idaho, Alaska, Norway and Colorado. The press release does a good job of describing the film’s epic quality:

“Warren Miller’s Dynasty revels the past, present, and future of winter sport. It is a film that gathers the generations under one filmic roof, from the Crist Family Patriarch to Glen Plake to Daron Rahlves, and the youth explosion of terrain park talent they’ve inspired. It’s like a family reunion, held in neck deep pow, with mandatory air required for entry.”

For more info, check out the Ski The World.

Warren Miller’s Dynasty Trailer:

Check out the jaw-dropping trailer (preferably in full-screen):

Powder Hounds Unite: Whistler Is Opening Early This Year

Posted in Skiing and Snowboarding on November 11th, 2009 by kaaist – 2 Comments
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An interesting rock pillar in Whistler's Upper Bowls.

With all the rain we’ve been having in the Lower Mainland, soft fluffy snowflakes have been falling from the sky in the Coast Mountains making for a very promising early season at Whistler Blackcomb. Whistler was originally scheduled to open on November 26th, but with over 3 feet of fresh snow in the last week and another 2 feet expected by the weekend, the resort has announced it will open early on Saturday, November 14th!

If you have the rest of the week off and you can’t wait for the weekend to go riding all that fresh powder, Mount Baker will be opening on Thursday, November 12th (which is nearly a month earlier than last year) with plenty of knee-deep powder for everyone to enjoy. It looks like this is going to be another solid year of big  fluffy dumps in the Pacific Northwest.