Author archive for Webmaster

  • Banff Mountain Film Fest World Tour! 2017 edition

    Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Date January 17 – 22nd, 2017 and January 28th – 30th, 2017  Description The…

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  • A Skiers Guide to Surfing

    Unless you are Norwegian, you probably don’t live in a place that you can both ski and surf. Over the…

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  • Night Terrors 1 – Ice Climbing at the Wedge Smears

    I’m of the opinion that there are skiers who climb and climbers who ski, but it’s more or less impossible…

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  • Abject Terror at Rampart Creek

    I was able to sneak away from a busy schedule for a brief trip up the Icefields Parkway with a…

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  • Elk Lakes Hut Trip – Not so family friendly

    Greetings, On November 18th, myself and about a dozen ACCers headed to the Elk Lakes Hut on a cold and…

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  • Shifty Avalanche Shovels

      Skis, bindings, ski poles, probes – what can Phil rant about next? Avalanche shovels. Yea, that’s right, I even…

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  • How to get 100+ likes in your photo

    Ok – this won’t be one of those posts that will actually tell you how to do that, but, I…

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  • Probing Probes – A Purchase Prompted Parley

    Re-post from my handy dandy blog. **Updated with responses from G3 and BCA** Next up in Phil’s Winter Gear Discussion…

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  • Two Segment Poles Are Stupid

    Re-posted from my handy dandy blog. You thought I was done after ranting about skis and bindings? Nope. I’m a…

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  • BITS 2016 / 2017

    With winter quickly approaching and the stoke rising to get on the skis, the ACC Calgary Section is looking for…

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