So it's finally here visa, fly tickets, packed up and hooray for a trip over the ocean where my home for another month and a half will be Golden in BC. I bought a ticket from Vienna, came to me about 230 euro cheaper. At the airport I had some concerns about the transport of a Snow Pulse avalanche bag, but after exchanging a few emails with British Airways was not a problem.

The Calgary team was waiting for me in the composition of Watson (Lukáš Němeček), Švéd (Ondřej Čuba), Mary and Zetor (Kotáb Jenda) who will be our landlord. We chose Canada because it was for us in terms of terrain and amount of the snow pack very attractive. Another plus is that Zetor is in Canada since the summer and has a secured great living about 15km from Kicking Horse resort. Next thing is that he has a spacious car without which we can not really exist. Watson and Švéd arrived 14 days earlier and negotiated with the manager seasonal resort skipass at a discounted price. That is why we saved a lot of money, because one-day ski pass costs just over $ 80.

When I first came to the resort I was welcomed by a sunny weather, but unfortunately the last snowfall was 10 days old and we had no choice then go beyond the resort and look for a untouched lines. That was a quite hard job for us. The resort is very large and consists of 4 ridges, which are divided into smaller subsectors. These different sectors are fired after a good snowfall by a local rescue team, and after that declared as an avalanche safe area. There are so many people who love to ride untouched powder. From the small children to pensioners, just everyone here is riding freeride and diving in the powder.So the best choise is to go out of bounds. Overall there is a need to own a hiking bindings. Due to fear of avalanches there are not so many people who want to ride far from resort. The basic is to get to major lift and get up and then we have two options. The first is to get the ridge to the southeast about two official hikes for the Terminator 1 and 2 peak, we can also continue beyond the T3, but it is necessary to check the avalanche situation because it is a very narrow couloirs without the possibility of escape and with a number of trees at the bottom part.

The second option is to get direction number 4 to chairlifts, which is a new addition at the resort and takes you to the peak of Blue Heaven. From the iron stairs which are appropriately titled "Stairway to Heaven" you can get to the last part of resort to the White Wall. Faces look beautiful if it were not all so incredibly ridden, so usually we go on the direction of the Ozone. Beautifully lit descents are forbidden fruit under threat of confiscation of a ski pass. But we are heading to the back side of the Ozone, where begins the true freeride paradise. Enormous amount of couloirs from the narrow and wider in some of them a drop is a necessity. Most people are not riding those couloirs so they remined untouched for us. At least until some real rider draw a nice line into them.