NEW YEAR, NEW ADVENTURES

On behalf of the lodge members and staff of the BLBCA, we would like to wish you and your loved ones all the best for the holiday season. We hope to see you in BC's inimitable backcountry in the near future. 
Here's to a new year, full of new adventures!

EPISODE 04 | MOUNTAIN  ESCAPES

In our latest episode, our host Brad Harrison sits down with Brad Sills of Callaghan Country's Journeyman Lodge located near Whistler, BC. Learn more about the history of the lodge and the area through Sills' 40 plus years of experience; and a backcountry story you'll never forget! 

Listen to our past episodes featuring conversations with father and son team Ron and Lars Andrews of Whitecap Alpine Adventure,  Grandi and Sara Renner of Talus Lodge and Jasmin Caton of Valhalla Mountain Touring.

NEW PATAGONIA FILM

New Patagonia Film Explores the Classic Bugaboos to Rogers Pass Ski Traverse with a Team of Three Women

For ski mountaineers, the Bugaboos to Rogers Pass is a North American classic, a bucket list traverse for aspiring guides and recreational skiers alike. The route has a poetic beauty to it cutting north-south in the Columbia Mountains and bookended by two mountain playgrounds, Bugaboo Provincial Park and Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park. This epic was pioneered in 1958 by Americans Bill Briggs, Bob French, Sterling Neale and Barry Corbett. They made a tough, stoic quartet. For the era, it was a monumental nine-day tour de force that involved more than 11,000 metres of ascending and 135 km of weaving through the Purcell and Selkirk mountains. They did it before Canadian Mountain Holidays had built Bugaboo Lodge and could provide helicopter food drop support. And considering the heavy gear of the day and intricate route-finding required, it remains an impressive achievement still hard to match for the average backcountry skier.

Last winter, two Patagonia athletes, skier Leah Evans and snowboarder Marie-France Roy, teamed up with Nelson-born ski guide Madeleine Martin-Preney to tackle this iconic ski traverse. Evans and Roy are front and slack country shredders to the core. The latter of the two had never rappelled on a climbing rope or slept in a tent in winter while on a ski traverse. Conversely, Martin-Preney is a veteran of many long traverses and slogs and is a skilled ski mountaineer. Their adventure is captured in the recently released Patagonia film Mind Over Mountain.

CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED JAN. 12

Remember to check the BLBCA blog on Tuesday, January 12th for our contest winner announcement.

The winner will get to choose a trip to one of our 32 member lodges and take a friend with them! Prize valued up to $5,000!

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