{"id":1028,"date":"2010-03-14T23:35:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2018-04-17T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T03:59:54","slug":"tr-whitewater-and-nelson-2272010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tr-whitewater-and-nelson-2272010\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Whitewater and Nelson (2\/28\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nelson is a pretty cool town- by far my favorite town we visited during our stay in interior BC.<\/p>\n

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Similar to how Boulder was about 10-15 years ago, Nelson has a lot of good things going for it.
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The next morning, we headed to Whitewater.
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This mountain, called Ymir, caught my immediate attention.
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We met up with Juho and Laura, who are in Nelson for the winter from Finland, and their British friend, Gavin. Then, after purchasing a one-chair-ride ticket, out for a nice slackcountry tour we went! Frank and Juho checking out the choices.
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Shortly after, we found ourselves hiking this ridge.
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Juho, admiring the views!
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Ymir as seen from up high.
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Looking across at the ski area.
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The Valhallas, as seen from afar.
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Gavin and Laura.
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Time to ski! Frank.
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Gavin.
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Laura.
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Juho.
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Brittany.
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Looking back up at part of our line.
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Gavin gearing up for our skin out of the valley.
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When we reached the ridge, we parted from Gavin who wanted to make sure to watch the Olympic US v. Canada gold medal hockey game. Juho, Laura, Frank and I continued on for another lap.<\/p>\n

Frank.
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Juho.
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Brittany.
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Laura.
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Great day at Whitewater, despite catching the US losing gold to Canada \ud83d\ude42 Whitewater, despite it’s small size, has a lot to offer. Thanks to Juho, Laura, and Gavin for showing us the goods!<\/p>\n

If you’re visiting this area, you might also want to check out Snowwater heli skiing<\/a> or Valhalla cat skiing<\/a><\/p>\n

Other Montana-Canada Road Trip Blog Posts<\/strong>
\nRoad Trip Update<\/a>
\nItinerary<\/a>
\nBridger Bowl<\/a>
\nWhitefish<\/a>
\nFernie<\/a>
\nKicking Horse<\/a>
\nRoger’s Pass<\/a>
\nRevelstoke<\/a>
\nNelson and Whitewater<\/a>
\nRed Mountain and Rossland
\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just outside of the town of Nelson, BC is the small Whitewater ski area that’s packed with wonderful choices for skiers willing to venture out of bounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backcountry-skiing","category-canada","category-resort-skiing","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432942,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/432942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}