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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sledneckin\\u2019&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000173062\\\" style=\\\"width: 600px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-medium wp-image-1000173062\\\" title=\\\"EJack_Sledneck\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck-600x400.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"400\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck-90x60.jpg 90w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/EJack_Sledneck.jpg 1000w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Eric Jackson getting it done. PHOTO: Scott Serfas&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The flakes are dropping at well over an inch an hour. It seems foolish to go out under such conditions, but you only come here once I think as we unload the snowmobiles with former-Sledneck-turned-guide Jeremy Hanke. Jeremy has sent jumps and cliffs on his snowmobile that rivals what our crew would attempt on a board. We\\u2019re nervous and excited and rip off into the storm anyway. It turns out to be an aggressive day of \\u2019neckin\\u2019, digging, and seeking in foggy, vertigo conditions and sled-swallowing snow.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n\\u201cThis is the deepest snow I\\u2019ve ever sledded in,\\u201d E-Jack laughs.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cYeah, Jeremy, is this almost too deep for snowmobiling?\\u201d Danny asks.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cYeah, we\\u2019re pretty close to it.\\u201d Jeremy replies. After a long day of searching for spots we return by night\\u2014cold, wet, exhausted, and stoked.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tits Deep&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000173172\\\" style=\\\"width: 600px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-medium wp-image-1000173172\\\" title=\\\"12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-600x400.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"400\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-90x60.jpg 90w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/12_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS.jpg 1000w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;This zone at Island Lake is called Amber&amp;#8217;s Patch. It&amp;#8217;s a long story and Craig Kelly was involved. That&amp;#8217;s all we&amp;#8217;re saying. PHOTO: Andy Wright&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Our guide Al at Eagle Pass peps us as we head out of the staging room and onto the cold heli pad: \\u201cNothin\\u2019 but blower white up dar, tits deep!\\u201d he says in a thick French-Canadian accent. He\\u2019s right. It\\u2019s literally that deep. The day of heli riding is insane and enough for &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/jack-mitrani\\/?linktext=Jack%20Mitrani\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Jack Mitrani&lt;\\/a&gt;\\u2019s grin to stretch even farther than normal. \\u201cThat\\u2019s the deepest pow I\\u2019ve ever ridden,\\u201d Jack says. \\u201cThat really changes the whole snowboard game for me.\\u201d I feel better knowing it isn\\u2019t just me.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI continue the tour down the Trans Canada Highway 95 to Island Lake Lodge with monstrous peaks on the horizon. There I hear similar, animated tales when I join up with &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/eero-niemela\\/?linktext=Eero%20Niemela%20%20\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Eero Niemela &lt;\\/a&gt;and &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/dcp\\/?linktext=DCP\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;DCP&lt;\\/a&gt; who are frothing at the nonstop snow. They\\u2019d been chowing face loads of the stuff with cat laps. Here, six hours south of Revy, the conditions are still prime\\u2014it\\u2019s almost inescapable.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nThen the unthinkable happens\\u2014the clouds become thick\\u2014the weather warms, and all that was good is gone in the rip and rumble of avalanches. I try to savor the last bit with laps at Fernie Alpine Resort the next day, but it\\u2019s closed from the conditions too. Instead, I bide time with longtime photographer &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/mark-gallup\\/?linktext=Mark%20Gallup\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Mark Gallup&lt;\\/a&gt;. He takes me in and tells stories of when he and &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/craig-kelly\\/?linktext=Craig%20Kelly%20%20\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Craig Kelly &lt;\\/a&gt;used to explore this area, the inspiration they found here, and the magnetism of frozen peaks. The more we talk, the more I feel the pull too. I have to continue; I have to return North where it has stayed cold.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Back in Revelstoke, &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/austin-smith\\/?linktext=Austin%20Smith\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Austin Smith&lt;\\/a&gt; picks me up in his diesel flatbed. It\\u2019s late afternoon and we stop for gas and directions before heading farther north into the unknown. The drive wears on and the flakes become bigger and the road narrower. Soon the blinding snow has shrunk the passage to a one way of white. We keep pushing on, unsure if we came the right way, then the road ends and the destination appears\\u2014the warm CMH heli lodge deep in the Monashees.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/curtis-ciszek\\/?linktext=Curtis%20Ciszek\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Curtis Ciszek&lt;\\/a&gt; joins us now as the game of weather roulette begins. On no fly days we find ways to pass the time. We play a mindless game of &lt;em&gt;nagel&lt;\\/em&gt; (smashing headless nails into a stump with a pointed hammer). We rack up a bar bill. We stretch, boulder, read, eat\\u2014basically do anything to keep active and away from dwelling on riding or weather.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n\\u201cWe &lt;em&gt;really&lt;\\/em&gt; need to work on getting that heli budget, seriously, [Travis] Rice is on to something.\\u201d &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/tag\\/curtis-ciszek\\/?linktext=Curtis%20Ciszek\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Curtis Ciszek&lt;\\/a&gt; jokes in the lounge as we all stare out into the flakes and fog.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nWhen the weather finally lifts, the riding is on point. It\\u2019s the deepest yet and strewn with rollers galore. We find there\\u2019re over 300 \\u201cruns\\u201d here. We\\u2019ll be lucky if we tackle 20. Repeated pow days begin to run together, but the last day stands out\\u2014more new snow, stable conditions. Austin takes down arguably the largest pillow line I\\u2019ve ever seen, a five stack that\\u2019s well over 100 feet tall.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n\\u201cI\\u2019ve had some powder days before, but this\\u2014this is unreal,\\u201d Austin says as he plops down in the snow. \\u201cThis is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;\\/em&gt; best day of snowboarding I have ever had, hands down.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_1000173178\\\" style=\\\"width: 600px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-medium wp-image-1000173178\\\" title=\\\"06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-600x396.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"396\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-600x396.jpg 600w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS-90x60.jpg 90w, http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/442\\/files\\/2012\\/02\\/06_BC_Powder_Highway_TWS.jpg 1000w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Boning is always the best when there&amp;#8217;s lots of pillows around. Curtiz Ciszek knows this all too well. Monashees. PHOTO: Nick Hamilton&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cYeah, this is the best trip &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;\\/em&gt;,\\u201d Curtis affirms.&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nAnd you know what? They\\u2019re 100-percent right. There is no other way to describe it. Greatest, finest, raddest\\u2014they all get the point across, but really, it is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;\\/em&gt; best. Standing at the bottom of a run, after the biggest pillows, in the deepest, lightest snow imaginable, with some of your best friends and a big bird ready to take you right back up\\u2014it\\u2019s a place I\\u2019ve always imagined. And as we pile back into the heli, the strangest full feeling envelops me. The trees blur into toothpicks as we fly down the valley beneath the fog. A lone moose wades by the shore near the lodge. Amid the whirr and buzz of the turbine I relish this magical place I\\u2019ve never reached before. I could die now. I could never snowboard again. And I\\u2019d be completely happy.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want to plan your own path to powder trip? We tell you how, just head to the next page!&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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