With 65cm of snow overnight, Mount Washington on Vancouver Island is now claiming the deepest natural snow pack in North America.

Much of the mountain’s best back side terrain remained closed while the snow crew took care of avalanche hazards on Friday, which means the weekend should be a blast. However, officials are warning skiers and snowboarders to stay sane.

“With such a huge amount of fresh snow on the Mountain, it is important to stay in bounds unless you are prepared for self-rescue,” says a Mount Washington official. “[This] includes having the proper avalanche gear (beacon, probe, shovel) and more importantly know how to use them.”

Revelstoke Mountain Resort is hosting the Canadian Freeskiing Championships as we speak.

As part of the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour, the event features over $100K in cash money up for grabs to the best of the nearly 150 two-plankers competing from around the world.

And this competition is no shade of green, with steep, cliff-laced terrain and judges look for the perfect combination of technique, aggressiveness, control, and no doubt speed. In a sikiing event like this, no two runs ever the same.

Get up to Revelstoke and check it out. The big mountian show runs to Jan 10.  

This is so sweet. A big thanks to the Globe and Mail for knowing how to shovel it like no other.

Figure out how to straight rip snow here.