Really appreciate you Andy! Also... What a beautiful quote dude. Sounds like something out of the mouth of ski bum in a 90's film with a doobie in hand.
I live in Calgary and ski Fernie every chance I get. I've been going there 25 years and it never gets old. I always find something new to ski or a different combo top to bottom as the options are seeming infinite. I've had 9 of the 10 best ski days of my life at Fernie. Biggest downside is the weather can be bad (i.e. warm up) causing poor conditions, but usually doesn't take long to improve because of the amount of snowfall. My best advice, if the skiing is bad in one bowl, try another as the conditions can vary dramatically. You can almost always find good conditions somewhere.
@@riseandalpine What he said. The temperatures differ from bowl to bowl. Some get more sun, etc...Also compared to Castle it's not windy, but it gets pretty windy there too. I've slow-mo'ed it down Falling star into stiff wind. Hood up, kinda stuff.
definitely agree but I don't seem to mind slow lifts as much compared to others, I think they're great because they keep the crowds down since no one wants to go on them
I’m lucky to have family in pincher creek because I get to ski fernie with them every year, and have a free place to stay. Love the mountain grew up skiing it
I've never skiied Fernie, but I remember it being promoted as one of the 4 B.C. Rockies ski destinations in ski magazines of the early-mid 80s. I've heard it has some of the best snowfall of any resort (back then) and now I'm hearing other positive things about it. There must be a reason I love these downhill ski resorts reviews from a fellow greater Vanouverite.
Took a trip to Fernie two seasons ago, absolutely loved it. It’s a skier’s mountain. Had a beer with the head ski patrol in The Griz. Ended up taking a day to check out Castle Mountain per his recommendation. Can’t recommend it enough!
Lift system is very important and interesting. Keep talking about it please. I like to ski terrain the same way you do. A steep chute up top leads to some glades that then dumps you onto a blue groomer back to a D-line 6 pack chair that travels up hill at 16 mph (about 25 kmh). Pound out that vert.
I skied a 3 ft powder day that was an out of body experience at Fernie and then the next time I cancelled my trip due to the rain/ice accumulation there.great mountain when the snow is good.
loving these reviews man! if you end up on Mt Cain this season be sure to do as much back country touring as possible. haven't done any of it myself but looking off the peak of the resort into the back country is incredible
It's on the hit list! Last years snow was rough so I couldn't rationalize the ferry cost to the island but I really want to check it out this season! Slack country looks epic.
@@riseandalpine I will, one day! Thank you for great videos and hard work! (Great content programming this off-season, too!! It’s what I would have done as well. Title/thumbnail etc)
Lift info is important, especially considering that we are technically spending most of our time on them. Definitely have felt the regret of of landing on a slow lift on a pow day, so knowing some optimal lift circuits would be nice.
Thanks Jean! This channel is kind of like my own little TV show in a way. I always used to dream of being a host on one of those classic fishing channels. Just go out and fish new places and talk about stuff. Super fun I'm doing it for a sport I like even more than fishing.
Excited to go to Fernie for the first time this year with family... your videos are a really helpful orientation. You mention about passes that they're on Mountain Collective, but they aren't listed on MC's own site.
Fernie should be a blast! I might have messed up and meant RCR. Sorry! I tend to know more about the skiing part of things and not the logistics. Always best to double check.
I am kind of a lift nerd so my views of the lift overview are great! I don't think that many people that care about lifts but me and my buds really care about resorts we go to having gondolas or bubble lifts (mainly because there's only one bubble lift in PA 😢) Anyways as always a great review and getting stoked for ski season!
I first skied there when it was just 2 t-bars and just one bowl ("The Bowl"). Cedar was unserviced and a long ski out; Currie was a full-day traverse and hike out. Incredible powder on a fantastic mountain.
I love Fernie! From my home in south Calgary it’s only an extra 45 minutes to Fernie then to Louise. You are being to kind about the lift infrastructure. It sucks. Why? It’s owned by RCR who would rather lose business than upgrade the lifts. I wouldn’t be caught dead at Fernie on a Weekend. I hear it’s insane. The staff are awesome, the runs are great, and on a weekday it’s heaven. I was lucky enough to get 3 runs on Polar Peak last time we went and it was so much fun. It is a safety reason why it’s only open around 20 times a year. The winds can be crazy up there and if cloudy you could go off a cliff really easy. If Fernie had the lifts that say Marmot Basin in Jasper has it would be amazing. Great video!
Always love the locals perspective! I'm sure the more and more you go to Fernie, the more you get tired with the lift setups. Also interesting to hear that the lineups can be bad on weekends!
How's that truck running, buddeh? Solid review. 20+ days at Fern last year. Lots of great trees. Good patios. Lost Boys at the top of Timber, serves in frosty mugs. 100% been an epic 2 years splitting home hill advantage between Fernie & Castle. Bucket list years for sure. Steep learning curve for a gnoobz. The one negative - Patchy weather. Up & down warm & cold cycles. You scored some decent ski days, for a well below average snow year, boss-man. Lots of grooming equipment issues last season, as well. Few weeks last year big portions of the upper mountain went ungroomed for long stretches, and it was getting gnarly with a capital G. Falling Star is awesome to just open up that throttle and swing out giant arcs, tho. So many good ridge runs, and open bowls, usually scary deep. Don't fall off your paddle board... Also, terrain does close when it snows heavy. There is what they call the "triangle" which is from Bear chair, picture a triangle down wards to the bowl edges on either side of Bear. That is all that is open immediately after a dump, so that mid section gets tracked out & congested quick. Timber usually opens up soon after, too. Ropes drop only after they shoot, tho. Wifekin and I happened upon a good handful of "mini-lanches" all over that damned place. Fun Fact - Fernie's dynamite budget is highest of Canadian resorts. They have 4 Ava-launchers. It is a significant amount of avalanche prone terrain to control on high tides. When you're there next day or 2 is when ropes drop, and rooster tails bloom.
Love all the local intel. I was absolutely awe struck imagining patrollers fire cannons at the snow wall. I even saw patrol cuts on top of the wall which was freaking me out... Maybe it was a pinwheel, maybe it was the beers, but I'm pretty certain I saw ski tracks cut down the wall. Do they rope up and stand on top of it?
@@riseandalpine Yup, and heli bomb where the cannoons can't _penetrate._ And yah, I've also witnessed some tracks down from "how the f" territory. That elephant's head & the Lizard headwall are really something to behold getting off each respective chair...Love watching the trains roll through the valley from up top. First time we skied there we stayed in te Lizard lodge, and awoke to the sound of dynamite. Needless to say that was when the wifey got giddy, and I realized we weren't in Kansas no mo'...Crazy to think we live in bounds of that nonsense, now...We still pinch ourselves on the daily.
@@riseandalpine ruclips.net/video/BC7Z_NIImAI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/i-vGogzOw00/видео.html Often times vis is the issue. Shots are at fixed points.
Wonderful watch. Fernie really is a solid option for outsiders like myself. Staying clear of Whistler is evident. I have decided on Panorama for my 🇨🇦Canada ski trip in a the coming years; interested now in seeing your views on the resort in a review like this one.
100% care about lift infrastructure at resorts. Makes a huge difference on experience. And there's always context, like sometimes slow lifts are justified and sometimes they're experience ruining
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Fernie is the Canadian equivalent of kirkwood lmao, all the terrain is spread out off the top of a long ridge and its pretty hidden compared to other cali resorts
Hey James, thanks for doing these reviews! Love your vids. We're (2 advanced skiers) planning a powder highway trip next Feb and are debating between 2 days of Revy vs 2 day of Fernie, any advice? PS please do keep including lifts in your reviews, the more info the better. Keep it up bro!
Revy has more consistent snowfall and better tree skiing imo. Revy is also steeper but has hella tree wells. Fernie powder days are legendary but it gets dry between each storm cycle and gets rained on a lot more. Both are great options in general however revy is the way to go imo!
So with your penchant for tree skiing, do you have any troubles with 'Tree wells' ? Being from Australia i did not know about them. I recently saw a video of some being rescued from one and it looked terrifying 😳. P.S. keep up the lift info, its a very important part of skiing.
I never have issues with tree wells but it is good to know the snowpack, be aware and ski with buddies. The danger is elevated on big storm weeks but is much less of a concern when the snow is harder packed. Best thing you can do is not fall. Some mountains and areas are much worse than others depending on the type of tree. Momentum is your friend and if you're going to stop and stand in the trees, best to do it away from a well.
I remember when Fernie was just the Lizard Bowl and Cedar Bowl. Siberia, Timber, Curry, and another bowl on the other side of Cedar (Can't remember the name), were all very accessible out of bounds skiing!
Picture for a moment, if you will, absolutely pinning it down the Lizard bowl, on a set of 225's... Not that chill, until you slide those planks into the Griz bar for a chilly one...
This might be a stupid question but why are there tires in the first frame of the video? also I really like how you respond to every comment on your channel even though you're popular.
Those tires are put in that chute entrance to save your skis at low tide. It's a problem spot for coverage, but a sick zone to ski, so they put some rubber there for the scrapies...
Question about Corner Pocket(?) at Ferne, the run with the tires. Could you ski over the tires? Lol. Probably a crazy question. I think maybe the camera doesn’t fully capture the steepness, and it looks like there’s a drop right after you get past the tires. But I was wondering.
You could absolutely ski down the right or left side and straightline. It was marginal snow when I was there so I decided not to attempt with the ice. The tires stop your skis better than you think, so skiing over them could result in an eject, but.. I think you would have 50/50 odds if you leaned back and didn't clip an edge.
@@riseandalpine face lift was a Poma in the Lizard Bowl, acces from the Bear express to the bottom of the Wall of the bowl . The ski patrol cabin is located where the bullwheel of the machine was back in the days. Also, a metal ladder was bolted on the Wall of the bowl for the bravest of us for an inbeliveable pow experience but it turned out to be deadly for some... Anyways, Fernie is my Happy Place on Earth since 1997. Let it snow
Polar Peak - avalanches or ICE. Ice is where I got in trouble one day and was on my keester pretty much the whole way down. Nevertheless, bang-for-the-buck, Fernie's a gem.
My man.
This our home mountain. Great review. Keep up the stellar content. You're crushing it. Next time reach out to shred some laps.
Fernie looks like a fantastic place to live and ski. Wait isn't that the same thing, living and skiing? lol
Really appreciate you Andy! Also... What a beautiful quote dude. Sounds like something out of the mouth of ski bum in a 90's film with a doobie in hand.
Definitely keep reviewing the lift and layout. Me and my 7yo little ripper love your stuff man!
Glad you find it helpful. Say hi to the little ripper from me. So amazing having a sport like skiing to do with your kid!
I'm 14 and born & raised in Fernie- already hyped for the season!
Fernie is such a fun spot to be! Growing up there I bet you're an awesome skier already.
Please keep the lift info in your reviews, it really helps people to understand how the uphill capacity is. Great review!
Will do! Appreciate hearing that you enjoy it being included.
I live in Calgary and ski Fernie every chance I get. I've been going there 25 years and it never gets old. I always find something new to ski or a different combo top to bottom as the options are seeming infinite. I've had 9 of the 10 best ski days of my life at Fernie. Biggest downside is the weather can be bad (i.e. warm up) causing poor conditions, but usually doesn't take long to improve because of the amount of snowfall. My best advice, if the skiing is bad in one bowl, try another as the conditions can vary dramatically. You can almost always find good conditions somewhere.
Killer advice! If mountains are that big with that many aspects, there's always good snow somewhere!
@@riseandalpine What he said. The temperatures differ from bowl to bowl. Some get more sun, etc...Also compared to Castle it's not windy, but it gets pretty windy there too. I've slow-mo'ed it down Falling star into stiff wind. Hood up, kinda stuff.
You’re pumping out these reviews man, keep up the hard work loving it. Getting stoked for the season
Gotta get em' all out before the new skiing starts again. Glad this is getting you jazzed for the winter.
Fernie is a special place. Some of the best tree skiing in country and the nicest, friendliest people.
I totally agree!
Finally booked my first trip up to Fernie after trying to get out for years… so stoked
Unreal!!! Going to be bonkers this year.
My favourite. There are places I would love to go ski but I am so glad Fernie is close enough for day trips for me.
Such a sick spot to be able to day rip!
Trust me…we care about the lift system. It’s really important. Keep talking about em. WHO DOESN’T WANNA HEAR ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE?!?!
definitely agree but I don't seem to mind slow lifts as much compared to others, I think they're great because they keep the crowds down since no one wants to go on them
Thanks for chiming in. I'll keep the lift portion for sure!
I’m lucky to have family in pincher creek because I get to ski fernie with them every year, and have a free place to stay. Love the mountain grew up skiing it
That's sick!
I've never skiied Fernie, but I remember it being promoted as one of the 4 B.C. Rockies ski destinations in ski magazines of the early-mid 80s. I've heard it has some of the best snowfall of any resort (back then) and now I'm hearing other positive things about it. There must be a reason I love these downhill ski resorts reviews from a fellow greater Vanouverite.
Fernie absolutely lives up to the hype! Stoked you're enjoying the reviews!
Big time care about the lift infrastructure!!! The lift / shuttle situation with nelson + WW is why im writing you from the stoke!
Roger that! WH20 rocks
Took a trip to Fernie two seasons ago, absolutely loved it. It’s a skier’s mountain. Had a beer with the head ski patrol in The Griz. Ended up taking a day to check out Castle Mountain per his recommendation. Can’t recommend it enough!
Castle and Fernie is a rockstar combo eh!
Shaking in my (ski) boots I cannot WAIT for ski season to start!! Great video man
I've been sleeping in my ski boots to ensure my shins are ready for winter LOL
Lift system is very important and interesting. Keep talking about it please. I like to ski terrain the same way you do. A steep chute up top leads to some glades that then dumps you onto a blue groomer back to a D-line 6 pack chair that travels up hill at 16 mph (about 25 kmh). Pound out that vert.
Glad you like to hear about it. Even more glad you like to session mountains like I do. Sounds like we would be good ski partners.
I skied a 3 ft powder day that was an out of body experience at Fernie and then the next time I cancelled my trip due to the rain/ice accumulation there.great mountain when the snow is good.
3 FEET!!!! That's nutty. JEALOUS dude.
loving these reviews man! if you end up on Mt Cain this season be sure to do as much back country touring as possible. haven't done any of it myself but looking off the peak of the resort into the back country is incredible
Cant wait for the Whislter review
Did one last season! Check er' out here ruclips.net/video/aNyVStrI_BI/видео.html
You really should visit the island sometime. Mount Cain is an absolute hidden gem.
I watched a short film on Cain, and the place looks legit AF.
Edit: it's called Frozen in Time and is on RUclips.
It's on the hit list! Last years snow was rough so I couldn't rationalize the ferry cost to the island but I really want to check it out this season! Slack country looks epic.
We really care about the lift system. Please keep going!
Will do!
Great review pretty much spot on, I ran ski improvement camps at Ferine for seven seasons. Great people ...
Glad you think I did an okay job as a non-local. 7 years up there! What great memories. I'm sure ya miss it.
as a local- thanks!
Keep it coming!! Great footage like this help people where to go. In my next ski trip, I’m considering sunshine, Fernie and one more.
Glad you're digging them. To be honest, there are really no bad choices. BC is so god dang good!
@@riseandalpine I will, one day! Thank you for great videos and hard work! (Great content programming this off-season, too!! It’s what I would have done as well. Title/thumbnail etc)
Lift info is important, especially considering that we are technically spending most of our time on them. Definitely have felt the regret of of landing on a slow lift on a pow day, so knowing some optimal lift circuits would be nice.
Optimal lift circuits are key! Since I'm not a local at these resorts I've got no clue about optimal lift circuits on the mega pow and busy days
On my bucket list for next year! I am very exicted for this ski season best one yet hopefully!
Should be a sick year with the Nina rolling in!
Love the lifts. Got to know how to get around ! Ski fast burn ass
Wicked! Gonna keep ranting about the lifts!
Great review. I could see you on real TV commenting on everything about ski/montain, dos and don't....
Thanks Jean! This channel is kind of like my own little TV show in a way. I always used to dream of being a host on one of those classic fishing channels. Just go out and fish new places and talk about stuff. Super fun I'm doing it for a sport I like even more than fishing.
Excited to go to Fernie for the first time this year with family... your videos are a really helpful orientation. You mention about passes that they're on Mountain Collective, but they aren't listed on MC's own site.
Fernie should be a blast! I might have messed up and meant RCR. Sorry! I tend to know more about the skiing part of things and not the logistics. Always best to double check.
I am kind of a lift nerd so my views of the lift overview are great! I don't think that many people that care about lifts but me and my buds really care about resorts we go to having gondolas or bubble lifts (mainly because there's only one bubble lift in PA 😢)
Anyways as always a great review and getting stoked for ski season!
Bubble lifts are pretty comfy on the stormy days and provide a few other benefits as well......
Love the out-season reviews it keeps the channel alive!😊
Doing what we can and getting stoked for ski season!
Would love to see you come to some of the best mountains in the U.S, these reviews are great!
US trips are 100% on then radar this season. Super stoked.
@@riseandalpine Awesome, would love to see you shred some of my home mountains in Tahoe
I first skied there when it was just 2 t-bars and just one bowl ("The Bowl"). Cedar was unserviced and a long ski out; Currie was a full-day traverse and hike out. Incredible powder on a fantastic mountain.
So cool that you've seen all these places develop. Snow must have been endless if you were willing to work for it back then.
I love Fernie! From my home in south Calgary it’s only an extra 45 minutes to Fernie then to Louise. You are being to kind about the lift infrastructure. It sucks. Why? It’s owned by RCR who would rather lose business than upgrade the lifts. I wouldn’t be caught dead at Fernie on a Weekend. I hear it’s insane. The staff are awesome, the runs are great, and on a weekday it’s heaven. I was lucky enough to get 3 runs on Polar Peak last time we went and it was so much fun. It is a safety reason why it’s only open around 20 times a year. The winds can be crazy up there and if cloudy you could go off a cliff really easy. If Fernie had the lifts that say Marmot Basin in Jasper has it would be amazing. Great video!
Always love the locals perspective! I'm sure the more and more you go to Fernie, the more you get tired with the lift setups. Also interesting to hear that the lineups can be bad on weekends!
Banjo vibes for sure. I’d slip and slide, delicately of course.
Yeah - lifts are great info! Great reviews!
Sweet! I'll keep including them.
People also ski the Lizard headwall. There has been some pretty epic lines down there in the past.
That is sick!
Personally I appreciate the lift overview
Sick! Sound like were keeping it :)
How's that truck running, buddeh?
Solid review. 20+ days at Fern last year. Lots of great trees. Good patios. Lost Boys at the top of Timber, serves in frosty mugs. 100% been an epic 2 years splitting home hill advantage between Fernie & Castle. Bucket list years for sure. Steep learning curve for a gnoobz.
The one negative - Patchy weather. Up & down warm & cold cycles. You scored some decent ski days, for a well below average snow year, boss-man. Lots of grooming equipment issues last season, as well. Few weeks last year big portions of the upper mountain went ungroomed for long stretches, and it was getting gnarly with a capital G. Falling Star is awesome to just open up that throttle and swing out giant arcs, tho. So many good ridge runs, and open bowls, usually scary deep. Don't fall off your paddle board...
Also, terrain does close when it snows heavy. There is what they call the "triangle" which is from Bear chair, picture a triangle down wards to the bowl edges on either side of Bear. That is all that is open immediately after a dump, so that mid section gets tracked out & congested quick. Timber usually opens up soon after, too. Ropes drop only after they shoot, tho. Wifekin and I happened upon a good handful of "mini-lanches" all over that damned place.
Fun Fact - Fernie's dynamite budget is highest of Canadian resorts. They have 4 Ava-launchers. It is a significant amount of avalanche prone terrain to control on high tides. When you're there next day or 2 is when ropes drop, and rooster tails bloom.
Love all the local intel. I was absolutely awe struck imagining patrollers fire cannons at the snow wall. I even saw patrol cuts on top of the wall which was freaking me out... Maybe it was a pinwheel, maybe it was the beers, but I'm pretty certain I saw ski tracks cut down the wall. Do they rope up and stand on top of it?
@@riseandalpine Yup, and heli bomb where the cannoons can't _penetrate._ And yah, I've also witnessed some tracks down from "how the f" territory. That elephant's head & the Lizard headwall are really something to behold getting off each respective chair...Love watching the trains roll through the valley from up top. First time we skied there we stayed in te Lizard lodge, and awoke to the sound of dynamite. Needless to say that was when the wifey got giddy, and I realized we weren't in Kansas no mo'...Crazy to think we live in bounds of that nonsense, now...We still pinch ourselves on the daily.
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Often times vis is the issue. Shots are at fixed points.
Wonderful watch. Fernie really is a solid option for outsiders like myself. Staying clear of Whistler is evident.
I have decided on Panorama for my 🇨🇦Canada ski trip in a the coming years; interested now in seeing your views on the resort in a review like this one.
Sick! Panorama is GOAT. Video coming on it soon.
Go before March. Gets too warm earlier than other places that basically serve Calgary.
Great tip!
I definitely want to go to fernie one day, but this year i'm not gonna move too far from apex, maybe i'll go to baldy or big white
Baldy and BW are both wicked and not to far from you!
We care about the lift info for sure 😊
I'll keep it coming!
Definitely care about lifts, keep up the detailed opinions! 😎👏
I'll keep em' coming
100% care about lift infrastructure at resorts. Makes a huge difference on experience. And there's always context, like sometimes slow lifts are justified and sometimes they're experience ruining
For sure! I'll be sure to keep including it. Thanks!
We need more lifts
Never hurts. A bottom to top gondi would be ideal eh?
The lift system is an important part of the hill, Like you said better lifts more vert! Keep talking about them
Will keep including them!
hey man, i was just wondering what ski goggles you’ve got? just wondering cause i need new goggles desperately haha
I've been running Zeal goggles for the last year and really like them. I got a few discount codes if you want a hookup. Just fire me a DM on insta with your email address.
@@riseandalpine thanks!
Fernie is the Canadian equivalent of kirkwood lmao, all the terrain is spread out off the top of a long ridge and its pretty hidden compared to other cali resorts
I guess that means I'll enjoy Kirkwood eh
Hey James, thanks for doing these reviews! Love your vids. We're (2 advanced skiers) planning a powder highway trip next Feb and are debating between 2 days of Revy vs 2 day of Fernie, any advice? PS please do keep including lifts in your reviews, the more info the better. Keep it up bro!
Revy has more consistent snowfall and better tree skiing imo. Revy is also steeper but has hella tree wells. Fernie powder days are legendary but it gets dry between each storm cycle and gets rained on a lot more. Both are great options in general however revy is the way to go imo!
Both are going to be sick if you've never been, I'd toss a coin TBH.
Leave it in the hands of ULLR
If anything I'd like more about the lift infrastructure and resort flow
Wicked!
I’d recommend going to polar peak in march so it’s open
Good call!
So with your penchant for tree skiing, do you have any troubles with 'Tree wells' ?
Being from Australia i did not know about them. I recently saw a video of some being rescued from one and it looked terrifying 😳.
P.S. keep up the lift info, its a very important part of skiing.
I never have issues with tree wells but it is good to know the snowpack, be aware and ski with buddies. The danger is elevated on big storm weeks but is much less of a concern when the snow is harder packed. Best thing you can do is not fall. Some mountains and areas are much worse than others depending on the type of tree. Momentum is your friend and if you're going to stop and stand in the trees, best to do it away from a well.
Would you consider going south of the border and exploring WA, OR, and ID at some point?
100%
I don't really worry about chairs that much, as long as they get the job done i'm satisfied
Hell ya!
Fernie is divided into 2 sides - the old and the new. The old is Cedar and Lizard bowls. The new is Siberia, Timber, and Curry bowls.
I remember when Fernie was just the Lizard Bowl and Cedar Bowl. Siberia, Timber, Curry, and another bowl on the other side of Cedar (Can't remember the name), were all very accessible out of bounds skiing!
@@sycpup Fish Bowl is the out of bounds one next to Cedar. I'm guessing there was a hell of a lot less tourists back then 😉
@@Kthomasritchie Oh yeah! Never seen a lift line longer than a couple of minutes. I think the lift tickets were under 50 bucks, too.
Super cool! It must have been so chill back in the day.
Picture for a moment, if you will, absolutely pinning it down the Lizard bowl, on a set of 225's... Not that chill, until you slide those planks into the Griz bar for a chilly one...
This might be a stupid question but why are there tires in the first frame of the video? also I really like how you respond to every comment on your channel even though you're popular.
Those tires are put in that chute entrance to save your skis at low tide. It's a problem spot for coverage, but a sick zone to ski, so they put some rubber there for the scrapies...
It's a popular spot so can get scraped out and icy/rocky. The tires allow people to climb down when the conditions are unfavourable!
@@riseandalpine Thank you i never knew that!
@@BeetsByHometownBrew thank you!
Ha Ha Ha. " don't Fall " thats a good one😂
The most sound advice
Talk about the lifts! I care about the lifts!
I'll keep the lift talk coming!
Question about Corner Pocket(?) at Ferne, the run with the tires.
Could you ski over the tires? Lol. Probably a crazy question. I think maybe the camera doesn’t fully capture the steepness, and it looks like there’s a drop right after you get past the tires.
But I was wondering.
You could absolutely ski down the right or left side and straightline. It was marginal snow when I was there so I decided not to attempt with the ice. The tires stop your skis better than you think, so skiing over them could result in an eject, but.. I think you would have 50/50 odds if you leaned back and didn't clip an edge.
@@riseandalpine
Lol. I figured it was a dicey prospect, but my wacky side thought it seemed possible.
I need to know how to shred revy tho
Here's the review I made last season! ruclips.net/video/bs_JjJNZf9g/видео.html
I care about the lifts!
Awesome! Thanks for the input. I'll keep including them.
How about half an hour to an hour from ur house
Lucky guy
FIRST!
Yeeehawww
I miss the face lift at Fernie
Where was it?
@@riseandalpine face lift was a Poma in the Lizard Bowl, acces from the Bear express to the bottom of the Wall of the bowl . The ski patrol cabin is located where the bullwheel of the machine was back in the days. Also, a metal ladder was bolted on the Wall of the bowl for the bravest of us for an inbeliveable pow experience but it turned out to be deadly for some... Anyways, Fernie is my Happy Place on Earth since 1997. Let it snow
My school goes to Fernie every year and it’s absolutely awesome, but i wish they had a proper terrain park with jumps because they don’t.
RCR resorts has issues about liability.
@@BeetsByHometownBrew yeah i know, some dude on the chairlift who knew the owner told me the whole story about it and other stuff so
Really eh. I was wondering why the parks were so mellow at all the RCR resorts.
Fernie is terrible!!!!! Don't go.
I agree
Polar Peak - avalanches or ICE.
Ice is where I got in trouble one day and was on my keester pretty much the whole way down. Nevertheless, bang-for-the-buck, Fernie's a gem.
Ice up there would be gnarly. Glad your keester helped break your fall.
My man.
This our home mountain. Great review. Keep up the stellar content. You're crushing it. Next time reach out to shred some laps.