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Hope you guys don't mind a little canadian TR....i know a few will be stoked on my day....

 

So my day starts with house work...after a long weekend my GF is on me to clean up so i do...around noon I get a call...free heli drop on Currie...What? it turns out a friend is training so we get a free ride. So were off for 1pm departure.

 

were going to the top

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we arrive and Guy(the boss) says no training today ill still take you up though. And Ill take some pictures off you guys when i drop you off. i was seriously dazed at this point free heli and the pilot is going to take pictures of us? we say isnt that sketchy..he says "i can walk and chew gum too'

 

nice shot Guy

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Guy filming us as I take his picture

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this is part of our run

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dave drops in first

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altenate view

http://www.pieandchips.com/currie_pics/dave_main.jpg

 

my friend eric and another of me further down

http://www.pieandchips.com/currie_pics/eric_main.jpg

 

http://www.pieandchips.com/currie_pics/mellow_traverse.jpg

 

so we venture around and d o some hikes and ride some pillows, while we were hiking we found the dream line

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the we found this but this is for another day

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a couple pics from the heli

http://www.pieandchips.com/currie_pics/dave_point.jpg

 

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and one last video clip curtosy of Guy the pilot!

right click and save probly works best...6megs

http://www.pieandchips.com/currie_pics/MVI_7948.AVI

 

hope your not too sick of Canada yet....

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And all for FREE!! eek.gif eek.gif WOW! youa re one lucky chap!! Looks like you had an amazing afternoon, its always the unplanned off the cuff spontaneous days that turn out the best!! Awsome pics and drooling stuff!!

 

Hard to beat I would say!

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thanks....I should add it wasnt all peaches and pow....the thing about currie is theres only one way out and it happens to be down a slide path, sometimes its mellow, sometimes like yesterday it is hell. At one point it bottle necks for about 200 feet at about 10 feet wide. yesterday it was about 10cm on ice, basically you slide on your ass out of control for the entire time over frozen earth and ice and some rocks, grabbing branches to slow you down. It sucked i was so unimpressed by the time I got to the bottom.

 

Then its merges with the main slide path which has 10 foot walls of ice on the side and the gut full of debris, postho;eing nightmare. and a comedy of disasters trying to scale the wall.

 

Then there a 1 km trail thats nearly covered with over grown brush, getting slapped in the face every ten feet was not fun for over 30 minutes with no goggles because it was dark at this point.

 

it took a couple beers to remember the fun i had before the exit.

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