Source For Sports VIP Ski Sale

All members of the UWO Ski Club have been invited by the Ski Shop at Source For Sports London to participate in their annual VIP Ski Sale. Beginning on Tuesday, November 7th, and continuing on the nights of the 8th and 9th, the store (and club sponsor) will be holding a massive kick-off sales event where participants can: preview the latest gear from Salomon, Rossignol, Elan, Lange, Nordica, Head, Atomic, Dynastar, Volkl, Roxy and K2 (among others); have their questions answered directly by manufacturer representatives; receive special gifts such as backpacks and bags with qualifying purchases, and enter a draw to win a free trip to the fabulous Banff trio of Lake Louise, Mount Norquay, and Sunshine Village. (more…)

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Heading West This Winter?

If so you may want to take a look into doing some backcountry skiing with Big Red Cats. Operated by Western alumni Paula Gaul, Big Red Cats provides professionally guided snow cat powder skiing (or boarding) in the region surrounding Red Mountain, which itself is near the city of Rossland, BC.

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Teaser for the Teaser

I suppose that it isn’t particularly shocking that there’s been a dearth of skiing-related news to report in the middle of August; well aside from head-scratching reports of Lebanese ski tours suffering from a surprising lack of clientele and someone, apparently unaware of global warming and its soggy implications, buying Intrawest for a cool $2.8 billion USD — or the equivalent of about 47,000,000 lift tickets. However, sensing the onslaught of midsummer malaise, the ski film industry has unleashed their latest promotional trailers to remind us all of what we’d do if we had unlimited money, a nice tan, and a helicopter… that’s right, make movies.

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