Sawback Alpine Adventures

Join us on “Ski and Sail” on board the historic Noorderlicht , impressive 150-foot two-mast schooners steeped in more than a century of maritime stories. ⛵ Experience Fjords and Glaciers of Northern Norway with experienced Mountain Guides. 🇳🇴☀️⛷️ 📍Ski in the coastal mountains of the Lyngen Alps, dropping anchor in the fjords that fringe this spectacular coastline. ✅ Explore the rugged coastline of Northern Norway, among the fjords and glaciated peaks that makes this region so famous. ✅ Experience Norwegian culture and traditions. Northern Norway has been home to the Norse and indigenous Samí people for thousands of years. Archaeological records indicate that Tromsø has been inhabited for over 9,000 years! ✅And of course there is the wildlife. We’ll keep a sharp eye out for puffins, sea eagles, walrus, arctic foxes, and even muskoxen. And it’s not uncommon to share a ski run with a herd of galloping miniature reindeer! 👉 Visit Sawback.com/norway to Join us for for a true Nordic trip of a lifetime! #ArcticAdventure #BackcountrySkiing #UnforgettableExperience #AdventureAwaits #SkiTouring #skiandsail

Join us on “Ski and Sail” on board the historic Noorderlicht , impressive 150-foot two-mast schooners steeped in more than a century of maritime stories. ⛵ Experience Fjords and Glaciers of Northern Norway with experienced Mountain Guides. 🇳🇴☀️⛷️ 📍Ski in the coastal mountains of the Lyngen Alps, dropping anchor in the fjords that fringe this spectacular coastline. ✅ Explore the rugged coastline of Northern Norway, among the fjords and glaciated peaks that makes this region so famous. ✅ Experience Norwegian culture and traditions. Northern Norway has been home to the Norse and indigenous Samí people for thousands of years. Archaeological records indicate that Tromsø has been inhabited for over 9,000 years! ✅And of course there is the wildlife. We’ll keep a sharp eye out for puffins, sea eagles, walrus, arctic foxes, and even muskoxen. And it’s not uncommon to share a ski run with a herd of galloping miniature reindeer! 👉 Visit Sawback.com/norway to Join us for for a true Nordic trip of a lifetime! #ArcticAdventure #BackcountrySkiing #UnforgettableExperience #AdventureAwaits #SkiTouring #skiandsail

😁Burnie Glacier Chalet is Canada’s Northernmost Ski Lodge and Canada’s best kept secret. Ski tour surrounding peaks with experienced Mountain Guides from the comfort of this beautiful timer frame lodge renovated and expanded in 2022. 📍Escape the crowds to find fresh tracks down untouched ski runs in spectacular rugged alpine terrain. From gentle glacier runs and steep tree runs to incredible ski mountaineering trips high into the alpine. ✅Experience the feeling of wind on your face and the untouched wilderness of Northern British Columbia with spectacular views of the towering Hut Peak, Burnie Glacier, Solitaire Ski Peaks and Lakehead Peak. ⛷️☀️🇨🇦 ✅ Burnie Glacier Chalet is perfectly situated for ski touring below the Burnie and Solitaire Glaciers and offers quick access to 1400 m (4500 foot) glacier runs that rise directly from the Chalet. Most of the runs ski right back to the chalet with no uphill travel at the end of the day to keep the feeling of stoke high as you return to a warm meal. 🥘 👉 Visit https://sawback.com/burnie to grab your spot on this remote backcountry ski trip of a lifetime! #burnieglacier #backcountryskiing #skimountaineering #skitouring #UnforgettableExperience #AdventureAwaits

I love this place! Here's a few clips from this past week in Svalbard . . . #svalbard #skisvalbard #skiandsail #skiandsailsvalbard #barentsburg #Longyearbyen #prinskarlsforland #sawbackalpine #bergführer #acmg #ifmga #skitouren #skitouring #earnyourturns

Today near the Lyngen Peninsula. Pretty much a perfect day.

Rockies pow skiing today #betterthanexpected . . . #betterthanexpected #sawbackalpine #bergführer #mountainguide #skiguide #acmg #ifmga #skitouren #skitouring #earnyourturns #sawbackalpine

Happy New Year! Greeting the first day of 2024 with a ski out from Talus Lodge yesterday morning. Here's Gaby Gnar shredding the trees into Mitchell Ck. So fun watching these kids so comfortable in this environment they've grown up in. . . . #betterthanexpected #sawbackalpine #bergführer #mountainguide #skiguide #acmg #ifmga #skitouren #skitouring #earnyourturns #sawbackalpine

A little known but awesome rapid on the Churchill River. About "Whither Wintego": This article details Saskatchewan’s first environmental impact assessment, which took place in the 1970s over a proposed dam on the Churchill River at the Wintego Rapids. The Wintego Dam, which would have been the largest hydroelectric dam in the province at the time, was controversial because of the environmental repercussions and impacts on the local Indigenous communities, particularly the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. We show that the Blakeney NDP government did not initially intend to create a robust environmental impact assessment, and then explain how and why such an assessment was ultimately undertaken. Using archival material that was previously unavailable, the article recounts the governmental study, the Indigenous-led studies (after they rejected the governmental process), and the final Board of Inquiry report. The Wintego saga should be understood within the context of a growing resistance to northern development projects whose benefits accrued mostly to the southern white population. Ultimately, the Blakeney government decided not to build Wintego because of the economic, environmental, and social impacts, as well as concerns about unsettled treaty claims. This could be considered the first attempt – even before the Berger Inquiry – by a provincial government to fully assess the impacts of a natural resource project before final approval, and it was the earliest incorporation of Indigenous-led studies into the assessment process.

Bear on my bike ride yesterday