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@TommyJ, the popcorn shop does the most enormous pieces of popcorn I’ve ever seen. Puts the Odeon stuff in the UK to shame.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Orange200, yeah it reminded me of a flat donut rather than a pancake. I had banana on mine.
Tasted very deep fried.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Gaz_H, hope that you managed to avoid the national Canadian dish - can't remember it's name but it's truly disgusting! I travel Africa and the far East and nothing tops it for yuk.
As for the skiing I found LL the best, the back bowls, fluffy powder up to the thighs, little resistance.
There's a free bus up to the Banff Springs Hotel from Banff, worth a trip for taste of a magnificent baronial pile.
Stayed in Banff and found the buses to the ski areas good.
Bloody cold in January though!
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@narbs, just Googled the BeaverDog.
Looks like a sort of sausage roll.
Why was it a mistake?
It never had sweet pastry around that jumbo sausage did it? 
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@davidthornton, poutine?
I tried it but it was ‘a bit much’
Ok for the first few mouthfuls but the bowl was that big I couldn’t eat it all.
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Apparently you can now get a ‘poutail’ - a beavertail topped with poutine
I suspect they’ll have to rethink the name for marketing purposes
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I had one of my life's most memorable meals a the LL Relais/Chateau restaurants years ago. But the queues sound like they have not improved.
Beaver Tails........... to be avoided
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
@davidthornton, poutine?
I tried it but it was ‘a bit much’
Ok for the first few mouthfuls but the bowl was that big I couldn’t eat it all. |
Tssk. You'll not get back in the country with that attitude! 
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The true Canadian National dish is probably a Tim Hortons donut and coffee with double double... (2x cream and 2x sugar).
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Timbits!!!!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| TommyJ wrote: |
Apparently you can now get a ‘poutail’ - a beavertail topped with poutine
I suspect they’ll have to rethink the name for marketing purposes |
Yes a Poutail.... saw them on sale.... not my thing. My daughter had Poutine and didn't like it... too salty. I don't like cheese so....
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| sweaman22 wrote: |
| The true Canadian National dish is probably a Tim Hortons donut and coffee with double double... (2x cream and 2x sugar). |
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| TommyJ wrote: |
Apparently you can now get a ‘poutail’ - a beavertail topped with poutine
I suspect they’ll have to rethink the name for marketing purposes |
Ick.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| stuarth wrote: |
| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
@davidthornton, poutine?
I tried it but it was ‘a bit much’
Ok for the first few mouthfuls but the bowl was that big I couldn’t eat it all. |
Tssk. You'll not get back in the country with that attitude! |
Something to work on!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Gaz_H wrote: |
| TommyJ wrote: |
Apparently you can now get a ‘poutail’ - a beavertail topped with poutine
I suspect they’ll have to rethink the name for marketing purposes |
Yes a Poutail.... saw them on sale.... not my thing. My daughter had Poutine and didn't like it... too salty. I don't like cheese so.... |
I love cheese but yes, too salty. I think it varies from place to place mind. I’ve tried it 3 times in different places across 2 visits to Banff and one was better than the other 2. Still couldn’t get past half a bowl though.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Gaz_H, we were at Lake Louise today- no queues to speak of, pretty much normal service resumed. I’ve got to be honest- we try and time our stay to miss Family Day weekend- we find it quietens down after that until Easter and the temps are a bit less brutal (HA! to that this year). We also don’t ski on Saturday or Sunday if we can avoid it, but we have a season pass and are here for extended periods every year so we can be flexible.
The cold has improved/ it was minus 7 at the base (I actually felt warm) and about minus 14 up top. Sunny some of the time/ so all in all the best day we’ve had since we arrived last week.
The one thing I would add to your comments is the approach to grooming- there is a daily grooming report published which shows what was groomed that day, one or two days ago or longer than three.
For example, at LL today the Men’s Downhill, Meadowlark and Lake Lindsay’s Way (Women’s Downhill now renamed) were all pretty bumpy. All are single blacks and are often groomed for carving, but not always. Not proper moguls, but bumpy. It’s a slightly different approach and the expectation is for more ungroomed pistes generally outside the blues.
Other than that it’s a good summary of the set up.
Glad you had a good time with the family. (And in all these years we’ve never had a Beaver Tail, but I agree, the name is slightly off-putting  )
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Hi @lynnecha, maybe we’ll see you there one year! I’m trying to persuade elder daughter for Easter next year but it’s her finals year, we’ll see.
Beaver tails are, as @VolklAttivaS5 says, basically a flattened donut, with topping of your choice. So if you’re not a donut fan, then donut try one (badum tish…)
As for those of you talking about beaver dogs - stop it right now, Banff has always been my favourite ski resort and you are trashing my hopes and dreams, stop it now I say!
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As many layers as required? I hesitate to write it as someone will google it and prove me wrong, but it's usually somewhere between minus 10 and minus 20-ish when I'm riding in interior BC/Ab... that's not terribly cold, but you don't want exposed skin for example. They have warming huts for a reason. In the minus 20s, you don't want over-tight boots, some people use boot heaters, but just wiggling your toes helps keep the blood flowing. If it's cold, maybe you'll want to select your lifts more carefully. In Finland the slopes are short and it's common for people to take one run, then warm up, then repeat until bored.
Take your normal stuff. If you find you're under-equipped, you can buy more stuff there and you'll know what you want and why.
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Yeah I think I’ll probably end up doing that.
Some of my base layers are getting very old and holey so could do with upgrading in any case.
If I die over there I’ll put it in my well that someone can log in and plan a minute silence.
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| fundamental wrote: |
Yeah I think I’ll probably end up doing that.
Some of my base layers are getting very old and holey so could do with upgrading in any case.
If I die over there I’ll put it in my will that someone can log in and plan a minute silence. |
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Mitts > gloves. Hand warmers fit in boots, above your toes (the little chemical ones). If you’ve the cash electric heated socks and gloves really help. A thin wool balaclava under your helmet. Wool and down rule really help.
Good luck!
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@motdoc, why not buy the footwarmers which are a better shape for toes?
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Don’t exist is canada that I’ve seen. Mind you I don’t live in Banff. Hand warmers work where I live 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@fundamental, I spent a month in Fernie 2 years ago. When I arrived it was -50 (including windchill, they almost closed the lifts). I was wearing: tight thermals, baggy thermals, merino t-shirt, cashmere jersey, 2 goose down puffas and an outer layer. We were advised to smear our faces with vaz. The worst thing: my feet. Get neoprene overshoes. Two weeks later it was raining. 
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That’s brutally cold. They close the lifts at sunshine at -45, that’s what the liftie told me as he checked one time, at the time it was -43.
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You know it makes sense.
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