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Has anyone skiied this and is it really as hard as it made out by the Banff publicity machine? I haven't been to Sunshine in years but am going back this winter and keen to have a go. I know about the transceiver, etc requirements but wanted some advice on the best place to drop in and easiest lines down.
Also took a look at pics of Silver City but there's no way I'm going near that.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Tommy4681, Glad you posted this as I have been eying it up for my trip out there in Jan/feb.
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Just watched the Vids, hmm, doesn't look to bad, but I s'pose all will be revealed once I see it on the stark light of day!
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mark handford, I would make a trip to Kicking Horse... more than worth the journey and they run trips from Banff for $80 or something... More than worth it.
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didn't ski it when we were there as we didn't have the equipment, but having had a look at it, i'd say it's no worse than some of the stuff you can ski at Lake Louise without all of the kit. Depends what line you take down it though. Some BIIIIIG lines there. Some more mellow - but still steep at the top - stuff too.
Next time i'm there, i'll get more orgainised and ski it. 
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shoogly, for ref you can rent the "big3" from Mountain Magic in town...
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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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| didn't ski it when we were there as we didn't have the equipment, but having had a look at it, i'd say it's no worse than some of the stuff you can ski at Lake Louise without all of the kit. |
I haven't tried it, because I didn't (and still don't) have the ability to ski anything remotely gnarly off-piste.
But what you say doesn't surprise me at all, given that my experience generally was that runs as Sunshine were mainly over-graded relative to those at LL (i.e. what would be a blue at LL would be single black at least at Sunshine).
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I spent a season in Banff some years ago, I never once went to Sunshine  as I just realy like LL and the backbowls. This year I will make a point of trying all 3 areas, I too heard whilst I was out there that Sunshine grades were pushing it a bit compared to the rest of the area.
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You know it makes sense.
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mark handford,  , Sunshine is probably my least favourite of the three.
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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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Obviously it totally depends on your experience, confidence and ability but with those provisios.... as long as the snow is soft it's been a great run in my experience. Getting in and started is the trickiest bit, as is often the case, but by no means the worst thing I've come across in Canada 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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shoogly, Skiers left is Farside, Renegade etc, immediate left is Cleveage between the 2 big ass rocks. Hells Kitchen is my favourite run on Goatseye, before Sunshine Coast bends onto the cat track just keep going straight ahead!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Rock Ledges off Teepee in Sunshine is great fun, probably my favourite - bouncing down into the trees. Star Trek is pretty damn good too. Hell's Kitchen ate my bases. Bad snow year, I guess.
LL was terrible snow & visibility when I was there, so spent most of the time hunting powder at Sunshine.
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