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An old white camper van parked under Pacific Northwest trees

I · Whistler

The Chairlift

2016

Whistler, British Columbia · 50.11° N, 122.95° W

One chairlift ride at Whistler with Doug Stoup, and the next ten years started moving.

Two friends on a snowy summit backlit by the winter sun
The open door of the camper in a snowy Whistler lot
Two friends grinning in goggles inside a glacier ice cave
The blue ceiling of a glacier ice cave above Whistler

16 January 2016, a chairlift at Whistler Blackcomb with Erich Roepke, and a seat next to the polar explorer Doug Stoup.

Highlights

  1. 01Whistler Blackcomb · January 2016

I was 21.

Tiny figures beneath the bright mouth of a glacier ice cave
Two friends on a Whistler summit with the Coast Mountains behind
The Coast Mountains under a low winter sun from Whistler
Skiers on a wide alpine bowl high on Whistler

I had never been to the Arctic.

Doug became the mentor who sent me north at 22.

Erich and I were living in the Harvey, our RV, chasing snow across British Columbia.

He runs through the chapters after.

Intrepid Productions, the Amazon, Ice on Fire, Atomfjella, Riding Remote and the festival.

With

  • Doug Stoup

    Mentor

Stein Retzlaff · Skier

A lone figure on a rock outcrop at dusk above the Sierra

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