Oh man its getting hard to find snow these days! You really need to bust everything out that you have in your bag of tricks. Some people are lucky and can afford heli's, cat's or hut trips high in the mountains, but I can't and have to dig deeper in the bag to find the snow. Right now my bag is not very big, but its growing thanks to some of the people I have been out with lately. There are a few things I have learned this winter, one: ski north facing aspects and be happy with what they give you (facets, surface hoar, windslap, melt-freeze crusts...) and two: sleds are a poor mans helicopter. I have also discovered that I am not happy skiing the same run over and over again even if the conditions are good. I have found that I would much rather check out new area's despite poorer conditions, becasue the act of exploration is what makes it that much better. After a few good days at Revy I realized I needed to see some new terrain and headed to Golden. I hooked up with Caimin and Murray to do some much needed exploration.
Thanks to Marcie for letting me use her sled!
Getting ready to ditch the sleds and head towards the Mummery Glacier in the background.
Mt. Poland
Pillows for the way down, too bad they went isothermic!
Caimin working through the pillow field.
Chris, this shot is for you.
Crank'in a tele turn.
After the Mummery glacier we headed to Rogers Pass to check out Bonney Trees. Even though the freezing level went up to 1600m we were still able to get some ok turns in.
Wicked glad potential!
Cool twisted tree on the trail.
Yuri pushing into the good snow at the top of the tree island.
Snow hills.
Looking back towards Balu Pass.
So after a good adventure in the pass we hooked up with Murray and his crew of powder hounds to check in on some of his old stash's
Its been so long I almost forgot what it looked like.
Always sniffin for fresh snow, Murray hard on the trail.
The masters at work.
And at play.
The goods.
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