Contest

Backcountry.com and I had discussed a contest of sorts to help drive interest and to help drive me up and down for my last month of this challenge. I had no idea that they were going to make the prizes so great. I just looked at the site and anyone that wins will be pretty psyched. Sorry to fellow Canadians but legal mumbo jumbo makes it hard to run international contests.  Regardless check out the contest and get your american friends to guess.  Today was the first day of the comp and it was  a bit of a doozy but now that I know the comp has started I may pick it up a bit. Realistically I need to start going hard and this will inspire me to work my skins off.

Check it out backcountry.com

Freezing

Its been a little cold, so cold we turned around yesterday. We gave it an honest effort but after a few hours of -25’C and 30-50 km an hour winds we realized the foolishness of our adventure.

Today it was a similar temperature, but sans wind so bearable. Also we  managed to find some decent turns so it was all worth while. We went out expecting the worst and were rewarded with some decent pillow lines.

As usual there is more snow in the Monashee range so we could really enjoy the tree skiing and actually shred a little without worries of rocks and branches.

One more cold day and then it is supposed to change. Also i  have borrowed a charger for my camera so I can start getting some picture back on my blog. I lost my charger when we can home from Chile and have yet to find it, so my camera died and I have been camera less.

All for now, tired and ready for bed.

Still deep and fluffy

The last few days have been repeats of the same. Mostly because the access is easy, the turns amazing and the ski out relatively easy. There were 25 tracks down the two main runs on video and 8 of them were mine, all super fun and deep.  We posed up a shot but I turned the wrong way so I get lost in the pow but here is yesterday’s first turns off video. Courtesy of Joey.

The weather is not looking promising, -20 to -30’C at elevation tomorrow. If there are any winds with that it will be cold.  And the same for the next 3 days, cold and clear. Brrrrrr.  We need snow not cold and clear, but it looks like it should change by this weekend.

So no need for me to pound huge days, since sweating is not conducive to comfort when it is that fricking cold. Hopefully the real snow starts soon.