White cap alpine

 I am off to white cap alpine for a photo/video  shoot for G3, it looks like a great place to ski and I imagine that I will have no issues getting my 10 000 feet a day while I am there. Four days of ski touring and photo shooting. Sometimes photo shoots can be a  bit annoying but  I am sure that this will work out well.

 It is also the Chilcotin mountain range which is a range I have never skied in, i hope that the weather works out and I can ski some new summits and some great descents. Time will tell.

 I think that there will be internet but i cannot promise it. Otherwise I will blog big when I get out.

Dust on crust

Heading out this morning I wasn’t sure exactly what type of snow I was going to be skiing. The warm temperatures had brought the rain line up to 6000 feet yesterday, so it was possible that the skiing above that level would be decent. I chose to go up grizzly shoulder so that if the weather cleared I would be able to get up to 9000 feet on little sifton and get some great snow up high. But the snow never stopped.

Luckily there was 20 cm of light fluffy snow on top of the rain crust. The skiing from 7300 feet and down was fast and aggressive. The loose dust on top would slough its way down anything steep so all day I had to pay attention to my sloughs and watch them over my shoulder. Skiing the steep trees was great, although the crust underneath never disappeared. I set up a fast top to bottom lap of around 2300 feet and repeated it four times plus a little bit to get 11 000 feet of fun skiing in. Day 55 done…still lots to go…

A morning mission

Looking at the weather report for today it did not bode well for photos and summits so I chose a morning mission. I started touring at 6.30 and skinned up Mt-mackenzie. The snow came in quickly and I was engulfed in a snow storm. A warm wet storm. Luckily I was efficient and had my ten done by 12 and I could get out before the storm got any worse.   All for now.
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