Odin
Last night when I was looking for some information on Mt-Odin, I looked up in my search bar on this website and found no information. I climbed and skied Odin about 6 years ago, pre-blogging so I had no posts on this mountain at all. It was time to add one.
Mt-Odin is 2970m, 15 highest in the monashees, highest summit in the southern monashees, 9 in BC for prominence, and it boasts an amazing north facing line that cascades 5500ft from summit to valley bottom.
To access this beauty is a mission, drive 50km south, 15 km up a logging road, sled 10 km, drop snowmobile 1, sled some more and drop sled 2. then begin hiking up valley, amazing peaks all around. A long but great 10 km tour up valley, up 6000ft to the summit, with a little boot pack to finish it off. 
We were on the summit by 2.45pm and seemingly would be home relatively on time, around 6 pm. Standing on top and looking NE we could almost see Avalanche Mt, yesterdays summit, 97 km away as the crow flies.
Right as we were about to drop in CMH heli skiing flew over and watched as I dove into the line. Wind slabbed at first it eventually softened up to great carvable skiing. What a proud line; from 9900 ft down to 4400 ft, amazing. Endless.
What I had forgotten, was that the run was endless but so was the valley escape. 6 km of downhill/uphill creek descent. I took off quickly, full of steam to get the exit done, within an hour I was frustrated and still no end in sight. Finally we reached the sled. Mission far from over. We all grabbed onto the ropes and all five of us towed back to the sled drop. 1 hour left of sled towing, to the van, an hour drive and home by 8.45pm. A 15 hour adventure.
Avalanche!!!!! Mountain
Since my last post the avalanche hazard went through the roof and we were playing conservative for awhile. Some touring off the hill, some early morning and late night vertical missions up the hill, and then yesterday a tour up the Bonney with Mom, Don and Tracey.
I have been wanting to bring Tracey up here for a few years, its a longer hike but such a mountainous place. Glaciers, cornices, seracs, huge vertical walls, beautiful.
Today Joey, Mark and I headed up Avalanche mt, another peak I have never summitted. I have been within 300ft of the summit and always turned around in the steepest part of the chute. Today we climbed both summits, and skied the Se run which was awesome.
We then skinned/boot packed our way up the south ridge and summitted again.
A great day out with two splitboarding buddies. With a great finish down the NW chute. Some great alpen glow made for a perfect finish.
All for now, tired and excited about tomorrow I need to make my lunch and go to bed.
The other side of Grizzly
Its funny how so many lines can sit there for ages and never be seen. I was feeling a little tired today and not exuberant, feeling that after the week of new runs that it was time to take a break. Jeff mentioned Grizzly, Aaron took his idea and suggested a north chute off its western summit. Aaron had a great photo of the line from last week and we all looked at it on his view finder, zooming in and examining it. It was such a defined line; it seemed funny that I had never really noticed it. Maybe in passing but never as a ” we should go ski THAT” sorta line.
We quickly climbed up and summitted Grizzly Mt and then Jeff and Aaron checked out the entrance.
The start zone was small and we were able to drop some cornice on it and then ski cut it. It all fell away beautifully and soon enough the three of us were leapfrogging our way down. Small slabs had to be ski cut off the sides of the chute and then the fan was thoroughly enjoyed by all of us. A 2000ft run, back up to Little sifton where we waited patiently for the clearing that never came. then down through a notch and back into Grizzly bowl. Good times. 
