Season’s first video

I finally had a bit of time to work on my first video and here it is. A first in the SKIN FLICK series

enjoy.

Mt-Rogers

     Today’s run is one of the premier runs in Roger’s Pass, if only because it is off Mt-Rogers.  Sitting at 10 500 feet it is one of the higher peaks in the park and around the 30th highest in the Selkirks. A beautiful mountain that towers above the highway, 6200 feet above it.

It has been around four years since I have skied off its summit, pre-blog. Before I started taking pictures and filming obsessively.

Today was worth the four year wait, with conditions uncertain and a mix of sun and clouds it seemed like a great option. We, Joey, Conor, Isaac, Mark and myself, toured up quickly to the glaciated bench under the face and enjoyed lunch. The sun began poking out and we were psyched to skin our way to the summit.

Freezing winds and cold temperatures meant we didn’t stay on the summit for long but who could with such a great line awaiting. We all carved in to the face and giggled our way down through the cold fast powder. Down and down until around 6000 feet where the conditions got real bad, real quickly. Frozen crusts and poorly covered rocks brought us to our car.

Awesome day, wicked terrain, and great footage.

A day off Revelstoke Mountain Resort

Revelstoke Mountain resort opened up yesterday, bringing easy access to high alpine skiing. So I brought the kids up the Gondola and gave them a view of the mountains. How exciting would that be a for a 2 and 3 year old? They have ridden it before but lots has changed in the last 7 months and I bet they enjoyed the ride.

Today we took the lift up to the top and hiked our ways to the sub summit. Slightly cloudy and forbidding we boot packed along the ridge towards Mt-Mackenzie. Looking for Door number One, we peered down a few great lines and arrived at our door. Since this is a lean season there was almost no cornice build up and we were able to ski directly into this great line.

Aaron, Dave and myself dropped in and carved some turns down the 2000 foot run. I, with a pvc head cam unit, skied it first and I may have gotten a cool perspective on the descent.

From this point we toured north and then east around the summit of Mt-Mackenzie and started making our way up the north ridge. None of us had ever been up here and we were loving the exploratory feel of it.Eventually it got a little gnarly looking and we chose option A. A two thousand foot  line that  tumbled to the valley floor. The snow was smooth, neast facing with no wind effect, great turns. From there we toured up into a new basin and watched some friends ski a salt&peppery line off the ridge. Lots of amazing chutes around, I counted over 16 into the small basin we toured up.  I am sure to be back to savour a few of them. A steep boot pack plus a couple of short tours brought us back to the gondola and a speedy download.

It may be a lean season but we still managed some great turns today and some fun exploring.