Asulkan Valley
Today felt like mid winter conditions, up in the alpine we encountered 70-90 cm of powder from the past 4 days. Ridiculous skiing. Ian, Chris and myself drove up to Rogers Pass and skinned up the Asulkan valley to ski the Glacier and hopefully the thorington route on Leda.
The sun was out in the morning and everything looked amazing, every line looked filled in and we talked about the infinite possibilities for the day. Eventually we were at the back of the valley and touring up towards Sapphire Col. As we were nearing the upper alpine catabatic winds tore at our clothing and any exposed skin. Realising that summitting Mt-Castor was not going to be a pleasurable experience we chose to ski a 3000 foot run down the Asulkan glacier. 
We enjoyed deep cold turns the whole way down. The light was slightly flat so I led but it sure looked like the others were loving it.
After such an incredible run it was easy to convince ourselves that we needed another just like it. So back up we went and we had to break trail for most of the climb as wind had blown our old one away.
Once again we had a great run down the glacier and enjoyed slightly better light with some steeper powder turns. Here is a shot of Ian,not the best shot but he is lost somewhere in the powder cloud.
We couldn’t get enough so we toured back up and over onto the Dome side . The wind got stronger and very gusty probably blowing up to 80 km an hour. ruining some of the amazing snow we had just enjoyed. But the Dome stayed protected and we had a fantastic run down to Valley bottom.
I wish the boys had told me they were going to tour 10 000 feet because I would not have squeezed in a lap early in the morning. 11200 feet of great skiing.
Mcgill Shoulder
The selkirks are so dependable, even when I doubt them they usually pull through. It has been so warm and rainy that I felt that snow quality was going to be suspect. When I read the avalanche report for the day I was teased with a 27 cm of fresh at Fidelity(6500ft). So there was powder out there I just had to get high enough into the mountains to find it.
Instead of driving up to the pass I chose to go up Mcgill shoulder, as mentioned previously this is an area I go to when suspecting avalanche danger. The winds had blown overnight so I was expecting areas of windslab and I knew I could hide from any danger on Mcgill.
I punched a skin trail up to 7000 ft and was super excited after my first run.40 cm of light snow on top of a rain crust. Hero skiing, fast and deep with powder spraying my goggles on almost every turn. I immediately connected to my up track and set up a 1800 foot lap. Four laps later and 10800 feet of good skiing and I skied home.
Looks like some sun tomorrow, so hopefully I will get some good photos…
RMR Fam weekend
Revelstoke Mountain Resort familiarization weekend. Somehow I got invited onto a media weekend. With the resort about to expand there is a need to create some hype about our mountain. So the resort organized a weekend where they invited 12 different writers to come and get an insight into the future resort. I got myself invited onto the weekend so that I could help them see the potential and geta locals pointof view. It was an easy task since I am psyched about the future of the hill. Check out their website RMR
I spent the weekend dinning and skiing with these writers. We had a day of cat skiing and s day of heliskiing with Selkirk Tangiers. Typically the weather did not co-operate and the skiing was a little moist. Not as picture perfect as we would have liked.
I was excited to fly with Selkirk Tangiers because I had hopes of scoping some new lines and skiing some new descents but as luck would have it we skied in the area known as Choices. “Choices” is the cirque that I did my 40 000 foot day in. I had not been back since the day I had lapped this bowl 25 times and ironically here I was heliskiing these lines.
Everyone had a great time shredding around the selkirks.All in all a great weekend where the writers got to see the unliited potential of this resort.
