Spearhead Passage race
The main reason I am in Whistler is to participate in the Spearhead Passage race. A 6800foot 26km high alpine traverse that is the Canadian Ski Mountaineering Championships. Realising that I haven’t raced much this year I thought I should enter this race so that they don’t think I am over the hill.
The Spanish racing team has come over to show us how its done so I realised immediately that I wasn’t in the running for first. Maybe 3 or fourth. The real challenge was to be the best north american/canadian.
The race ended up going well for me and I placed 4th, with two Spaniards and a Slovakian ahead of me. The winning time was 2.26 and I finished in 3hrs, quite a difference! The speed they tour at is impressive!!!!
After the race I lapped a few more runs to manage 10 300 feet of touring.
Decent skiing in Whistler
I am surprised once again. Toured off of Blackcomb today and had some great turns, I had to cross over a couple of other peoples tracks but still managed some untracked turns. We skied D.O.A. which had great snow in it.D.O.A is a chute that comes off of Blackcomb Peak and is seen while going up Seventh Heaven. Then Aaron and I toured back towards Spearhead peak and the Husume bowl. Once again we had some great turns off the direct start into it.
I am supposed to do 10 grand today but I am feeling a little tired and only managed 5600, I might squeeze in some more later but I doubt it. My yearly total is 944 000 feet and I am hoping to get to a million by Tuesday, 4 days to do 56000 feet. That seems like a lot to do but I managed 50 000 in a day I hope I can manage 56 in four days.
I am sooo very close to a million that I have to go hard till I reach it. The skiing has been so great all year and it seems like I will have powder turns till the end. This million will be more glorious in its finishing days, last time I had to tough it out in late May. This time I will have great turns right down to the last one..
I have a few plans for these last 4 days. Time will tell though.
ten by ten
We are off to Whistler so I got up early and squeezed in ten by 10:10 am. Started at 5.30 and went for it up Mt-mackenzie. I was surprised by some great dust on crust, 15-20cm of light flluff on of a hard crust
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Yesterday i lapped some spring skiing runs at the fingers (not recommended). Ended up doing 12 000 feet in 7 hrs. Saw some huge grizzly tracks. Kinda eery knowing there is a grizz around while I am skiing. Hopefully I would be faster than him on the uphills but i wonder?
gotta go
