The old lady and our crew head up n to BC every year for a hut/yurt trip, poormans heli skiing one flight in and a flight out a week later.
Left the zion curtain in a freezing rain clusterfuck of traffic carnage and made it to CDL.
Next day made it up to Rossland and a sweet condo @ red mt.
Skinned up to gray mt for a few wind buffed rhime laps
This was our first trip to Rossland/Red cool town and resort
headed up to Kaslo to fly in Sun.
quivers, gear, food booze and other assorted party favors are unloaded weighed and sorted for transport
nothin like a joint smokin jolly rodger in the doorway to make ya feel @ home for the week
the hut/lodge is pretty sweet
nice funtional kitchen w/ running water
f&b consumption area
and the terrain
We came in on a few days of good right side up low density snow w/ little winds
After the legal waivers safety mumbo jumbo we geared up for a short sunday nooner tour.
like graybird skintrack pics? oh i got em:wink:
Stabilty was pretty decent, there were some buried weak layers, and a couple weeks of high pressure had provided some crusts that the new snow had bonded pretty well to, a lack of significant winds ment cold smokeblowerpow and not a lot of wind slab
We storm skied out the afternoon w/ a couple laps in the sweet tree below the hut to the valley floor.
monday we awoke to the 15 or so cm's that fell overnight on top of the previous days similiar snowfall
well and fried pork nitrate products
the sun peaked out a bit that day and the whole crew headed over to carpenter pass.
Toph and I passed on skiing down the pass to the valley floor and cut a high traverse below prospector peak
and headed up little prospector
did a bit of stability checkin while waitin for the mrs. and our most excellent pnw hut bros Rich and I guess it's Dr WD now to skin up from the valley floor
I picked up a canon g15 p&s for the trip so as not to have to drag the dslr around and overall pretty stoked on it
works pretty well
when ya focus it right anyhow
hooked up w/ the rest of our crew for some laps in the sheltered prospector/valentine trees
the rest of the team was across the valley in the lumber yard and we could see them rippin sweet lines on our ups
it skied well
the terrain
day 2 was a trip over towards pyramid peak and the pillow factory known as the rock slide
the best day skiing as far as snow quality that mixed with graybird storm light ment not a lot of photo sluttin
cool terrain aint gots much pillow terrain back home in wasangles
mrs. sfb
after a few laps
the mrs. Rick DRWD toph and I headed back to the lodge, up, around up, and over to what the hutkeeper described as not named on the map or listed in the run book, but most people manage to find anyway
laboring breakin trail led to great rewards
Toph
Rick
and the spanser/soulmate
wasn't till later at dinner when the part about 2 people dying on that slide path the 2nd week the hut opened was mentioned.
Which was fine as I doubt my wife would have came with had that part of not on the map been mentioned
That night snow continued to fall and we wondered what hump day would bring.
the canadian weather guessers guessed clearing and warming and sunshine
well they got the warming part right as snow densities changed and the great destroyer of powder the wind came to visit.
A lot err make that most unsheltered terrain was affected wind yesterdays good stability now was suspect w/ loading and slabs present
sheltered subalpine trees still skied well and we dropped to the valley floor
1/2 of us headed over towards motherload basin and the troll trees and the other 1/2 returned to the rockslide area
the shot we skied the previous day
plenty of goods to be launched in the troll trees
The next day we headed back out
wind funked?
yup
we need
thankfully we found it again in the sheltered valentine/prospector trees
and we all began another graybird skin back to the pass
Huge props to Bruce everything you could want out of a hutkeeper sauna stoked, lodge clean and disinfected, solid advise on terrain and funny antedotes/stories
The weather guessers had been guessing the sun would return since tues so faith intheir guessing was rrather low
So we awakened fri to more graybird at least they got the warming temps part right and once again the winds howled overnight.
