The skin trak was like a bloody highway, with plenty of room to lurch both left and right. We ran into one lonely snowshoe-er who had decided to pitch a tent because the warming hut was just to crowded. Well, we didn't mind cause we we're headed to Elfin Lake hut anyways. We arrived there around 11:00 and immediately set to waking up the whole cabin, which turned out the be 3 very nice girls.
Waking up on sat was great. There was tons of fresh snow outside and we'd had a very refreshing breakfast. While we introduced ourselves to Kelly, Jen and Meghan we played a great game of Acey Duecey and passed the morning in laughter. We actually didn't even manage to finish the game due to the fact that we became much to excited about all the fresh snow.
Scrambling, we donned our gear and headed outside for some play time. Both I and Scotty decided a ski off the roof of the hut was in order to commence our day. Then we headed out to the gargoyles, dug a pit and found that the stability of the snow was excellent with ~2 feet of fresh powder on top.
Skiing was amazing! We dropped line after line and had nothing but light fluffy powder in our faces. I was even getting the stuff up through the bottom of my coat when I jumped from turn to turn. I problably shouldn't complain considering we don't get many days of snow like that.
Nick was ripping it up on his tele ski's and was doing amazingly well for being new to them. Scotty just couldn't get enough and I certainly was enjoying myself. What an amazing day it turned out to be.
We headed out around 3 and managed to make it back to the truck just as dusk was approaching. With satisfying sighs we threw our gear into the back and jumped in for the eventful drive back to Squamish.
Now when I say "eventful" I mean that Scotty's tires weren't exactly gripping the ice beneath his truck and the chains we had with us we're just a bit to big, so using them was out of the question. Instead Me and Nick found ourselves walking alongside the truck with our crampons on pushing the back end in while Scotty kept the front passenger tire in the snowbank. In the end it worked out well and we made it back none the worse for wear. But walking the truck out from the Elfin Lakes parking lot took us longer than the ski out. Which I thought was rather humerus.
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