Ski Day 9 & 10

I headed up Cypress Mountain to get some quality time in with mother nature and it was fantastic! She puked snow all day and made skiing off of the top of Strachan fantastic. After Strachan I headed across the hill and skied up to the top of
Black Mountain, this run was definitelly way better and I met a very friendly park ranger named "Simon".

On Thursday I headed up Mount Seymour with Jay and we skied into the back country till we had a great view of Vancouver from a little rise. It was a clear and beautifull night. We skied down to the base of Seymour and waffled on whether to skin another lap, in the end we did

All in all the last week of November was a fantastic month and I managed to get my 10th ski day in. I must say that I'm very satisfied.

Above: At the top of the Sky Chair on Cypress

Above: The stump that saved Jay's life. Its the ~3' stump in the middle of the photo. Imagine hitting that at about 30 km/hr with nothing but your ribs to stop you. So we took our pain magnet to the hospital after.

Sweet November Skiing

Scotty and I headed up to Garabaldi Provincial Park after that big dump of snow. Our plans were to do a bit of skiing around Elfin Lake under a beautiful bluebird sky.

We left the parking lot at around 9:30 and didn't stop skiing till we reached the hut about 3 1/2 hours later. On the way we encountered much freshness and couldn't believe the quality of the snow. The closer we came to the hut tho more we noticed a thin wind slab forming throughout the snowpack.

There were point release avalanches on the northeast facing slopes beneath lil Diamond Head. We figured that we might as well ski up, take a look and dig a pit. It turned out that the snow falling from the trees had caused the avalanches and when we tested our pit the stability of the snow pack was quite good. Regardless we decided to play it safe and stick in the trees.

We left Elfin lake at 4:20 and skied back in the dark to the parking lot. Our one big lession, besides the avalanches, was that it isn't worth skiing out to the hut unless your planning on spending the night. The skiing around red heather is much better! Lesson learned.

Rockin the House

At the start of the day there were only 2 of us, but that didn't last for long. We ended up meeting a crazy group, about 7 individuals, with the intentions of heading out skiing. We didn't know where yet but it turned out to be Cloudburst Mountain in behind Squamish.

The group was great and we met a lot of people(15 on the summit of Cloudburst) who all loved and enjoyed skiing as much as us. After the summit we skied down the northwest face and entered a sweet little bowl courtesy of our buddy Lee.

We had excellent photographers who took amazing shots and caught all the action. Big shout outs to Pat and Lee. Enjoy the movie.



PHOTO CREDIT:
Aaron Lucke
Pat Mulrooney
Lee Lau

Banana Chute - Mt Fissile