TR: Whistler backcountry 3/8/08

**postman22** · 03-08-2008, 11:11 PM

Had another good day with Rich, Sarah, Cam, Robin and Cole

Richard went off with a few straightlines and I had the best spine line of my life. Snow is still surprisingly good if you ski north faces and are willing to hike to it.

Rich

Robin

Cole

Till next week

**RampagingMullet** · 03-09-2008, 06:35 PM

here the only shots i got where the skier was bigger than a dot.
The first if of Robin, and the sequence is the postman

**Atrain505** · 03-09-2008, 06:48 PM

Those first three shots phil are money!
Looks like you guys went further down the ridge eh?
How is it over there?

**jon turner** · 03-09-2008, 06:50 PM

Looks like a damn fine day to be out skiing.

**postman22** · 03-10-2008, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Atrain505

Those first three shots phil are money!
Looks like you guys went further down the ridge eh?
How is it over there?

The first 3 pics of richard are the spines we were too scared to ski the other day with snow conditions (by our 2nd run). the far ridge is money but the pillows below are even better. will post more pics when robin sends me his

**shirk** · 03-10-2008, 12:32 PM

I am thinking we really missed the boat this weekend by passing up Saturday and trying to tour on Sunday. We really should have headed out to that zone instead of our useless mission to Foon on Sunday. Oh well.

Nice shots Mr. Cubicle Farmer.

**Kerf** · 03-10-2008, 01:33 PM

That defenitely looked like the place to be on saturday. Any shots of the pillows?

**powder11** · 03-10-2008, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by shirk

I am thinking we really missed the boat this weekend by passing up Saturday and trying to tour on Sunday. We really should have headed out to that zone instead of our useless mission to Foon on Sunday. Oh well.

Nice shots Mr. Cubicle Farmer.

they chose wisely

those pics look awesome and Saturday was the sleeper day of the season

I thought it was going to be shit and ended up having a rad day!

**rfoubi** · 03-10-2008, 08:09 PM

heres what i have from saturday, a couple decent shots at least

rich shredding

cole dropping in

phil

cole steezing it

rich

cam in the pow

phil

and rich with a pretty sweet straightline

**mountain_man** · 03-10-2008, 08:26 PM

i donno i can see three turns in there.

Originally Posted by rfoubi

cole steezing it

fair radpro.

stoke meter, charged.

**Microcosm** · 03-10-2008, 08:30 PM

That "cole steezing it" pic with the shadow underneath:sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet steeeze that's awesome. Nice TR dude.

**filthyfrenchbum** · 03-10-2008, 09:08 PM

Sweet shots, looks money, where abouts is this (around Fissile it looks like from some of the shots?)?

A couple of us just went for a walk to cowboy ridge on saturday as well, still had some good low-angle pow, but it made us contemplate the bigger lines in the area for the next time.

**LeeLau** · 03-10-2008, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by shirk

I am thinking we really missed the boat this weekend by passing up Saturday and trying to tour on Sunday. We really should have headed out to that zone instead of our useless mission to Foon on Sunday. Oh well.

Nice shots Mr. Cubicle Farmer.

Yup - it kind of blew but beats sitting around on the couch. Oh well - this doesn't deserve its own thread so i can at least bump a good one with nice pictures.

We went up to do Foon Alley. Due to kicking my ski off and having to dig around for 40 minutes to find it I ended up going straight up Poop chutes to the heli-stakes just N of Phalanx. Chris booted up to the Foon Alley ridge where we had a look at a whole pile of flat light and cloud.

Brian and Maya skied off a chute N of Poop while Chris and I skied back down Poop Chutes through boot top pow. Highlight was poutine at cittas

High winds at the heli stake

Ridge walk talus shuffle to Foon Alley

(Lack of) visibility

Chris approaching the ridge and watching out for cornices

Skiing off the ridge

**Tri-Ungulate** · 03-10-2008, 10:51 PM

Lot cloudier than when we were there, eh Lee? You guys have too much fun.

**postman22** · 03-10-2008, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by rfoubi

heres what i have from saturday, a couple decent shots at least

cole dropping in

robin your shots turned out awesome. i really like this one. what site do you use to upload your photos. facebook quality photos suck. i'm looking to change websites

**grskier** · 03-11-2008, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by postman22

robin your shots turned out awesome. i really like this one. what site do you use to upload your photos. facebook quality photos suck. i'm looking to change websites

right click...

properties...

photobucket

'tis how I learned

**Spark** · 03-11-2008, 06:19 PM

So I am in the midst of buying a place on the Shore (yay me, finally

) so no time for a TR but wanted to share some pics from skiing the Spearhead Glacier on Saturday....so I'm also invading your thread. The conditions were so much better then we anticipated and it helped that we stuck mostly to north aspects for the day.

Me enjoy some low angle goodness

Tele F showing how its done

F loving every turn

Stroupskier getting after it

Beauty

Stroupskier and I getting our funk on before shredding some untracked pow

**rfoubi** · 03-11-2008, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by postman22

robin your shots turned out awesome. i really like this one. what site do you use to upload your photos. facebook quality photos suck. i'm looking to change websites

yeah like gr figured out, i use photobucket, its free and lets you upload a bunch of pics at once at a decent quality.