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03-17-2008, 08:04 PM #1
TR: Joffre Group March 15, 2008 or Oh no not again
It started with great plans to summit and ski three peaks in one day but ended with a whited-out whimper. The weekend's weather forecast looked it might give Brian and I a one-day window of good weather so we made a plan to ski into Cerise Creek, overnight at Keith's Hut then summit and ski Joffre, Matier and Slalok and exit via Joffre Lakes.
The plan started well as we set out from the Cerise Lot at 10:45. In 1.5 hours we were at the hut and snoring
The next morning we were up before our hutmates. Early morning fog burnt away and views became inspiring. The first peak is a tedious slog via the standard route. On the theory that its best to get the hardest out the way, we started up Joffre via Aussie Couloir.
Because we were relatively early, it was a nice climb. It started getting seriously hot only at the top of the final pitch.
Summit and sunny! Central Couloir does not look very inviting and we gave the cornices a wide berth
As luck would have it, cloud rolls in as we prepare to descend. A half - hour of waiting doesn't help our body temps or mood and visibility remains shite
Clouds break a bit at the bottom - just enough to taunt us and make me think wild-thoughts about skiing Matier and Stonecrop in windows of blue sky sucker-holes. In retrospect, I'm glad Brian remained sane and talked me out of it.
We did manage to eke out some decent turns retreating off the Matier and Anniversary Glaciers. Brian however was frustrated in his goal of being the first person to put in a 10,000 foot day in the Joffre Group in alpine boots.
Will put up full TR, map, beta so you too can get to Circus Creek yourself later.
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03-17-2008, 08:26 PM #2
$$$$$$$$$$$$I belong to a cult that believes in wrecking leather jackets, dying themselves purple and demolishing 40 beer.
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03-17-2008, 08:30 PM #3just another JONG
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wicked photos Lee. hopefully i can make it next time.
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03-17-2008, 08:58 PM #4
Better luck with weather next time. Good turns regardless.
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03-17-2008, 09:00 PM #5Registered User
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Great pics, especially the one looking through your legs.
I can't believe you are a rando racer because I look so much better in Lycra than you.
People who don't think the Earth is flat haven't skied Vail.
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03-17-2008, 09:02 PM #6
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03-17-2008, 09:06 PM #7
Your photos never cease to blow me away. Most of these have a very neat kind of surreal quality to them.
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03-17-2008, 09:09 PM #8
nice work boys!
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03-17-2008, 10:01 PM #9forest Guest
great shots again Lee. any sign of that big slide from Wednesday?
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03-17-2008, 10:03 PM #10
Nice try. We occasionally talked about trying to pull off the same tour, also in alpine boots since AT boots were so weak when I was living up there. Better luck next time with the weather, still looks like good skiing
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03-17-2008, 10:26 PM #11
Nice shot man. This could have gone here
edit - i put it in there for yaLast edited by FreakofSnow; 03-17-2008 at 10:30 PM.
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03-17-2008, 10:37 PM #12
^^^^^ ditto, rad shot
Hello darkness my old friend
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03-18-2008, 01:06 PM #13
Didn't have enough pics to warrant my own thread so I thought I would bump this one up again.
We found some new couloirs around whistler. Unfortunately it was 15cms on pure ice so we elected to try them some other day
Both have pretty big rollovers which is what turned us around.
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03-18-2008, 08:27 PM #14Registered User
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Lee setting a strong pace with the intention of knocking out 3000m.
We go UP, before we can go down.
Before the weather crapped out I snapped a pic of what was supposed to be our next objective of the day. Northwest face of Matier.
WTF just happend to the vis. Did you call for a cloud delivery?
Steep skiing is easy like Sunday morning.
Oh it would have been oooohh so much nicer to ski the powder with vis.
Just about half of the couloir not in the cloud.
Anniversary Glacier held some nice boot deep meadow skipping on our retreat.
Hucking on Dynafits. For anyone that knows Lee you know his depth perception is way off. In the flat light we rolled up to the edge of this cornice, as I was still trying to figure out how big it was Lee said it only looked like a couple feet and slipped off the edge. He plummeted straight down and out of sight. Guess it was a bit bigger than expected.
Next time we'll hope for a bigger weather window. Good tour thou.
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03-18-2008, 09:29 PM #15Registered User
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Nice trip.
Just skied this one this morning . . .
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03-19-2008, 11:25 AM #16
yup - i showed that cornice who's boss
Full TR - http://www.leelau.net/2008/joffregroup2008_03_15/
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03-20-2008, 06:42 AM #17Registered User
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bizzump.
the usual Lee et al superlatives.
Lee's impromptu cornice hucking made me laugh.
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03-20-2008, 06:55 AM #18
Love-leeeeeeeee!
Let me lock in the system at Warp 2
Push it on into systematic overdrive
You know what to do
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03-20-2008, 12:14 PM #19Registered User
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