Although I have been in semi-retirement from TGR, I have been persistently nagged over the last couple weeks for pictures from a trip to AK in February. So, this TR is for all my naggers.
KB made his annual trip from the land of the rising sun, and was not about to have a repeat of last year, where he somehow got skunked by snow in Jackson. Since it has decided not to snow south of the 42 parallel this year, I met up with him in Seattle, with our new new plan being a tour up to Whistler, across to Revvy, Roger's Pass, Kicking Horse, Banff, Whitewater, and Red Mountain, throwing him on a plane in Spokane. Initially, our new new plan seemed to be very intelligent, as we hit the tail of the storm flow through the Cascades. Unfortunately, it then chose to go bluebird for the next 3 weeks. Which made for beautiful views:
And great skintrack scenery:
Along with bluebird pow:
But once we reached Canuckistan, we started getting concerned. While beautiful:
We were starting to feel lucky to get 3 centimeters on the snow report:
We did our best to overcome 1 cm snow reports:
But, seriously Whistler. 1 cm? Can't you spell Trace?
These powder levels were wholly unacceptable.
So, fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
This turned out be a good decision.
There was storm skiing. Lots of storm skiing.
And then we woke up to sun.
When this is the snow report, you can be fairly certain that something good is about to happen.
This is something good happening (KB needs a red helmet):
By 4 pm, the mountain was totally tracked out. It really started to suck:
So we decided to stretch our legs...
There was powder to be had
And sprayed
Before heading back to the hut.
Where we found the powder goods.
Both while meadow skipping,
And when not so meadow skipping.
For all of you sick of the gray pictures with flat light, we heard a weather window might be coming, so it was time to pile into the truck and start driving...
Bookmarks