Thread: Blanket Glacier Chalet 2/28- 3/4 TR

Here is a Tr and some photos from our week @ the Blanket Glacier Chalet.
The Mrs, another couple from Slc and I flew into Calgary and drove to Revelstoke. Sat. morning we met up at the lz, a farm along the Columbia.



The Chalet is ~a 15min flight so by 2:00pm we were out touring. It had snowed about a meter the past 3 days and conditions were nice at the start of the tour.

Skinning up Caribou Ridge on the way to Stevie Wonder


The weather changed as a strong wind and snow started.
Sun. Morning there was a fresh 32cm and it pretty much dumped allday. We headeded for some steep trees in an area called the Monster.
We did 3 2000'+ laps before calling it a day.

A few Monster pics
Tracy
Galina


Mon. morning and another 26cm of fresh although it was heavier snow.
We retuned to the same area to take advantage of the uptrack and snow stability that the trees offered.
A shot of the chicks breakin trail as the guys partake in another safety meeting.

And the Mrs reaping the fruits of thier labor


The snows stopped that night but started up again tues morn. We skinned a couple of hours out to Xmass land for some more steep & sheltered trees.


Weds finally some sun. PowderPond and I had had enough yo yoing trees so we set out to try and summit Blanket Peak. After about 5 hours of leave no trace skinningand trying to change aspects we made it to the notch a few hundred ft. shy of the peak.
Pondo

When the highlight of you tour is an acid flashback daydream of a "Mothership" Cloud coming down, you know maybe this wasn't the best use of your time. This was reaffermed back at the chalet as others had found the goods in the trees off the $1,000,000 run.
The Mothership Cloud Above Castor/Pollax

After a few thousand feet of wind buffed westayed out late and made a few laps along the cliffs in front of the chalet.
Thurs we awoke to a few more cm of snow and a partly sunny day.We headed S up to Castor And Pollax peaks.

Galina

Ppond

another Wasatcher Jay droppin knee

Rick on the ridge

Fri Another sun filled day of goodness.We all rolled out for a early lap in front of the cabin.
An early morning lightly dusted quiver shot.

Tracy


Her better 1/2 Jay

Rick

PowderP

The rest of the crew headed back to summit Blanket and Pam ,Rick and I decided to head back for a few Xmass laps




Sat. the next group in to the yurt was not coming in till noon so Rich Chris and I went out for dawn patrol.
Dawn Alpenglow over the Selkirks

Powder Pond

My fav pic of the week PP Keepin the Carbon Surfs Up

All good things come to a end
and a few more on the way out


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Canada

Holy friggin score on conditions. Looks like quite the nice time.

glad you had a good time, looks like a nice trip, some great photos

looks like an awesome time man,
thanks for the pics

You nailed it!

Great pics. Too many good'ns to note just one.

That's the sorta stuff I dream of....

kick ass!

Canada does indeed kick much ass. Thank you for the TR sir! That was money

Beee-uuu-teee-fulll! I really like the quiet solitude looks of the shadow boxing set.
Thanks

So sick, so sick. Looks like dreams do come true.

Got any lodge rental beta?

http://www.blanketglacierchalet.com/

Note that CMH Monashees shares that area too but they're pretty good about staying away and not overflying.

Wasatchers in a helicopter?
I figured you'd have walked in.

Here is a few more pics worth posting
Sun dog

Alpenglow

and a few of me




I wasn't in this area but it kind of looks like this caribou is deficating in the CMH lz.

As LL said the chalet and CMH have a pretty good working relationship. They are in radio contact and make a real effort not to overfly or ski the same terrain.