TR: Blanket Glacier

[SkiNowWorkLater]

Time to stop being a lurker and to introduce myself! With all the crap that's been happening here with K-Stormchaser, I thought I would share some pictures from a trip I took last January to Blanket Glacier in BC. Hope you guys and gals enjoy!

We flew into the Blanket Glacier Chalet via helicopter from Revelstoke:


Here is our home for the week, the Blanket Glacier Chalet, with Blanket Peak in the background:


Our views north and south from the chalet:



Each day started out with a hike across the lake from the hut:


Some more skinning pictures. Hiking up through the valley fog. Most of the days we started out from the cabin in thick fog. Once we got up high enough though, it was bluebird skies and great snow!


Skinning up to Pollox peak with Castor in the background:


Scenery shots from the top of Pollox:



Another cool scenery shot:


Skiing down from Pollox:


On one of the days we attempted to summit Blanket peak (in the background of the hut picture), but avy danger was threatening, we would have had to negotiate a crevasse, and there was a huge cornice hanging over a cliff we would have had to climb under, so instead of bagging the peak, we climbed up to the saddle looker's left of the peak to hang out and have lunch and then skied down.

Myself (in yellow) and Chris hanging out on the ridge with the corniced cliff behind us:


My buddy EJ eventually made it up the climb to join us too. He was hating life on the climb until he got to the top and saw the views:


Me hanging out with the Rev's:


Skiing through the trees on the way back down:


Skinning back across the lake to our hut at the end of the day:


Hope this helped to make everyone's day better!

[GoldMember]

Great first post! Where is Blanket Glacier relative to Revelstoke?

[mitch buchannon]

great stuff. Thanks for the stoke.

[SkiNowWorkLater]

Great first post! Where is Blanket Glacier relative to Revelstoke?

The chalet is due south of Revelstoke in the Monashee mountains.


I got this map from their website www.blanketglacierchalet.com. It's acutally a really nice hut, situated around some awesome terrain with great snow. Nothing crazy steep, but it was a nice trip just to get away from the real world for a while. After we left it took me about 2 months to adjust back to real life again

[GoldMember]

Only two months? I've been going to Revelstoke for the last 5 or 6 years and haven't been well adjusted since before I went the first time.

I haven't been in the area where Blanket is. I've been across the river and north of town. Doesn't matter, it's all good! Again, great first post and thanks for the TR.

[SkiNowWorkLater]

Well, 2 months before I could get ANY work done instead of thinking about skiing there every second. Now I can get about a minute of work done between every 5 minutes of thinking about skiing. But shit man, all these CO dudes posting their "I just skied 1,000,000' of fresh pow in October!!!!11!!" is killing me! Fuggin' east coast....

[leroy jenkins]

bump for quality jong stoke, and cus im sick of the stormchaser drama

[skibuminwyo]

nice nice nice work...... ++++++kudos++++++

[mc_roon]

are they still talking about building a massive ski resort in revelstoke?

[Lexi-Bell]

That looks like a lot of fun, thanks for sharing!

[LaBelle23]

Beautiful pics! Looks like an awesome trip.

[LeeLau]

are they still talking about building a massive ski resort in revelstoke?

yes. but thankfully a long way away from Blanket glacier. Nice pictures and story. How respectful was CMH?

[GoldMember]

The big resort in Revelstoke is Mount McKenzie which is just east of town, nowhere near Blanket Glacier as LeeLau pointed out. I can't remember the vertical on it but it's supposed to be the biggest lift-served vertical in N. America (like 6000'???). I haven't heard how this is progressing.

[Bring On The Snow]

are they still talking about building a massive ski resort in revelstoke?

there trying to build one south of there nere invermere on jumbo glacier

[Sutter]

Great stoke, love the isolation and the smooth pow turns. Thanks!

[GoldMember]

there trying to build one south of there nere invermere on jumbo glacier

That's actually south and quite a bit east of Revelstoke on the lee side of the Purcells. The base of Mt. McKenzie is right at the edge of town and is currently Powder King Ski Area.

[Bring On The Snow]

\\The base of Mt. McKenzie is right at the edge of town and is currently Powder King Ski Area.

powder king ski resort is actually way way north of revelstoke in pine pass north of prince george

[PNWbrit]

The big resort in Revelstoke is Mount McKenzie which is just east of town, nowhere near Blanket Glacier as LeeLau pointed out. I can't remember the vertical on it but it's supposed to be the biggest lift-served vertical in N. America (like 6000'???). I haven't heard how this is progressing.

I was there in February 06. We met with the owner of the old ski area. He was still waiting for his money from new developers and had lawyers primed - all was not quite as described here - http://www.skirevelstoke.com/en/index.php

They have amazing terrain open to them and get the snow that KH lacks so perhaps it will work but I'm not sure. We decided against investing in anything and looked at Nelson instead.

Anyone hear anything more recent?

[GoldMember]

powder king ski resort is actually way way north of revelstoke in pine pass north of prince george

My bad. It's Powder Springs.

I think the Mt. McKenzie development is stalled out. We were there in January and heard about the same as PNWBrit. There haven't been any updates to the website in over a year. I know that the property values around the base doubled overnight when the original announcement was made. I bet there are some people who jumped on it that are really regretting it now.

[Crag of Zeus]

Your photos are scratching me right where I itch

[Alpine Dreams]

Welcome and thanks for sharing your great trip.

[LeeLau]

I was there in February 06. We met with the owner of the old ski area. He was still waiting for his money from new developers and had lawyers primed - all was not quite as described here - http://www.skirevelstoke.com/en/index.php

They have amazing terrain open to them and get the snow that KH lacks so perhaps it will work but I'm not sure. We decided against investing in anything and looked at Nelson instead.

Anyone hear anything more recent?

I did some digging into the backgrounds of the investors who were backing the hill. There were a lot of names there from TSE mining promotions - entirely too much eastern money. The problem with Eastern money is that they are very short-term focused and not the most reliable backers. The DD involved searches of Ontario, Alberta and BC companies and looking up the involved directors and officers so I have no link.

Needless to say I wasn't impressed.

I wasn't impressed with the value proposition in Nelson either but that's for different reasons.

[Monique]

Great TR, thanks for the stoke! It gave me a break from checking the local NOAA hour-by-hour site every ten minutes...which is a waste of at least 5/6 checks when ya think about it!

[Mex]

Sweet!!!

[SkiNowWorkLater]

yes. but thankfully a long way away from Blanket glacier. Nice pictures and story. How respectful was CMH?

CMH wasn't too bad. We could only hear the helis on one of our days, which was a low vis day, so we were both skiing in the same general tree area.