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!
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