Twin Goat Mtn 3-23-11

**powder11** · 03-24-2011, 05:56 PM

Apparently NO correction is due from my original thread and we can pretty much claim 1st descent on Twin Goat. According to local legend Johnny Foon, who has pioneered tons of rad ski lines in the Whistler/Pemberton/Duffy region, he has never skied Twin Goat and is pretty certain nobody else had up until we did. Foon only took some photos and added it to his site in hopes of getting after it someday. I was pretty sure that was the case, but got called out and obviously did not want to claim something if it wasn't true. I'm pretty stoked either way because it was such a rad line, but it's even more satisfying to get a 1st descent so close to home.

Spring time sunrise over the Duffy from the airport.

Why drive the Duffy when you can fly it?

Heli drop on top of Twin Goat Mtn

Audios! Kind of nice to ski the gnar 1st thing instead of at the end of a slog.

Anniversary glacier col, our exit strategy and where we were headed later in the day.

Pemberton valley over Lilloet Lake and Mt Currie to the left.

The east end of Lilloet Lake.

We slayed the main couloir on the lookers left running all the way down Twin Goat Mtn (south of Slalok in between the lake). I dropped in on the spine slightly lookers left of that little apex to the left of the entrance to the chute. The main chute was probably 45-50 degrees, but that spine was probably the steepest I've ever skied; probably 50-55. The spine line entrance made Summit Chute off Fissile feel like childs play in comparison.

Looking at the entrance to the main couloir from the top of my line.

Looking down at a skier in the main couloir.

Me dropping in on the spine line.

Jay took this shot looking down the chute; probably about 1/2 way down.

and another shot from the same point looking back up

At this point the camera got put away and I focussed on skiing. The snow conditions could not have been any better. 15cms of cold smoke on top of a very solid, stable snowpack. It was sluffing pretty well the whole way down, so I didn't stop for any pics in the couloir. The main couloir was a leg burner, probably close to 2000 vertical feet.

Shaun looking very pleased with the day so far.

Twin Goat from the bottom.

My entrance line from a distance.

The group "claiming" 1st descent on our way back up to Anniversary glacier

It took about 4hrs of pretty fast pace to beat the heat and get up to the col on Anniversary glacier.

Got out of the sketchy skin track terrain zone just in time for the miday sun to turn it into deadly mush. I was more nervous skinning up that slope than skiing the couloir.

Anniversary glacier col with Twin Goat in the background.

What TR is complete without some super ghey glacier skipping!

Obligatory Joffre Lakes shot

cool glacier scenic on the way out

All in all a pretty satisfying day, but the ski back home was a long slog and I can see why not many people would want to do that, but worth every ounce of sweat and the big blister on my heel!

**PulverSchwein** · 03-24-2011, 06:04 PM

awesome Toby, just awesome

**grskier** · 03-24-2011, 06:12 PM

Some amazing terrain shown there!! nice work

**LeeLau** · 03-24-2011, 06:14 PM

the shit eating grin in the last pic is priceless!!! So is coming back home safe to two little baby boys

**skiingnow** · 03-24-2011, 06:47 PM

nice job!

**Shadam** · 03-24-2011, 07:44 PM

the heli drop is deff my prefered method of approach.
nice work boys !!!

**Grape_Ape** · 03-24-2011, 07:49 PM

This is not quite Liberty Mountain, PA...but it'll do.

**lynchdogger** · 03-24-2011, 07:54 PM

Gideee up!

**Huckin eh?** · 03-24-2011, 08:34 PM

Heli Drops ruuuule.

Nice work dudes.

forest · 03-24-2011, 08:35 PM

solid work right there.

CG · 03-24-2011, 08:42 PM

wowzers, looks like some fun there

**Cheesestoff** · 03-25-2011, 09:18 AM

Rad Toby,

looks like fatherhood hasn't slowed you down too much

**powder11** · 03-25-2011, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Cheesestoff

Rad Toby,

looks like fatherhood hasn't slowed you down too much

Nope, I'm lucky to have an awesome wife who understands that I've got to get out and do my thing while I still can!

Shaun talked to Foon. Says he never skied Twin Goat, only took photos. He doesn't think anyone else had skied it up to now, so our 1st descent claim is back on. Not that it means all that much anyway, but being relatively close to home, it makes it that much more satisfying to score a line like that.

**shirk** · 03-25-2011, 11:59 AM

That is a kick ass line. Good work.

**Jordo** · 03-25-2011, 12:01 PM

Nice fucking line. So much killer terrain down the east side of the lake.

**point it** · 03-25-2011, 12:24 PM

wow... really asthetic line

**kalisto** · 03-25-2011, 12:28 PM

Sick line, sweet pictures.

Just another day in the life...

**postman22** · 03-25-2011, 01:29 PM

i'm still confused on what you skied in that heli shot. want to point a red arrow at it?

**Spark** · 03-25-2011, 03:35 PM

Wow! Congrats to you and your crew! Also, love the smiles all around.

**powder11** · 03-26-2011, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by postman22

i'm still confused on what you skied in that heli shot. want to point a red arrow at it?

only if you email me the powerpoint presentation on adding red arrows

**goldenboy** · 03-30-2011, 01:34 PM

Bump back to the first page, because this is pretty cool.

**shafty85** · 03-30-2011, 03:51 PM

That's sweeeeeeet

Is this the line you took?

**adimmen** · 03-30-2011, 05:00 PM

looks good

**powder11** · 03-31-2011, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by shafty85

That's sweeeeeeet

Is this the line you took?

Nope, we skied the line lookers left, running paralell all zee way down zee mtn. The one you redlined is up next on the hit list.

**shafty85** · 03-31-2011, 03:44 PM

Oh - sweet line

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