Photo TR: 4 days of touring in WA aka done with fall quarter

[brutah]

couple shots of kevino from our outing to colchuck on xmas eve

feeling small


after switching off trail breaking duties for the previous 7 hours, kevin pulled the man card and broke trail for the last hour and a half up the glacier


ski action


stoked!


thanks for the cascade intro and have fun in canada you son'ofabitch!

[kevino]

bump for canada stoke coming soon

[LightRanger]

Sick shots man. I have an LX-5. Great camera.

You go to Gonzaga? Liking the team this year (except when they play SCU on Saturday).

[F.D.V.]

I thought colleges ran on semesters, not quarters?

Nice stoke!!!

[kevino]

Just got back from 5 days, 4 nights at keith's hut outside of Pemberton, BC. Quite the area! Really great experience with some good people. Good weather and snow conditions helps too.

Some skiing related highlights: aussie coulouir on joffre, NE and SW faces of vantage peak, and north face of slalock.

Non-skiing related highlights: champagne in a can, spooning with 20 of my closest friends in the hut's loft (aka the shitshow that is a public hut), etc.

Enough text, PICTURES:

Dreamy pow to warm up the legs


booting up the aussie


ripping the upper


Juya straight lining the exit!


Not too shabby of a line


Megan stoked!


Sunrise of Joffre


Uh yeah, that should keep up busy for a while


Sunshine + powder!


Sunrise on the anniversy glacier


Exposed boot pack and skin up the ridge on slalock


Juya ripping up the upper face


Megan enjoying the start of a 3000'+ descent


Dave opening up on the lower apron


Megan and Juya celebrating - the run starts off the summit in the upper right corner, through the cliffs on the skiers left - awesome


Back up we go






Now back to school. Hope y'all enjoyed the show.

[MashedPotatoes]

winning!

[alpinevibes]

really impressive stuff kevino and krew

[kevino]

A sweet sequence of shots of me on the upper north face of slalock (photo by Juya Ghanaie)

[Fortune_Cookie]

Thanks for the stoke. I wanna tour with YOU!

[bumski]

You the man Kevin! Lining up a pretty sick winter and it's only the beginning!

[kevino]

Thanks all, it sure has been a fun last couple of weeks. Kyle, I'm back in Spokane so lets ski some more.

Fortune Cookie, name the time and place and lets go skiing.

[spook]

probably a stupid question, but in the ninth photo in your original post i think one of you is skiing with what looks to be a small slide to your right. is that something that would be considered indicative of potential hazards where you were? lots of great shots.

[_Aaron_]

Noice!

789

[kevino]

probably a stupid question, but in the ninth photo in your original post i think one of you is skiing with what looks to be a small slide to your right. is that something that would be considered indicative of potential hazards where you were? lots of great shots.

If I'm looking at the same photo you are, that color difference is actually a cloud bank rolling in and filtering sun light. That was kind of the story of the day - clearing on the up, cloudy on the down.

[Axelerate]

Nice! That's a lot of good lines you guys hit up there.
And the Keith's hut can be a sweaty damp place sometimes... but that happens when the approach is that quick.

[Bromontana]

love the exposure/scale in a lot of the pics. Really shows how burly the Cascades are. nice work

[kevino]

speaking of the hut, if anyone goes up there i left a pair of flylow leather gloves, size medium. So help yourself!

[spook]

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this is the one i was talking about

[Zeedashbo]

That's called a light sluff

[auvgeek]

haha Zak one of these days you'll WANT to do a 12 hour sufferthon!

Oh, I'm always game for a 12-hour sufferthon (once the boot issues are sorted out). Only problem is you'll be miles ahead when the 12 hours are up...

Gonna work on the fitness and maybe we'll do something gnarly when you're on spring break.

Glad that Canadia trip worked out well for ya. Thanks for bringing the stoke!

[kevino]

That's called a light sluff

This.

Zak, I actually found out about another area up there to explore for a local, so let me know when you're game. And PM me your email when you get a chance.