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  1. #1
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    Photo TR: Dogtooth Range S traverse

    It's been a pretty crummy winter for snowfall, even here in BC where it always puts out. Which has led to an equally crummy snowpack with all manner of crusts facets and hoars to kill you no matter what aspect you take a liking to. Last week we got a big ol' storm like everyone else, with extreme winds to top it off which we never get here. Temps were getting high and it looked like I wouldn't be working anyways, so a day post storm, Lseed and I started piecing together plans to bag a 3 day traverse I cooked up involving a lot of alpine terrain and a lot of low angle options, with some rad ass options we could scout for next time. Three things defined this traverse; big views, big lines and big naturals. Lots of other big stuff too. Oh, and the sketchiest snowpack I've ever seen.

    A few days post storm, we woke up bright and early and dropped Luke's car at the end point, and took mine 55km down the road to start our climb up.

    The trusty steed that brought us there. Extra maggot points for including Hestras in the pic


    And into the trees and blinding sun


    Then sub-alpine up to the sled schralped triple nipple


    Where we got some big views of some big mountains. The Goodsir Towers in the rockies


    After gaining proper alpine for a while we descended off a very gentle col back into treeline, below some gnar to drool over. Some gnar that can be hit with all of ~100m out-of-the-way vert, and almost no horizontal. Dug the tent in so deep we didn't even need tree shelter


    Big views. Conrad icefield in the Purcells


    Big lines. Luke decides to jettison skis on a slab rock facet farm


    Big naturals


    Looks like she's ready to go.. Just gotta cut this cornice.


    An hour later, results


    Big lines. I'm claiming first descent of this beast


    Big man gets little


    Big views. More Purcell porn


    Big lines. Can easily be hit as part of a traverse, while heading in the right direction the whole time


    Big naturals. Meadow skipping needs to get redefined apparently


    Flattop mountain. We made a valiant effort to ski the rock hard sastrugi with more rock than snow but gave up and booted most to get the summit. A whopping 2477m.


    Looking over the not so flat NE face. Saw a cornice with a mean ol' crack, set my pole 6" away from said crack and bam there she goes. Bombs away from a ton or 2 or cornice.


    And the resulting avalanche. Unfortunately ours didn't go as big as the older ones and hit the lower gully... shucks 450m of vert to end of tongue


    NE face from another angle. Awesome


    After all that cornice fun it was time to ski down to camp


    Where we were attacked by murderous hoar


    Skippity-do-da


    Skippity-day. Flattop on left, camp lake on right.


    My-oh-my, what a gorgeous day. Purcells and Selkirks behind


    Someone shit the bed


    Looking back south with Steamboat mtn barely breaking thru the inversion
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    Looking north with the natural extension to the trip over peak DG25 to ski its badass north face and into 12 mile creek proper. We dropped in here and out this valley as we didn't have stability for anything much over 30*, had probably a dozen settlements by this point.


    Finally some pow pow


    Aint no thang, just another wicked descent you could have while going in the right direction.


    Other than wind and avy effect, this would be a probably nameless fucking picturesque couloir off another nameless rad peak in the Dogs.


    Bit o' bushwhack traverse, and soon we were on good ol' fashioned deactivated logging road.


    Then after descending 10* logging road for half a dozen clicks, time to use that kick wax on the next sled packed 5km.


    In contention for the best view of the trip



    All in all, it was an awesome traverse. My first traverse, and I planned it all myself without following someone else's cookie cutter route. Minor routefinding mishaps, but found the logging roads and outs without any extra nights or doubling back, and found pretty well the most efficient and safe way thru.

    A parting overview shot. Got in at the far far left of shot, on backside of ridge/range, got out at far right in the trees on the treed bench. Pretty impressive to get a look at everything you just skied from a long way back.


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    Sweet trip dude, must be real satisfying planning and finding your own way vs. following the established route.

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    Sick stoke dude!!!

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    Nice TR such awesome terrain. I can't wait for a stable spring snowpack.

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    Wicked man! but did you do it on acid?
    www.skevikskis.com Check em out!

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    Great TR! with good snow that'd be a damn good time!

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    Nice. Looks like a good trip and recon mission for next time.

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    Thanks!

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    "The idea wasnt for me, that I would be the only one that would ever do this. My idea was that everybody should be doing this. At the time nobody was, but this was something thats too much fun to pass up." -Briggs
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    Wear your climbing harness. Attach a big anodized locker to your belay loop so its in prime position to hit your nuts. Double russian Ti icescrews on your side loops positioned for maximal anal rape when you sit down. Then everyone will know your radness
    More stoke, less shit.

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    well shit! you sure are setting the bar high !!!

    I see a sled in your future ...
    We, the RATBAGGERS, formally axcept our duty is to trigger avalaches on all skiers ...

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    big naturals!!!!!!!!!! super sweet trip and trimmings

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    Wicked!!
    Goal: ski in the 2018/19 season

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    Nice work. Way to occupy yourself when the conditions aren't that favourable!

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    Quote Originally Posted by goldenshowers View Post
    Nice work. Way to occupy yourself when the conditions aren't that favourable!
    nicely executed. Great weather window.

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    Sweet Jesus that is the real deal. Wicked stupid. Thanks for the great post squatch.
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    Way to go AS. Quite the journey you have been on since we met! Good to see your pushing yourself and succeeding so well. Thanks for sharing the stoke.
    Man, It was great...

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    nice work lads!

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    Great TR. Motivates me to make the most of a shit year. Once it stops raining at least.

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    Wicked TR and great inspiration to get out and make the best of what we have this year.

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    Good Shit man!! Nice work!
    Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!

    "He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"

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    Nice one!

    Appreciated that you took your time to share this.

    The floggings will continue until morale improves.

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    hell yeah dude. the purcells have always looked rad..
    long live the jahrator

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    I'd give up good snow for that kind of fun. Thanks for bothering to share.
    Life is not lift served.

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    Killer trip dude, thanks for sharing

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    Dude !

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