With a tip of the hat to Gabriel Garcia Marquez here's an attempt to put up some pretty and hopefully distracting ski pics
Late February - Rogers Pass road tripIt’s really no secret that the Whistler/Blackcomb season started poorly. That’s part of the reason Sharon and I left our home confines of the Coast Mountains and migrated to Interior BC, Revelstoke Mountain Resort and Kicking Horse for the best part of December and January. But there’s so much more than resort skiing and there’s the holy grail. The mecca of ski touring that we Canadians take for granted.
Of course that’s Rogers Pass.
Puff Daddy and Rogers Run
Sharon, Trace, Doug and I went up to ski off either Rogers Run or Puff Daddy on BC’s family day long weekend. It’s been a long long time since we’ve been up the Grizzly Shoulder skintrack and it’s about as rowdy and poorly set as I remember it with the strangest of terrain choices.
After no less than 82 kick turns and 6 veggie-belay assists on various steep sections we were at the top. Family Day long weekend is very popular and my decade-old memories of untouched powder appeared to be obsolete. Temperatures were mellow (just below freezing) and skies were broken so skiing was going to be awfully good no matter if we crossed tracks.
We eventually took a designer route that involved skiing down part of Rogers Run; coming back up over to Puff Daddy then sneaking pillows and pow that split Hermit West and Puff Daddy. After shaking a group of no less than six splitboarders that appeared to be stalking us in an attempt to figure out if we knew a “cool untouched line bro” we made it back to the Discovery Centre having dodged the unexpected objective hazard of groups skiing above us.
To make an entertaining day even better Doug then fulfilled a long-term dream of taking a picture with the Canadian Forces operating a howitzer for training. Thanks for such good spirits guys and hope we didn’t slow your teardown.
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