Report from January 18, 2025

On Saturday we decided we needed to ski in the sun.

7ºF at the car.

To be clear, it’s kinda once in a lifetime here right now with clear skis and low avalanche danger in January.

This is a rare combination here.

We ran into an old friend in the parking lot and changed our plans to piggyback onto his tour.

We ended up in a classic BC zone that I’d never been to before.

We ventured into the alpine to start but we ran into a windslab we didn’t like.

Clouds were swirling around the peak making visibility dangerous so it wasn’t a big loss.

We skied some happy powder in the sunshine then journeyed to the classic zone.

Of course clouds rolled in just before we dropped in.

It’s so hard to ski in the sunshine in BC in January…

But the vis wasn’t bad and you could even see a shadow or two occasionally. 

The run was delicious.

Fast powder on a firmer layer on terrific terrain that just keeps rolling until it ends in a pillow cliff.

We were able to navigate the cliff and find incredible skiing nearly top to bottom (the pillow cliff was crusty and bad from the sun).

I felt stupendous in the parking lot at the bottom of the ski.

4,500-vertical-feet, 7.7-miles, 6.5 hours.

Q:  “Is it the journey or the destination?”

A:  “Neither, it’s the company.”

Thanks, Aaron, Toddy, and Ben for a spectacular day in the mountains.

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