British Columbia Backcountry Report: Skiing The Frozen Waterfall Chute, a Steep Wall, & a Pillow Spine

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15 Steep Turns Deep in the Backcountry of British Columbia, Canada

Report from January 24, 2025

On Friday, we got out into the BC backcountry just to look around.

And find sunshine.

We needed sunshine.

Skiing A Beautiful Chute Complete With Frozen Waterfall in British Columbia, Canada

So we started walking in the shade and 7ºF temps.

And we kept walking in the shade and cold temps for hours…

After 3 and a half hours photons from our nearest start finally tickled our skin.

Skiing Lower Mountain Pillow Spines in British Columbia, Canada

I now fully understand why ancient cultures worshiped the sun.

It’s the root and cause of all life on Earth.

It really is our God, our reason for being that we can’t live without it.

Creek. image: snowbrains

I ruminated on this for another hour before we hit our summit for the day.

It was gorgeous up there but we wanted more.

Aaron saw a little notch on the mountain just across the way with steep terrain and he couldn’t resist.

Glacier life. image: snowbrains

All he does is make good calls so I followed along.

It was a good call.

The top was steep and sluffy with one long donger in the runout.

Fun terrain. image: snowbrains

We both thrashed down and popped off the donger in celebration.

From there we cut over to a bizarre frozen waterfall-filled chute we’d seen a week earlier from an oblique angle.

We’d planned on skiing it together but Aaron fell over in the flat light and I kept going.

Mini-spine. image: snowbrains

It was beautiful.

The runout was filled with sunshine, dongers, and happiness.

We assumed it was pretty much all over but we were wrong.

Blue ice. image: snowbrains

Wild, low-angle, pillow spines gracefully lowered us down to the valley floor.

Our favorite tour of the month?

Maybe so…

Thanks, BC!

Photos

Aaron up. image: snowbrains
Everest! image: snowbrains
Waterfall. image: snowbrains
Creek Everest. image: snowbrains
Rocks are leaking. image: snowbrains
Forest. image: snowbrains
Smoking mountains. image: snowbrains
Glacier travel. image: snowbrains
Aaron leader. image: snowbrains
Knob. image: snowbrains
Scary mountains. image: snowbrains
Fun terrain. image: snowbrains
Glacier walk. image: snowbrains
Aaron and Everest. image: snowbrains
Me and Aaron. image: snowbrains
Aaron crushing low pow. image: snowbrains
Miles in the frozen waterfall chute. image: snowbrains
Aaron leading out. image: snowbrains
Up high and steep. image: snowbrains
Glacier zigzags. image: snowbrains
Pillow spine lowers. image: snowbrains
Glacier. image: snowbrains
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