Kyle Peterson, perfect form, and great snow on the apron below the 2nd chute of the day. Big terrain. Little skier. See him in the notch? This was the 2nd chute we skied today. image: snowbrains

Yesterday, I ran into some buddies from Jackson Hole, WY whilst skiing at Kicking Horse in B.C.

I was successfully able recruit one of them into trying out a short tour in the backcountry adjacent to Kicking Horse today.

We did a run off CPR ridge all together in the 7cms of new snow that fell last night before jumping on the Stairway to Heaven chairlift.

Big terrain. Little skier. See him in the notch? This was the 2nd chute we skied today. image: snowbrains

Kyle Peterson and I hiked up the staircase, walked along the ridge and found a chute I’d scouted from below the previous day. The chute had been well skied but the little bit of new snow on top made it fun.

Below the chute, the apron was powdery and pretty darned dreamy.

video of hacking down the 2nd chute

From the boulders at the bottom, we skinned up the adjacent ridge and had a look into a couple of chutes I’d peeked into the day before.

One of them called to us.

Kyle coming out of the 1st chute. photo: snowbrains

We tiptoe-bootpacked down into the top of the chute, checked the snow, and decided it was a go.

This 2nd chute was sluffy, long, somewhat tight, and damn fun. Once we got low enough to comfortably outrun our sluff, the ski out and apron below were absolutely splendiferous.