The Coquihala is a toll road and the miserable $10 toll is collected at the halfway point. Zoa is just west of the toll booth which means that to visit Zoa from Kelowna you must pass through and pay the toll twice (the swines).
There had been a freeze-thaw cycle here since since the last snowfall and there wasn't a whole lot of snow at the trailhead.
Part of the route up to Zoa follows a decommissioned power line right of way. It's visible in this photo of Brenda. Brenda said I shouldn't post this photo cuz she looks snotty, so here it is...
Sledders had been driving all over the track when the snow was wet. It had re-frozen into a giant mess of breakable crust, death cookies, and corrugated hard pack. Oh man it was beyond belief on the ski out.
Above 1700m or so we got above the death crust and the snow was very consolidated with about 5-10cm of fresh snow on top. After digging a pit this was the first slope that we skied.
The rest of the terrain is pretty much the same. It's only about 400m run and we skied it several times. Apparently there is a much longer run on the opposite side of the summit (behind where this photo is taken from).
Battery problems (yet again) so there aren't many interesting photos from today. Here's Brenda sporting the new jacket that some wonderful guy gave her on her birthday last week.
I think this is Yak peak.
The other side of the peak (facing the highway) is a giant dome-like layered slab that looks a lot like New Hampshire's Cannon Cliff. There's a rock route called Yak Crack that I'd love to do some day.
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