Three Valley Gap

Everyone likes to explore a bit and find some new places to ski. Fred is more committed than most to this sort of endeavor. He's developing quite a reputation for himself. Although this as much for his successes as it is for his...er, failures. I had already been on one adventure (read: epic) with Fred a couple of years ago and just last weekend on another "adventure" he ended up hanging upside down from a barbed wire fence somewhere outside of Salmon Arm. In the dark. After a 12 hour day. I'm not kidding.

Prepared for an epic we drove a short distance up the Wap FSR in Three Valley Gap on the west side of Revelstoke. It was crawling with sledders. We were reluctant to start skiing up the logging road while sleds screamed all around us but it was the only practical route. But it worked out in the end because by the time we started skiing they had all sped off. We didn't see any more sleds for the rest of the day.

Our goal was a ridge that had series of clearings facing the highway. To make a long story short we didn't make it up all the way. As we neared the ridge top it became cold, misty, and windy and the snow was crusty as heck. More evidence of the high winds of last week.

But it was a fun ski back down to the car. No epic. No barbed wire. Nuthin'. We'll probably come back again some time. Nice work Fred.