Asulkan Cabin

The plan for the weekend was to spend Friday night at the Asulkan parking lot and to get an early start on Saturday morning perhaps meeting the crew somewhere around the Asulkan Cabin. However the road conditions were diabolical east of Sicamous. There was heavy snow falling and visibility was near zero. It was a white knuckle drive as far as Revelstoke where we decided enough was enough.

Turned out that we weren't the only ones. The pull-off just outside of town was packed with rigs. We threaded our way into a quiet corner and settled in for the night as the snow continued to pile up. I love having a vehicle that we can sleep in.

A pre-dawn start on Saturday had us at the parking lot by first light.



There were already a few early risers departing from the Wheeler hut. We helped them to extricate their cars from the lot (one guy twice) had a quick breakfast and hit the trail by 7:30.

There was some trail breaking but it wasn't too bad. We ran into our group on the steep slope just below the hut. After lightening our packs of some of the overnight gear we joined them for a short run and then continued on up. A quick lunch and there was still just enough time for a quick jaunt above the hut before it got dark. The days are certainly getting longer now.



The strange thing about the Asulkan Cabin this weekend was that there was almost no wind. Virtualy unprecedented. Check the video in this post from November to see what it's normally like up here. A visit to the outhouse was practically a pleasure (if you could overlook the threat from the barrel "stalagmite").

We woke to a beautiful sunny day on Sunday and enjoyed some of the best skiing we've had this season. On this trip we met Dave and Henry and we look forward to skiing with them again some time soon.







Video below and more photos here.