On Saturday we joined an ACC group for a trip up to 8812 bowl. It was clear and cold with lots of other skiers up in the Connaught drainage; we certainly weren't going to get first tracks. This is Gerald contemplating a scratchy drop from Bruins Ridge into 8812.
We took a line more to skiers right than usual, found some good snow, and enjoyed the long mellow decent.
Not without incident of course; I found some crust and provided a crowd pleasing face plant for the peanut gallery above us on the ridge. Thankfully not on film.
The highlight of the weekend was running into Val and James. I know James from a trip to the Bugs several years ago. And Val from...I have no idea, through Brian somehow. It was Val's 50th and she was celebrating in style with friends from all over.
On Sunday a diminished group headed back up the valley again. Here's Val enjoying her first day of life at 50.
The day before we had a good view of this line on Video Peak shining in the sun and couldn't resist.
The day had begun clear and sunny but by the time we scrambled to the top of Video the clouds had come in and the visibility wasn't great.
We skied down the front face on Video instead of the one we had originally been interested in. It's a good ski right off the summit but...meh...after the tromp up the valley and the roly-poly decent back down it seems like a long way to go for a few hundred meters of good steep skiing.
Aren't we getting spoiled?
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