Saturday, December 19, 2015

Avalanche Crest

We had never ever skied Avalanche Crest before. Whaaat? Odd because it's spectacular, popular, and very accessible.



We began by exploring this seemingly benign moraine between Avalanche and Eagle.



Pow! Crunch! Scraape! It was a freakin' mine field of talus lurking just below the surface. Three of us had varying amounts of Ptex hanging in flappy strips off the bottom of our skis.

Back up to the ridge to overlook the highway and our cars parked far below.



A good long run but it still felt a little early season with plenty of trees sticking up to catch the unwary.



The lower few hundred metres was full-combat skiing.



But we survived and were happy to have visited a new yet familiar place.

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