Asulkan Cabin

A few days at the Asulkan Hut in rather indifferent weather. Wind hammered in the alpine. Good below tree line.

The Overlook

We headed up through the lower Vaux Moraines where a hungry porcupine had been busily chomping away.



Sir Donald dominated the scenery all morning.



To the Overlook Col.



Here we encountered a rather large cornice overhanging the northwest side of the ridge that we hoped to descend. There was a possibility to sneak around the side but it would have meant a high speed entry onto a steep and probably wind loaded slope. So out came the shovels. After a bit of hacking and hewing we had a decent ramp cut for a more controlled entry to the slope.





This turned out to be a wise decision. Our avalanche poodle gingerly eased himself down and promptly triggered a healthy size 1.5+ that pretty much cleared out the slope.







From here we had some great skiing down to the bottom of the Overlook Bowl where we cut across the Illecillewaet Practice Slopes.







And a good time was had by all.

Begbie Shoulder

"How about exploring Begbie Shoulder?", asked Nick.

"Hell yes!", said us.

You need to accept the good and the bad when visiting a place for the first time. The good today was climbing above the inversion layer to reveal blue skies above and a sea of flowing clouds below. The bad was sweating and cursing up The Steepest Thickest Crappiest Skin Track in the World. But we know better for next time. And there will definitely be a next time. What a brilliant day of skiing just 15 minutes from downtown Revelstoke.

Corbin via Bostock

In our quest to visit less travelled areas this season we made the long trek along the Bostock summer trail to Bostock Pass and up towards the NE Ridge of Corbin. Legs, weather, and potentially daylight were in danger of giving out before we could top out on the ridge. But the skiing was good and we saw enough to come back later in the season when the days are longer.