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.