Total so far: 10,065m
One of my favourite routes for a snowy day is taking the longer route over the musical bumps (not the shorter, flatter way you would go if rushing out to Fissile) and also taking in the slighter steeper chutes on Russet Ridge. On this day the snow was considerably deeper than expected, although luckily it was surprisingly light, so we were still able to mince out some turns even thou the terrain isn't the steepest around. We did however have to break trail for the entire day, and the ski pen was around 30-40cm, so travel was not the quickest. This was especially noticeable when skinning back up to Cowboy Ridge from the bottom of Russet Ridge, when the ski pen was closer to 50cm. The slow travel meant that we didn't get back on top of Cowboy until around 4pm, which was a little later than planned seeing as it was the shortest day of the year... and to make matters worse, to our dismay we discovered that singing pass had not been trail broken. This was quite worrying, and our heads were filled with thoughts of a long and cold night in a snow cave as we slowly traipsed through the snow on the lower flanks of Oboe in the quickly fading light. To our eternal glee, after about an hour we eventually found other tracks somewhere in between the start of the trail and Oboe creek. Without headlamps (Rookie mistake) we made slow progress down the trail, but there was a bright moon and the trail become wider and wider and we got closer to the resort. Definitely worth it for all the deep pow!
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