Rohr Ridge

Daily Vert: 1800m

Total Vert So far: 19,715m

Earlier in the week local touring guru Lee Lau had asked if I wanted to ski Cayoosh with him on Friday.  Obviously I jumped at the chance, although by the time Friday rolled around Lee had changed the plan to Rohr Ridge.

I had not skied the South Facing lines on Rohr Ridge before, and the cold temperatures and sunny skies provided excellent skiing.

These lines provide excellent value for money in terms of skiable vert- you are literately making pow turns until you scrap back onto the highway.  As with all south facing lines timing is everything here.  More than 2 sunny days since the last storm and these lines will almost certainly be utter crap.  And as the lines are natural avalanche paths obviously you don't want to jump in them when stability is questionable.

But today Lee called it perfected, and we were treated to extremely deep snow that despite the sunshine had been kept fresh by the extremely (-15) cold temperatures.

I started to take a few bits of video but Lee and Sharon have their duel camera filming process so dialled and efficient I decided to leave it to them.

So here is Lee's edit from that day... what a day it was.

If you aren't familiar with Lee's blog (the only conceivable explanation being that you have been in Antartica for 5 years with your head in a bucket of tar) then I suggest you check it out here:

http://www.leelau.net/sharonandlee/2012-2/