Total Vert so far: 50,650m
Conditions inbounds had been really great this week, so great it was more difficult than usual to find a touring partner. Eventually I relented and spent the Thursday of this week shredding peak chair with my main man Joel. Conditions were stellar and I had a great time ripping fast laps, but by friday I was ready to go walking again.
The weather forecast was slightly uncertain, but eventually we settled on Cayoosh, as it would be great in good visibility, still possible in not so good visibility, and there was still some treeline terrain to work in case of bad visibility. As it turns out we needn't have worried.
At the parking lot we ran into a friend of a friend call Chucky who is in training for his ACMG assistant guides exam, and his friend Alexi, who is training for his ACMG full guide exam. We didn't plan on skiing with them and left the parking lot a little while before they were ready, but before long they caught us up and we ended up skiing together the majority of the day.
Steve checking out the route from near the end of the high approach road (quicker in my opinion than the low road)
Alexi breaks trail towards the main saddle
Steve and Chucky angle across the glacier
Cirque Peak, from the summit
Steve on top
Looking down the seldom skied West Face of Cayoosh. Looks good.
Steve charges 3 turns down the Summit face
Checking out our lines.
Wooooo!
Just a tiny fraction of our many, many turns down Swivel Rocker... That run is seriously long! A tiny word of warning here: If you aim for the most obvious saddle between the north glacier and swivel rocker, you will pop out above the giant cliffs, slightly left of centre in the photo. It is necessary to double back just a little in order to enter the bowl slightly higher up in order to avoid these.
Steve arcs down Swivel Rocker.
And when we got back to the car there were two cute babies hanging out in the back of a truck... weird...
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