With limited snow low down, but adequate coverage up high, Steve and I headed out to the Black Tusk area, which looked like it was fairly filled in. The original plan was to ski the steep north facing bowls on the front to the Tusk, but when we approached another objective caught our eye.
We bungied the skis onto the bikes at the end of the Cheakamus FSR. Reaching the Microwave towers took about 4 hours, which is longer than it has ever taken us before, but we attribute that to biking slower with all the added weight, plus there was a hefty section which was too snowy to bike but too rocky to skin, so that part had to be walked.
After 4 hours we reach the microwave towers and decide to ski this interesting feature here. Kim Kardashian had been all over the news earlier in the week, so we decided to name the couloir after her.
The line was short but pretty steep and cool looking. There was 400m of skiable terrain below the couloir, but there was not enough snow to ski that at this time. I doubt the couloir gets skied that often, as it is kind of out of the way, but there was a cairn on top of the lookers left buttcheek, so it has seen a few summer visitors at least.
Steve in front of the Tusk on the way home. This shot was a real like-bomb on his Facebook….
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