Ah Brandywine… Apparently a Sea to Sky touring classic a decade ago before the popularisation of sleds. And its easy to see why. It's close to Whistler, the access is easy, and the terrain is, as Peter Griffin would say, Freakin' Sweet. I've actually skied here several times before, and I regularly visit the area in the summer too, it's a great zone. Usually if I've skied something before I like to make sure the next time I ski it is in better conditions than previously. The sky was a little milky on this day so we didn't get all time blue bird, but the snow had still softened up nicely in time for the descent.
8am March 18th 2015, and we drove all the way to the Brandywine Cabin.
We had to walk a short ways along the road on the dirt, but there was plenty of snow by the time we reached the meadows.
Long lens on Black Tusk
Vince skinning up the ridge with the Brew Range behind.
Vince and Link on the ridge with Mt Fee and Chocolate Bowl behind.
Pretty sure these are the spines that Abma and Douglas hit in the PBP movie Reasons.
The top 50m was socked in, but all 3 of us made it to the summit cairn.
I was surprised by the number of sled tracks up up the guts, but the snow had softened up nicely.
Its a long and interesting run back down.
Link back at the bottom. He had no trouble keeping up on either the up or down today.
A short stroll back along the road and we were back at the car in 5.5 hours round trip.
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