There is a particular peak not far from here which grabbed my eye when I first spied it a few years ago. Without a sled access is difficult (by which I mean long) but the thin snowpack at low elevations this year has made it a bit more accessible. Rumour has it that certain local skiing luminaries would quite like to keep this area off the radar. I'm not 100% about how I feel about that kind of attitude with regard to skiing zones, especially since I love sharing my adventures so much, but for now I'm going to take the middle ground and share the photos but with very few descriptions.
Our first view of the objective from the approach road.
Spines and the moon
Some sweet couloir. The terrain up here is bigger than it looks, that couloir is over 600m of vert.
Due to the size of the terrain it took hours to traverse around the big face.
Awesome views.
A sweet shot of what we skied last week.
Once we made the ridge line the going got easier, but it still took about 2 hours to reach the summit from here.
Jamie near the top.
Summit Stoke Selfie.
Crazy terrain on and around the main face.
Big lines
Unskiable gnar
This stuff looks like it could be fun and skiable, but the photo doesn't do justice to the steepness and exposure.
Even the open bottom half of the face is huge.
The line we skied
The whole face in the afternoon sun.
Stoke!
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