Category: Ski Mountaineering
Off piste ski (and snowboard) mountaineering and touring.
Today Bev, Rob MacKenzie and I skied to a subsidiary summit (2820 m) of Crowfoot Mountain, which is located immediately east of the Wapta Icefields...
Yesterday Andy Paul and I bagged White Pyramid (3275m), a ski mountaineering gem in the Canadian Rockies...
Now is the high season for ski mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies...
We thought we only had a short day today (we had a meeting at 6pm), so we opted for a ski tour at Contamine.
It snowed all day yesterday while we worked, so we knew today there would be some awesome off-piste powder skiing to be had...
We had great plans today - catching the early télégraphique, ski across to the Tour Ronde, tick the North Face and ski the Mer de Glace... However, news of a fatality on that mountain the day before put us off somewhat...
We'd hoped to ski the Vallée Blanche this year but had thought we'd missed our chance. But Friday's fresh snow and Saturday's skiing practice set us up for one of the super classic off-piste descents of the alps.
We crunched our breakfast this morning - un pain avec abricot confiture - and something crunched harder than I expected. I'd broken my tooth! But nothing was going to stop play today...
Today's sports plan was to ski into the Gausta area...
