Great conditions on a classic Whistler backcountry line.

I had a great day out with Ziff in the backcountry of Blackcomb. What a day! Boxing day was very quiet in Blackcomb backcountry, we saw very few people, likely because of a forecasted strong temperature inversion. Despite the forecast, snow quality remained very good. Ziff and the Onyx bindings. Beautiful weather and mild temps…

A poor avalanche forecast sent a large crowd of us looking for mellow terrain. what we found was a horrible snow conditions, good weather and great company! Check out Grahame’s picts. Check out Dave’s picts. Malcolm heading up Beverley Creek. Finally, the subalpine! Where’s that lake? Julie and Matt talk project management. Rob, now rocking…

Stephen and I checked out the eastern slide path on Mount Frosty. Crossing Lightning Lake towards Mount Frosty. The slide path we skied is directly above Stephen in the photo. Uh Oh, not quite enough snowpack for a good ski track. Skinning in the pleasant Larch forest. Views back to Lightning Lakes. Heading up the…

Florian and I got out for a nice day on bad snow in the Cerise Creek area.

Had a fairly large crew up at the Duffey. Check out Dave’s photos.

What a day! After my less than stellar first day of skiing in the season, I was feeling desperate for a good day in the snow. After watching a week of record setting snowfall from my cubicle I was feeling super keen. I wasn’t alone; as plans were made Friday night it looked like the…

Stephen and I finished off the season with a spring tour up Cypress Peak.

Cam and I made our way out to Little Diamond Head for a spring tour.

Good tour in the Garibaldi Lake are with Doug, John and Dave.

Solo day.

Teamed up with a great crew for some touring in the Callaghlan Lodge area. Took a shuttle into the lodge and spend the day enjoying great terrain and snow.

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Made a nice little loop tour in the Marriott Basin area with Grahame, Mike and Kurt.

Touring on Rohr with GQ and Kubik. Good times with good folk!

Great times touring in Steep Creek off the Duffey.

More Coquihalla touring with Jesse, Stephen and Chris.

Beautiful weather and snow south of border.

Making the occasional Paul Ridge trip…

A quick tour with my friend Pascal on the North Shore.

A nice trip from the Callaghan side up Rainbow Mountain to ski the prominent south facing gully back to 21 Mile Creek.

Nice tour off the Coquihalla heading up into the Needle Peak area and exiting to Two Bears.

More North Shore skiing.

REMers out for Coquihalla ski tour.

Alpine meander with Pascal.

Another Mount Seymour sunrise tour.

Had a great sunrise Trip up Mount Seymour with Jeff and Mike.

Hollyburn was in pretty reasonable condition in January so I made my way up there a number of times with a variety of good folk.