Whitefish saturday and Fernie today TR
Friday night in Fernie it was pouring rain, thunder and lightning too (in Feb?? weird weather). We decided Big Mt. might be worth going to in the morning, at least you could ski to the bottom of the mountain there. When we got up at 6:00 am there was about 15cm of snow on the ground and puking. We decided to still do Whitefish and let Fernie heal.
We got to Big Mt. at 9:30 and there was about 15cm there also and still putting it down. Bonus we were expecting spring like conditions. It was an excellent day, we got lots of fresh trax. It really amazed me how few people ski off piste there... it seemed almost everyone was doing groomers except us. Anyways here are a couple pics:
Mrs FFH playing in the trees.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33516.jpg
...and yours truely finding some stashes in the wood.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33515.jpg
Me again finding some deep stuff on Bighorn:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33514.jpg
This was on the east rim, We were finding windloaded slopes in here that was waist deep in spots:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33517.jpg
Then this morning we woke up to a total of 52cm of pow in about the last 36 hours. So needless to say Fernie is HEALED!!! Here are some shots from today;
Out side my house this morning:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33518.jpg
This was before:
http://far.redtree.com/2005/medium/craig20050120_4.jpg
...And this is now:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33525.jpg
Tekker traversing over to Snake Ridge:http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33527.jpg
Snake Ridge:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic33526.jpg
