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Burnie Glacier Jan 6 to 13 '23
After a number of years (7 or 8) away from this amazing hut, I got a message suggesting a couple of old buddies were heading in there and another old friend would be the cook for a week in January. I had little choice. I had made a bit of cash over the last year coming temporarily out of retirement for a project and the lure of skiing with old friends in a magical and enormous remote area proved too strong to resist. So off I went.
I should add that my two old buddies were also BC (standing for both backcountry; and our province) studs who I've always feared trying to keep up with (both up and down) so I actually did try to get my daily vertical and horizontal footage up to somewhat respectable levels in the couple of months pre-trip. This meant taking Maisie my dog on lots of walks and ski tours, so super fun training.
The snow conditions were excellent the whole trip, however the same could not be said for the vis. Having said that we were treated to at least one day of incredible visibility and that did lead to some pretty good photo ops in some dramatic terrain. The cooking by my buddy Molly was amazing as usual and hanging with my buddies Al and Lothar in the recently reno-ed hut was great fun. A few US lads rounded out the trip and BamaJohn (the first Alabama powder hound I have had the pleasure to meet) kept me howling basically the whole trip with his drawwwwl. Shit, the dude only had to say the most normal things and I'd break up, when he said anything remotely funny it would literally slay me. The dude was solid on the up and the down. The other 2 yanks rounding out the trip were a bit on the less skilled side on the "down" but certainly Doc Doug was there on the "up" on the days that we skied together (I think 3 days of the 8 we skied).
Skiing with my old pals Al and Lothar was a joy. It had been way too long since we shared laps in the BC together and much hilarity ensued, as well as a respectable (IMHO for old farts) amount of vert.
OK enough fucking drivel. Here's a bunch of shots from the trip.
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BamaJohn getting a mini faceshot
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Me, photo credit Al
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Al
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