Mt. Carlyle Lodge A TR from 2/13
Packed the bags and headed N for our annual bc hut trip. Left SLC in a freezing rain traffic carnage clusterfuck
the powder p crew was a hour or so behind and got to witness a jeep do the 1800 (thats 5 360's for you non spinny jibby hucky custies) without impacting anything
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Made it to CDL and then over the border to a night in a nice condo @ Red in Rossland.
Skinned up and over to Gray mt. to ski some wind buffed rhime
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This was our first trip to Rossland/Red cool town and resort
headed up to Kaslo to fly in Sun.
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quivers, gear, food booze and other assorted party favors are unloaded weighed and sorted for transport
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nothin like a joint smokin jolly rodger in the doorway to make ya feel @ home for the week
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the hut/lodge is pretty sweet
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nice funtional kitchen w/ running water
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f&b consumption area
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and the terrain
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We came in on a few days of good right side up low density snow w/ little winds
After the legal waivers safety mumbo jumbo we geared up for a short sunday nooner tour.
like graybird skintrack pics? oh i got em:wink:
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Stabilty was pretty decent, there were some buried weak layers, and a couple weeks of high pressure had provided some crusts that the new snow had bonded pretty well to, a lack of significant winds ment cold smokeblowerpow and not a lot of wind slab
We strom skied out the afternoon w/ a couple laps in the sweet tree below the hut to the valley floor.
monday we awoke to the 15 or so cm's that fell overnight on top of the previous days similiar snowfall
well and fried pork nitrate products
I was super stoked that the bro who I'ved shared the majority of my decade of turn earnin bc experiences w/ was able to join us and would have my back
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bwwaaaaaaahhhhhh
but cereally my lurker bro thanks for spendin time behind the wheel, your culinary asskickin, mellow dispatiton, and athletic photosluttin ability and bein a solid bc partner.
the sun peaked out a bit that day and the whole crew headed over to carpenter pass.
Toph and I passed on skiing down the pass to the valley floor and cut a high traverse below prospector peak
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and headed up little prospector
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did a bit of stability checkin while waitin for the mrs. and our most excellent pnw hut bros Rich and I guess it's Dr WD now to skin up from the valley floor
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I picked up a canon g15 p&s for the trip so as not to have to drag the dslr around and overall pretty stoked on it
works pretty well
when ya focus it right anyhow
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hooked up w/ the rest of our crew for some laps in the sheltered prospector/valentine trees
the rest of the team was across the valley in the lumber yard and we could see them rippin sweet lines on our ups
Last lap toph & I headed back to the peak the sun peaked out again and every tgr tr needs at least one the point shot
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it skied well
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the terrain
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day 2 was a trip over towards pyramid peak and the pillow factory known as the rock slide
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the best day skiing as far as snow quality that mixed with graybird storm light ment not a lot of photo sluttin
cool terrain aint gots much pillow terrain back home in wasangles
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mrs. sfb
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after a few laps
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the mrs. Rick DRWD toph and I headed back to the lodge, up, around up, and over to what the hutkeeper described as not named on the map or listed in the run book, but most people manage to find anyway
laboring breakin trail led to great rewards
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Toph
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Rick
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and the spanser/soulmate
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wasn't till later at dinner when the part about 2 people dying on that slide path the 2nd week the hut opened was mentioned.
Which was fine as I doubt my wife would have came with had that part of not on the map been mentioned
That night snow continued to fall and we wondered what hump day would bring.
the canadian weather guessers guessed clearing and warming and sunshine
well they got the warming part right as snow densities changed and the great destroyer of powder the wind came to visit.
A lot err make that most unsheltered terrain was affected wind yesterdays good stablity nowwas suspect w/ loading and slabs present
sheltered subalpine trees still skied well and we dropped to the valley floor
1/2 of us headed over towards motherload basin and the troll trees and the other 1/2 returned to the rockslide area
the shot we skied the previous day
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plenty of goods to be launched in the troll trees
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and some more graybird skin shots
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If I didn't know better I'd swear those two Washintonians like breakin trail:wink:
well the safety team made it home safely before dark
day 4 had the powderpondo crew of to visit long basin and do the humpty dump
and we headed back into carpener to check out 12 mile basin
well i guess ya only get 35 pics per post so
i'll tbcer
