Monday, April 19, 2010

when i say mission...

it's been amazing around whistler lately! rode pow for over 2 weeks straight. it's been awesome, lots of time on the hill and in the backcountry exploring new terrain.

One of my missions, involved 2 days for me. I went up solo one day to check out a new zone and spent a few hours wandering up to treeline before heading down. The area looked awesome and the next day i grabbed a crew consisting of dave basterechea, kyle wolochatiuk and his girlfriend krista for a little mission to summit this zone.

To make a 12+ hour mission story short, we summited after 6-7 hours of climbing, we toured straight up heli tracks, dropped into the unknown and shredded it by headlamp, got some awesome powder turns in, found pillow lines, krista found a hole, and we all had a great time.

Some of my pics aren't loading up properly so i've got a few from kyle and dave.
more to come
jl


kyle in the trees


kyle and me way down there, watching dave head straight up heli tracks


me cruisin up the last pitch

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no more skis!


garibaldi in the background, i have a totally different view of this mtn from my bedroom


hi!


dave making his way over to the spine


dropping into my line


me shreddin


dave's view of me


kyle's view


kyle on the spine line


me riding down. kyle and dave rode the sunny spine in the back, and i rode the face just lookers left


we found some pillows in the trees


krista got eaten by a pillow hole in the dark


shredding by headlamp!


kyle taking a break near the end of a long day.

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