Rogers Pass - Grizzly Peak - Feb 12 2009
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and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted.
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Rogers Pass - Grizzly Peak - Feb 12 2009 words
and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted. |
Rogers Run Feb 6th || Swiss Peaks-Hermit Feb 7th || Cheops - STS Couloir Feb 8th || Glacier Crest Feb 9th || Avalanche Glacier Feb 10th || Grizzly Feb 12th ||Youngs Peak Traverse Feb 13th || Cheops South Feb 14th
Plans to ski Forever Young today were thwarted by clouds and snow which was not in the forcast. So we opted to stay close to home check out the Couloir on Grizzly Peak.
Grizzly Peak in the background with Grizzly shoulder - the treed slope in the foreground. Our objective was the couloir without the cliffs below it.
Better view of the couloir and Grizzly Peak.
Once we started getting out of the trees the skinning become steeper and more difficult.
Once off the ridge you can see the final climb up to Grizzly Peak. This would be a 300m boot pack. On regular snow years you can skin up the ridge to lookers right.
Ryan has a rather unorthodox method of getting his skis up the boot pack!
Another group - Alex, Ryan and Tom - caught us on the skin up. We stuck together most of the way up with Alex and Ryan leading the way. Strong boys!
The final push up the boot pack!
Ryan getting ready to go on his svelte Volkle Katana's and Raichle Flexon touring gear!
Tom getting ready to get over to the Couloir. Starting here would put us over some cliffs.
We had one more knoll to get around. Looks worse then it was.
We are now at the top of the Couloir waiting our turn.
Couloir bound we go!
Look mom! A tele skier!
Once down in the safety of the trees with the couloir watching in the background we find some pretty nice pow!
The map of our route.
