After running around the Spearhead for a couple of days, Wilkes and I embarked on a quest to find pow lines off Fissile. The steeper lines (eg NE face, Elevator Shaft, Summit Chute) looked good but weren’t primed for silk-smooth. I’d actually never skied the tourist baby lines off Fissile (Banana Chute, NW aka Main Face). These turned out to hold the best snow so that’s what we skied.
Moraine off the vestigial Fissile Glacier at the start of the Banana bootpack. Someone dug a pit at the moraine base!!!
Love to know wtf for what they were looking
Wilkes at the start of the Banana Chute face (why is it a Chute? Its a face)
Down Banana Chute then a small bootpack to the top of Psycho Chute
Jackpot!! The top of Psycho Chute
Snow was highly adequate
Psycho Chute before – then after
Going up for another lap and it was getting a tad warm. Sometime this weekend some tourons got involved in a Sz 3 off the S aspects of Piccolo
Up and over from Fissile-Whirlwind Col then on Fissile Pk’s ridgeline for a magnificent view of the Overlord and Whirlwind Glaciers
We looked at Fissile like a Missile. Probably would’ve been good snow but (1) I’d skied it before; and (2) it would’ve made us late for the Can – US hockey game
Heading over to Fissile Pk – NE face was wind-hammered
Bro-brah on Fissile Pk
Dropping in off the peak
Wilkes entering the NW face
Gorgeous snow and views down the NW face
Thanks again Fissile! You’re pretty cool for a slackcountry mountain
Off to slay Mt Banana Split at Splitz Grill (along with 2 Italian Sausage Burger Combos and sadly watch the US thump Canada in hockey)
Fissile Laps (in red)
Nice easy day (1355m climbing) – I made it out the Singing Pass luge run in 55 mins; the splitter took a bit more then 2 hours and two falls into icy creeks
Spearhead Day 3 from Tyler Wilkes on Vimeo.