Cypress Gnar - Nov 28, 2006
What a beautiful day in our beautiful city.
A beautiful day makes for a clear cold night. Minus 15 in the parking lot and there are actually snowbanks around Cypress Bowl's approach road. John and Carmen prepare.
Pat and Adrian stoked and prepared.
At the tow rope warming hut with Adrian and Sven. Fifteen years ago, in K-ways, rental rear-entries and some no-name Rossi skis, I learned how to ski here in half-snow, half -rain. It hurt so much I almost never came back. Life comes full-circle ...
Going up Collins, Pat gets out the big guns and the tripod to get this awesome time-lapse of the headlamps of the group skinning by and the Vancouver skyline.
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney
The lighting from the runs (not yet opened for night-skiing), the snow-ghosts and the gibbous moon makes the mountain look surreal. Almost like a stage set or some sort of construct in the Bellagio. But it is real and we are there; fifteen minutes drive from the city and no-one there with us on an empty mountain.
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney
View from the top of the City skyline. OK where too now? Pat heads off towards Dunbar. Brian and Jon head towards Whalley. Sharon beelines for City Hall. All ways lead to powder.
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney
Another shot from the same viewpoint but this time with a bit longer exposure
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney
Peak Chair hadn't been opened so Sharon finds powder.
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney
Lee finds powder too.
Photo ~Pat Mulrooney