Callaghan Snow Cat Shuttle
Just south west of Whistler, the Callaghan Valley is blessed with dramatically more snow (averaging 50% more) then Whistler due to a slightly different weather flow. If you don’t want to spend the night in the Luxurious Journeyman Lodge and want to check out a new area but don’t want to skin up the 10km you can get a shuttle up as Pat is preparing to do the XC Ski grooming. He will drop you off at Callaghan Lake to provide an opportunity to ski Morning Glory or the Callaghan Lake area before you ski back down one of the XC Ski trails. The cost is $56.50+tax per seat, meeting time – 8:30.
Area Overview
On this day we saw 60-75cm of storm snow compared to 40cm at Whistler Blackcomb. The trail breaking didn’t allow for a lot of exploring, but did give a taste of some of the complex skiing heading towards Callaghan Lake or the tree skiing heading west towards Journeyman Lodge.
8:30 meet as Brad sets up the snow cat.
Alex, Jake and Lars joined us today.
Snow was deep!
Three others were on the cat camping in the area.
Which way do we go?
hmmm looks complex.
Pillows heading towards Callaghan Lake.
Alex was a trail breaking monster! Of course so was Lee but he was happy for the help.
Complex!
Deep
Down some pillows
Down some pillows
Down some pillows
Down some pillows
me not
Heading back up
Down some pillows
Down some pillows
Down some pillows
Down some pillows DPS!
Down some pillows
Pow!
Back on the xc trail for the hour skate out
Back in the dark, you can park outside the gates if you don’t think you’ll be back by 4:15 when they close the gates.
The red lines are our tracks, the green line is the way we’ll climb up next time.