With this high pressure system upon us it seemed like a lot of people were taking advantage of the visibility to get out to the Blackcomb Backcountry! Aaron joined us and brought along his bivy and spent the night at the Decker/Trorey col. The snow up high was surprisingly good! We were expected to only tour, we didn’t expect the great pow!
Garmin map of Saturday ( yellow ) and Sunday’s ( pink ) tour.
The masses heading out. They weren’t running the T-bars this early in the season so everyone had to skin up or bootback from here.
Fred not used to this skinning thing!
The Views were stellar as usual! Fissile teasing Lee in the distance.
East Col looking towards Fissile!
Skiing down from East Col to Circle Lake was boney as usual…
but the snow was good!
Skinning up Decker.
View of Circle lake and the Spearhead in the back.
Lee bootpacking the last steep pitch up Decker.
Then there were 10!
Lets go get first tracks!
The snow was creamy!
Sharon
If not dreamy!
Aaron!
Heading up towards Spearhead where the people weren’t.
Jameson, Sharon!
Since the snow was good we decided to hit this slope enroute.
Sharon
Lee
Jameson
Jameson
Lee!
Skinning back up.
Lee, Sharon, Jameson
Bootpacking up the Spearhead
Sharon
Then Aaron went back to dig a snow pit on Decker and we headed up to Husume just as the sun was starting to go down.
Jameson!
Looking down Husume towards Blackcomb Glacier.
Lee’s ski wants to go!
Looking back up Husume.
Sharon
Sunset on Blackcomb Glacier.
goggles don’t work so well here
Alpenglow on Trorey, Pattison and Tremor.
Aaron’s pic
Cool Sunset shot!
Aaron’s pic
Sunset on the Blackcomb Rescue road.
Jameson’s Pic
Google Earth Image of our tour!
