Duffey – Joffre Lakes – Taylor and Tzil

Sunshine Finally! We can ski in the Alpine! We decided to check out some slopes near Joffre Lakes.

March 24 – Taylor and March 25th Tzil

Matier Glacier in the background.

Joffre Lakes slope

Our tracks, snow is still pretty good!

Joffre Lakes Slope.

Rohr in the background.

Potential.

Tried another variation down that was somewhat cliffy…

Elevation Profile

1600m climbing, 8:40hrs

Joffre Lakes – Mar 23, 2012 from Lee Lau on Vimeo.

Tzil March 25 2012

On Sunday we had a bigger group with Stu, Lee, Linda, Glade, Jason and Jimmy. Jimmy has been plagued with back injuries so this was his first day out in three months so we had to go big!

The mist was over Joffre Lakes.

Lee warming up before breaking trail

Joffre third lake with Slalok in the back.

Tzil Climb with the route we took up Taylor in the back.

Skinning up Tzil

Artsy Shot

Tzil Glacier

Getting ready to ski down Tzil!

Sketchy south facing slope we had to skin across.

Tzil in the background

 

Our tracks!

Heartstrings

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1800m climbing, 8:30hrs