Resort skiing (Alpine touring) 2:00:00 [2]
Not sure what time to log for this. Probably skied for a total of 5 hours?
Sunshine Village with Peter and we both hit Delirium Dive for our first time. I've been wanting the check out The Dive for quite a while. It is a double black diamond freeride skiing area with special access conditions. You must ski with a beacon, shovel, probe and partner. Thanks probably to the limited access, the snow doesn't get as skied up. Sunshine had a big dump on Thursday but most of the hill was a little skied off down to hardpack in the turns, with some chopped snow on top of moguls which was a bit hard from probably warming a little and then refreezing. Not super great conditions for a spoiled backcountry powder skier. However, in The Dive the snow was softer, more like soft moguls up top where the terrain concentrated skiers to a smaller area, then chopped powder lower down where it widens out, eventually giving way to chances for a few fresh tracks. A pretty cool experience "in bounds". Even though the Dive was steeper than the rest of the hill, today I found it easier to ski thanks to the softer snow. We did two laps even though it is a bit of a journey requiring three lifts to get back around and up again. It was worth it. I could have gone for one more later in the day but Peter was getting a bit tired. That said, he did ski stronger and better than me.
After our Dive laps, we met up with some friends from Canmore. As a fluke coincidence, one of their friends is my and Flight's strength coach (Ash) from the Repsol Centre. What a surprise! We enjoyed catching up on the lifts and skiing together. We exchanged stories about how impressed we are by Flight :)