Training Log Archive: bensmith

Adventuring with Carla at Mt Kelly in Manning Park. Beautiful area, though the visibility wasn't so great today. Very deep powder on the north-facing slope after we'd summitted, but we didn't go too far down as we're both pretty bad at skiing in deep stuff, and didn't fancy having to break trail for too long on the way back up to the ridge. The descent on the south side back to the car was more survival skiing, with crust on dust conditions. A good day out in the forest.

Mt Fromme orienteering. It's a new map that's mostly auto-generated with a few random boulders shown. Lovely area though, and some really runnable sections.

I chose fun/forest routes rather than fast routes, and had a blast. Navigation was good. There were a couple of sections where you could take controls in any order (3-8 and 11-15). Unfortunately I was really bad at spotting the boxes, and navigated to both 3 and 11 before realising they were in boxes. So my overall route was sub-optimal and involved way more climb that was necessary.

Bluebird day at Cypress with lovely soft snow. There must be a Pro-D day somewhere as there were lots of kids up there, and the lineups were way longer than expected for a weekday. Stuck to Raven Ridge and Sky Chair.

Lovely afternoon on Cypress. It had snowed in the morning, but was sunny by the time I got up there. Bumped into Stan.