Training Log Archive: revy

Snow gone from front yard.

Previous years to make it easier to compare…

Mar 29/16
Apr 10/15
Apr 28/14
Apr 9/13
Apr 21/12
May 4/11
Mar 23/10
Apr 22/09
Apr 25/08

Ski touring off the Duffey with CO - was supposed to clear a bit later in the day but wasn't sure how long that would take so waffled a bit on perhaps going to blackcomb instead. Stuck with the original plan though leaving a little later than originally planned which was Mt Matier on the Duffey. It is a bit of a flat trek to get to Keith's Hut. Once there we climbed more steadily eventually gaining the anniversary glacier. Weather was quite variable with occasional decent visibility but frequent snow squalls. It never got really bad and given the forecast clearing trend we kept moving higher. Topped out a few hundred meters below the summit of mt matier. Had thoughts of boot packing to the top and possibly skiing the NW face but given the variable visibility gave it a miss. Of course once we skied down the sun came out in full force. Oh well at least we had good light for the ski down the glacier. The top of the mountain was in clouds again a half hour later so we still would have been in the same poor visibility boat. The run down was actually quite nice. The top five hundred meters had ankle deep powder and then lower down the few cm of fresh on the warmish crust skied rthe ally nicely. Good turns for about 1000 vertical. Ski out was not too bad - got some upper body work in due to double poling. Some fun ski out sections at times. Lots of skiing to explore off the Duffey and might be worth a mid winter trip to check it out.


Coomback 10
Hi5 22
Megawatt 7
Convert 13
Aspect 2
Tonic 5