Backcountry skiing (100eight) 5:30:00 [2] 19.0 km (17:22 / km) +1850m 11:41 / km
Super windy overnight and through the day. We headed up the ridge with plan to drop ito Hidden bowl. Man was it windy up there. Quite unpleasant. The slope I wanted to use appeared to have a thin windslab on it. The slabs weren't very reactive but we decided against risking it and dropped down the ridge to a safer entrance. Lots of wind affect in this bowl so changed plans and dropped to the creek. Checked out the avy path on the south side which was also a bit variable so instead of a couple runs here we headed even further south into Baba Yaga. Nice trees here though some sun crust on the steeper slopes. Skiers right would be steeper and drop you into the lower portion of the run better. Can find a few cliffs there though... even further right may be a nice gully. The couloir directly south of our transition spot looked appealing... actually lots of potential skiing here. Back to the ridge and skied down to Qua Creek. A few of us checked out one more zone (fun trees though tight in the middle of the run) while the rest had an adventure finding the correct track back to the lodge... I believe this is the day someone in the group had a rice dong for lunch:)
