Tszil mountain 2377m

Not much skiing, but the little of the good was great. And a lot of very bad was really bad. Especially coming down the Joffre lakes trail was a nightmare. Rocks everywhere inviting my skibases to touch them. But I could resist and enjoyed even this part. It was great to be out this season for the first time out of Vancouver on a new mountain for me. Unfortunately Nicolas wasn't able to join me all the way cause his toes were freezing (-17deg.C). I was on the edge with mine but manage to keep warm for the rest of the body. Didn't see many people up there. This season is way beyond the "regular" snow pack which is one of the reasons probably. Hopefully next week 50+ cm will cover some of the rock...

This winter is bad. But not as bad as in...

...Europe :) I always like to compare. So why not with Europe? This winter here sucks. Not enough snow and even not enough rain. Yes RAIN. I love rain. But only if the freezing level is 1000m or lower. When I talked to my friends from back at home, they enjoy spring like weather and no snow winter. Alps are little bit different but 1.2m coverage doesn't sound exciting. So I just keep doing my loops on Seymour and Cypress. But last weekend Cypress was so bad, that I didn't even try the backcountry, as the skiresort had minimum coverage allowing so so to go up on the closed runs. But down I rather choosed the "fake snow" run with crowds :-) Seymour bc is still doing much better although south facing slopes are sowing lots of rocky teeth.

Rice lake loop

This is a classic walk for our family and everybody finds his own. Ela runs for about an hour at lynn creek, Martin enjoys the scenery from the chariot, Jakub trains his bike skills on the descents and me? I am just enjoying. Looking around and I always find something interesting. Awesome Saturdays mornings. How can the feathers freeze? Delicate hourfrost (pretty good for an I phone crap :)