Calum - Paul Ridge
Skiing the south side of Paul Ridge, instead of the usual north side. Deep snow, lighter than usual, and huge hemlock trees made for a nice 300m descent. In theory one could continue on the west side of the creek drainage and pop out on the road at the switchback by the settlement at Ring Creek, but who knows how dense the forest gets in there…
Paul Ridge Route in Google Earth
This was the same day of the Boulder Mountain avalanche incident. The reports for the South Coast were just as scary as South Columbia, yet we were still able to have a fun, safe day in the backcountry by using common sense and managing the risk. We don’t need the government to regulate the backcountry – we have the Darwin Awards for that.
