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April 3rd, 2010 | Tags: mountains, skiing, snow | Category: At Play | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 17th, 2010 | Tags: GPS, kmz, skiing, snow, Squamish | Category: At Play | Leave a comment

GPS and Google Earth route for Garibaldi Neve ski traverse.

April 21st, 2009 | Tags: GPS, gpx, kmz, mountains, skiing, snow | Category: At Play | Leave a comment

Hwy99 / Marriot Basin / Wendy Thompson Hut Up/down track is green, a short scouting run is in red, and two laps and a bunch of good turns are marked in blue.   The Whistler ACC has more details about the hut.  In Google Earth I find the best view is one with the Points turned [...]

March 23rd, 2009 | Tags: GPS, gpx, kmz, mountains, skiing, snow | Category: At Play | Leave a comment

Blackcomb / Phalanx / Foon’s Alley / Poop Chutes / Black’s Pub Forgot to turn on the GPS until half way up the East Col.  Otherwise, the route is great:  Up East Col, down onto the Spearhead glacier, boot up ‘Stairmaster’, down one side of Phalanx, back up to the summit, down Foon’s Alley (50 [...]

March 10th, 2009 | Tags: blackcomb, GPS, gpx, kml, skiing | Category: At Play | Leave a comment

Duffey Lake Rd / North Joffre Creek / Cassiope Travel counter clockwise. Cross the creek earlier (futher south) than the track indicates and follow the stream leading west uphill instead of climbing up through the timber. On the way down, at treeline, keeping (skiier’s) left may lead to more open trees. The route shown gets [...]

March 10th, 2009 | Tags: GPS, gpx, kmz, skiing | Category: At Play | Leave a comment