Backcountry

The lifts were working again today so the call was to head up Record Ridge and ski down to a cabin that Presley had been helping with called the Juicy Hut. Have lunch there then head up Mt Roberts and ski back down to the hill.

It would be another day on the couch for Bruce since his ankle wasn't up to it.

Presley and Christine were on their splitboards and Richard was on his skis of course so this time I would be the only one on snowshoes. The morning started off nice blue skys but was due to close in and start snowing this arvo, as it was we got off the hill just in time.

Once again I was the slowest but this time I had a small excuse that I didn't have skis to slide along the flats with. But honestly I don't think it would have made a difference.

The walk up took a good couple of hours. We got some great views of the hill and some of the surrounding mountains of the way up. Also the trees up there were just laden with snow, it was great!

The run down was pretty sweet. Untracked pow through the trees. A decent vertical down too, got in some of my new favourite heelside turns in too. I have overused the the "whiteroom" label in this blog but it could probably be applied here if I needed it to be ;O)

The hut was much smaller than the Teepee hut but it was still cool. All the usual stuff was there, stove, chairs etc. It was also pretty buried in snow! You could probably ski right past it if you weren't looking for it.

We had quick lunch in there and then headed out again.

I was getting pretty tired by this time so I opted to just do a run down from a saddle on the way up to Mt Roberts. The others headed up to the summit.

I had a little moment while getting ready for this run. I put down my board and it almost slid away down the hill. I had to jump at full stretch to grab it but I hadn't zipped up my jacket yet and had to spend the next 5 minutes shaking snow off my fleece! Doh.

The run down was nice but when I got to the Paradise Chair it was closed again. Red has apparently been having a few problems with power this year. So it was a short walk up to the southside road cat track.

The snow had pretty much set in by this time but I had time for one run on the hill so I went down an old favourite, Roots / 3rd Slides. There were still come nice sections in there but my legs were pretty much done so that was it for the day.