Roe yer Boat trees....

After a late night enjoying Christmas festivities Danielle and I headed out to a local zone that was sure to deliver what we were looking for. Ross met us a little later in the day to help with the up-track. It'll be tough to beat the three 600m run December face shots!

                 

Beers at our place....

Brohm Roop....

It's getting deep in the mountains above Squamish. I joined Andy and Paul early Saturday for a deep day on the lower slopes of Garibaldi.

     

The Sun God of Pemberton....

I was left wanting a lot more after all the work we put in breaking trail to the sun God so Danielle and I packed up and headed back to the Birkenhead early Sat am. As we left Squamish the weather was bluebird and the temps were cold!

The drive was scenic....

This time we were at the base of the mountain within 30 min of the truck!

It was only 10:30am and we were in the alpine!

   
We crossed some pretty aggressive slopes above Cerulean Lake with confidence in the snowpack.

At around noon the weather really started crapping out and a dark milky haze surrounded us.  

Sun God Sun Dog!  

 
We shut her down at 2100m on the North Ridge of the Sun God. With a pretty aggressive early season line in our future we spent some time looking at the snowpack. The good news was the Nov 7th hoar layer was deteriorating and bonding well on the slope we had chosen.      

First big line of the year!

50 deg with interesting glide cracks and mini bergs to air over ....

Back to the pow wagon in the dark.

After another evening of beer and hot-tubbing we awoke early so a reasonable wether day.      

Looking good!

The previous days tracks looked good....

Again the Sun God shone on us!

A great early season week-end!

Breakin the Birkenhead....

It's the time of year when my job starts winding down so mid week missions start becoming a reality. Last Wed night Kurt and I jammed out to the tiny village of Pemberswiss. This location would put us a stones throw away from the gateway to the Sun God.

On route we stopped into the fine Pemberton establishment of Mile 1 and got directions to our objective.  

After a few evening pops we woke early to a bit of a power blizzard.

Within a few km's from the truck it was apparent this was going to be a very deep day. We were the first on the road since the last couple of big storms. At 1200m it was nipple neep!

 
We soon found ourselves below the prize.

Trail breaking was heinous!
       

The aptly named Sun God shone bright....  

 
After 3 hours on the trail and 2 on the sled the short December day caught up to us.

The snow was spectacular...

I've been fortunate to be test piloting a proto-type G3 splitty. All signs point to it being a dominate pow weapon! Photo: Kurt Withers.

 
I'll be back!