Took some of Sherriff's advice in the previous post and got up high in the Rockies to get a view, a sun burn and ski a little wind sift on a classic rockies line. The facets below tree-line were a little heinous though. Ahhh the Rockies...

Don't give up on her yet out there! With the world falling apart to the west of us we headed into the Rockies this week to do some adventuring...and while we were at it we even slayed some POW! Had an amazing day touring on a glacier and climbing a peak that gave us spectacular views of mt. Columbia, the icefields and all the top peaks as far as the eye could see. Took some visitors out that were completely blown away by the terrain, which always helps pump up the stoke factor for the group...even in our own backyard. Didn't see much for very recent avalanche activity other then the odd size 1 to 1.5 coming out of steep features with daytime warming. Great day in the mountains...keep shreddin and bag some peaks!

Ryan Johannessen submitted these photos of a remote triggered slide in Quartz Creek on Feb. 8th. The slide was triggered from above by a sled on the ridge. Ran on the December 29 surface hoar layer with an average crown depth of 50-80cms. Ryan estimated the slide to be a size 3. Nobody was involved.

The CAA has been rating the danger to be moderate in the Purcells with the caveat that if a slide is triggered it will be large. This is a good scary reminder! View more photos here.

I haven't stopped lately to update, but went for a super quick and efficent hut trip into the purcell's west of invermere last week (Jan 19-20)with a solid group of six. We primarily worked east facing alpine features around the 2800m mark. Not much to report other then we were able to ski steep east alpine features with little to no sluffing in absolutely amazing morning sunlight. We surprisingly saw very little in terms of natural activity in the area, with the exception of a few slides to size 1.5 on north facing features that appeared to result from cornince failure some time during the last storm.

Finally got around to editing this fun-in-the-sun day a couple weeks ago. My first time out there. Hope it won't be the last!