BC powder turns

I don't even know the name of this run, but Aaron knew about it from previous snomobile trips out of Salmon la Sac. We headed past the van Epps turnoff on the road and stopped near the top. We skinned up about 1000' to the top, and got three great runs in. Aaron provided the eye-candy I was camera boy. The third shot here is looking down the first chute from the top of the ridge.

This last one is looking North (or NE) up the valley.

Cabin Run pics

Here's the less steep line in the middle of the run.

Here's the view of Cathedral Rock, and you can see Mt. Daniel in the background.

This is the skin track up through the woods.

Cabin Run

You can cover the 13 miles from the Salmon La Sac snopark to the end of the groomed road in about 20 minutes on a fast snowmobile! The SkiDoo Summit with an 800cc Rotax engine gets that sled to 70 mph in about 5 seconds - they're really incredible machines.

Aaron and I headed out under partly cloudy skies and were skinning up the ridgeline by 10am. The first 1000' were through the trees before you break out into some steeper and more open terrain. By about 1:00 we made the top and took a pretty steep line down. There was about 8 inches of unconsolidated snow on top of the rain crust from last weekend. It was about 25 degrees, so light snow for Washington. We managed to get two great runs in before heading back to the bottom.

Image posting doesn't seem to be working on Blogger, I'll try again tomorrow.