Hardrocker

Typical roller-coaster weather from sunny in the teens to complete schlep on Wednesday (this shot was Thursday part way thru the melt) to presently blowing & snowing again. So I took the opportunity to try out a new preset for Lightroom, this one called 'Hardrocker'. Ironic name since I went from that to talking about the weather...

Musha rain dum a doo, dum a da
Musha (snow) dum a doo, dum a da, hey
Musha (ice) dum a doo, dum a da
Musha (schlep) dum a doo, dum a da, yeah

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Hang Time

April 15, 2009 trip up to Sunshine with Eric and a friend. Now that basketball is over Eric is a little more aggressive on the slopes & is willing to play in the terrain parks. I'll just shoot thanks... my landings haven't gotten any smoother with age. I just hit the small ones, this one was labelled 'large'.

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Thunder Mountain

April 11, 2009. Thunder Mountain, hwy 22 at Maycroft (hwy 517), 2367m, 11km return, 960m gain

Coordinated this trip with a couple people from Clubtread along with a few extras. It was a workout but worth it for the views & working out some kinks from generally sitting too much.

There was quite a bit of post-holing, a little bush whack, but mostly traveling along the ridge with a bit of scrambling in places.
Crowsnest Mountain & the Seven Sisters


Overlooking the Oldman River from the last bit of ridge.

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Lizard Powder

So Saturday was a ski day with Eric finally able to strap his still dodgey ankle into a boot. Bill and Robert joined us for what was to be one of our better days to date at Fernie with our choice of soft spring snow all the way to fresh powder after they finished avy control in Lizard bowl.

At one point in the day it struck me that Mike was likely stuck in a stuffy library studying some obscure mathy type thing so we text messaged a picture to him. The resulting reply was unprintable naturally... we had a good laugh at your expense Mike... love ya little buddy! Study hard, I need a place to stay when I'm old remember!
With luck there is still a day or two of spring skiing yet to come but if not this was a hell of a good way to wrap up the ski season.

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