Escaping The Crowds In The Backcountry

My father came up this weekend to visit my brother and myself and to ski some in the great north east, so I went to go ski with him over the weekend.  On saturday morning, we woke up to find some really nasty winds all over the place.  Not wanting to deal with the certainly huge crowds at Stowe (with a multitude of lifts being on wind/mechanical hold) and not wanting to deal with the crowds at MRG, we decided to go spend the day doing some mellow touring out in the woods.

My father skinning up.  Gotta give props to a dude in his 50′s who’s still out and getting after it.

After you go up, you come back down.

The snow was great.  Although there wasn’t a tremendous amount of new snow, the snow that was there was very light and fluffy.

Going back in for seconds.

It can get thick in the eastern BC.

It’s even prettier in the forest when it’s snowing.

I like to rip through the woods.

And jump off stuff.

My father coming back down through the woods.

Gearing up for the last lap.

All set to go back down.

Some cool looking sastrugi.

Skiing off into the sunset is always a good way to end the day.

This was a great day and we managed to avoid all the crowds.  The snow was superb too.  All in all, no complaints!