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Topic: january 7, 2010; slalok, north face (Read 1092 times)
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skykilo
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skied north face of slalok with jason, kyle, and new friend paul yesterday. stayed at keith's hut the previous night. nice consolidated powder in the trees. various types of wind-affected snow in the alpine, with the occasional isolated hard slab. no problem crossing matier glacier; gaining the ridge to the top of slalok featured a wee spot of suspect hollow snow over the rocks in a thought-provoking position, but the snow itself felt reassuringly dense there.
north face of slalok offers a beautiful fall line of 1000 m (+) to the upper joffre lake. then a quick run to the highway from there. conditions were as follows: windpacked pow, winpacked pow over slab, slab over slab, and finally pristine powder. slabs were all large and "stable enough."
thanks for a great day, everybody. here's a nice picture of the route:
http://danielwheeler.smugmug.com/Canada/Sea-to-Sky-British-Columbia/Upper-Joffre-Lake/63517732_8rAHy-L-1.jpg
(now at least my version exists before other styles of descriptions hit the tubes.)
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danhelmstadter
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noiyce, looks a little bony in your picture, global warming i guess eh?
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toby_tortorelli
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Slalok's Stonecrop Face was one of the highlights of my 07-08 ski season. Top to bottom blower pow!!! Brings back good memories. Nice job.
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« Last Edit: 01/25/10, 08:32 AM by TobyT »
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