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May 01, 2011, Mt. Philistine, North Couloir

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Posted by Atraslin on 5/4/11 9:46am
Mt.Philistine North Couloir

The trip started with the usual offroading on some random logging road.
Alex had to spot me on the drive, because I was driving a 91 Honda civic and I
had about half an inch of travel. Many a cars have been ruined on these same
drives.Maddy assured me it would be okay. They drive these roads in these cars
all the time in Costa Rica.

I was stoked to be going into a new area, but I wasn€™t too stoked on the 40 degree
side hilling approach. I thought I was ski touring on the dark side of Mt.Seymour.
notorious for steep mountain biking on the North Shore.

We made it to the cabin which was the North Creek, cabin but I thought I was
going to the Pebble creek cabin. Well at least I knew the name of the peak.
Mike couldn€™t remember the name of it as we we€™re boot packing up.

Aside from the looming overhead crevasses on the climb and the swimming up hill travel at the top of the couloir.
The 3000 foot ski descent was epic, especially the top, which was knee deep powder.

Philistine: Photo courtesy Lee Lau


Maddy and Alex climbing up


Mike climbing


Mike and Maddy swimming below the cornice.


Mike raising his arms after the Canucks win the Stanley Cup, ski the line.


Skiers: Andy Traslin, Mike Traslin, Alex Gibbs, Maddy Armstrong
Winning!! Nice TR.

Thanks for sharing....Trying to keep up with you guys left me out of breath....I could not focus on remembering the name of the mountain....

Thanks for the boot track.....

I think you meant lurking cornice above......

Cool line. I love that picture of Mike at the bottom!

Mike is predicting a Canucks championship in that last awesome shot. Nice work, guys!

That pic from Lee sure is dramatic. Nice work!

Beautiful line.  Way to get after it boys!

Wow!  Another reason to move to Canada...

Well I hope the Canucks win the cup this year, but anything can happen.
Kinda like the Seahawks, they make it to the final but still haven't won the
championship.

I made a little video just documenting the day to some music.

http://youtu.be/mJoXqAdWVQ8

Great TR, excellent write up, and beautiful photos, however I'm almost convinced that this story may be a fiction based on the account of the upside down crevasses.  ;)

Wow, that first pic is Epic!...and the last one sums it up. Great TR. Thanks guys

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