Day Trip BC
Monday, 19 July 2010 10:13
Saturday - light winds, sunshine and fresh snow two days before. I needed little convincing to give the school holiday crowds at the resort a miss and head back country. There were predictions of strong winds on Sunday so I planned for a quick day trip. We've had very little snow this season so I was unsure weather I was going to be able to skin out from guthega, but in the end there was plenty. I followed the well trodden track out to Illawong bridge.
(you can see Mt Twynam on the horizon, it's the round one in the middle.)
Made it out to the ridge that runs out to Watsons Crags about lunch time. Two guys that my path had been crossing all day had already skied down. I followed a similar line and then joined them for another run. We found some pretty nice snow on the second run which was a real highlight. Well that, and you can't beat the scenery.
(This is what we'd come to ski. The north face down into Watsons Cr.)
But alas, for every down hill there is always the going back up. This is where the body decided it had enough, so I took it slow and steady getting back out.
(skinning out of watsons creek)
Took me over an hour and a half to get back to the top of Twynam. This didn't really bother me coz its then a quick / fun ski back down to Illawong. Followed by the arduous final slog back out to guthega.
Took 8hrs, awesome day.
