Bird Dongin'... the greatest trip up north...

L to R: Gnar-do, The Turnin' German, Mr. Moses, Sena, Ksmear, (Squatting: Nick "Just Send Her" Barton & Messy), the Lumberjack, Keith "the lone wolf", the splitboarder, Gulotta, Metres, me, Toro.

What a trip!  The stars lined up for this one... an amazing crew, unbeatable terrain, decent weather, great conditions, with no major incidents... One for the books.  This one would take too long to document properly, so I'm just going to share some of my favorite pics from the trip and will post some vids later.  Most of these aren't mine.  Photo Credits to Stefan, Toro, Bernard, Sena, Metres, and others...

Metres' TR on TGR.

Enjoying some apres at the River House... our local hangout.  

Getting on to the heli.  

And boom!  Check out that terrain!  

Lou doo melting his face staring at the "Wall of Melting Faces"

We felt pretty rad about here..

Pow pow!

Dave trying to look like a hardcore east coast skate skier.  

Melting Faces with the hut at in the middle...

Desert Run!

Morning gawk session...

Sena approves...

Louie on top of Pano Dome...

22 deg halo

I enjoy staring at this... 

Typical dinner scene.

Two men, one kitchen...

Flyin' Barton doing his thing...

beauty

Stefan with the avy that he and Brad set off on Corn Peak.  

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Going the wrong way...

Big mtns...

Kev & Moses...

The two scariest pillows I skied this week... 

Lou doo showing off his guns getting "yoked"

Yeah Toro!

The selfie selfie...

Keith and Ryan with Melting faces

Dave styling it out...

Barton with the claim

Diggin' lots of pits this week... 

Typical lunch... 

This and 5K of storm skiing did Lou Doo in early that night.  

Louie at the bottom of Desert Run.

Barton going big...

Brad wondering WTF is going on...

Great crew!

Took the heli out in the morning... 

And a few hours later we were back at Kicking Horse for another amazing day (well 1/2 day) at my new favorite resort.

Took Barton and Toro down Dutch Wallet for the last huzzah... 

Recap of the activities...

Day 0 - Morning Run, Flight, Costco, Golden
Day 1 - Kicking Horse (T1 hike 2x)
Day 2 - Kicking Horse day 2 (T2 hike... battery died)
Day 3 - Drive to Staging Area, Heli Ride, Scariest shortest tour ever (tons of slides)
Day 4 - Paradise Ridge with Louie (discovering pillows!)
Day 5 - Avy Peak and sessions on Pano Dome
Day 6 - Desert Run, the Burn, and sessions on Pano
Day 7 - Corn Peak, Margaritaville, Pillows
Day 8 - Margaritaville, Pillows, Corn Chute, Messy's Injury
Day 9 - Two Sandos with winos
Day 10 - Quick Morning lap with Sena, Heli Ride out, Kicking Horse day 3

And my favorite internet sensation of the week: