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:

AK 2016 - Vid part 2

Well... this is long overdue... egh?  I should post up some pics from this trip too... ok... on the to do list... 

I've been just busy watching vids like these... then I don't feel like making these vids anymore... sigh.
BUT... it was fun to go back and edit the footage so much later as now I recall the trip a bit better.  

MOONLINE -- Mathieu Bijasson from PVS COMPANY on Vimeo.

AK 2016 - Vid part 1

See... the problem with these big trips is that you come home... you are a week behind in work, house stuff, and life in general.  Then you have a ton of footage to go through that is the last thing in your mind...

Anyway, I've decided to do this in 2 parts since it's taking me too long to go through the whole thing without breaking it up.

TR: Carson to Kirkwood!

summit shot!

Had a great day out with Messy and Lou-Doo.  They were on their way to Mammoth, staying at HvF on the way down, so I caught up with them for the classic tour from Carson Pass to Kirkwood.  We met up at the Kirkwood parking lot around 7 am, and we were back at Carson touring by 8 am.  I was on a bit of a time crunch as I had to be back in the bay by 6 pm, but nevertheless we still skied Crescent Couloir, the sisters, 4th of July peak back to Kirkwood by 1:45 pm... and I made it home by 5:30 pm.  All in all, another great day in the mountains.

This time, everything went smooth... no naked ski descents, no broken necks, no mingie riding chair 3, drunken boy scout troop leaders, etc... unlike last time.  9 years ago.
https://telek.smugmug.com/Backcountry-Skiing/2006-07/Crescent-Couloir-Sisters/

First glance of our first destination.

We saw these boot tracks, so we decided to go up the chute rather than going around...

Messy at the top

Since the main chute (looker's right) was a bit wind buffed and crusty, we decided to check out the middle chute.  This would be the craziest entrance to Crescent... a double with a 40 footer that drops you into the middle of the chute where you have to point it for 500 ft until you reach the apron.  

Louie in the entrance

Forth of July Lake from the Sisters

Skiing the Sisters

our last descent from the shoulder of Melissa Coray.

made it back for this guy... who welcomed me with a 102 fever...