Five years ago, when we did our first hut trip to Fairy Meadows, we fell in love with the “hut trip” concept. We’ve since gone to several others, but have been trying each year to get a spot at the Kokanee Hut via the Alpine Club of Canada’s lottery system. We missed it [...]
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Finally Skiing - A Two Tour Weekend
It has been a fairly dismal snow year here in the Pacific Northwest. Our passes to the Snoqualmie resorts lie crisp and fresh, untouched, in our helmets. Amid the organized chaos of involvement with 3 or 4 Search And Rescue teams between the two of us, we’ve had precious little time to use [...]
Ymir Yurt Wars, New Year 2008-9
Better late than never.
After hearing tales of last year’s powdery slopes and moldy yurt walls, Anastasia and I couldn’t pass up the chance to join Andy, Mica, Kirsten, Nate, Todd and Murray (and Tundra, canine wunderkind) on a New Year’s return trip to the Qua Yurt, 20 logging road miles outside Ymir in southeast BC.