Hey P-Dub!

Our old pal P-Dub dropped by just in time for a little dusting of fresh ones.  Yup, drought is over. 

He’s living up near Sun Peaks, and needed to get a change of scenery.  Well, this oughta do.

Ahhh, south Okanagan pow under clear skies.

We nabbed a couple of runs out of bounds, and a LOT of runs inbounds.  The backcountry was it’s usual awesomeness today.

Dubber just started tele-ing this season, and I think the Apex backcountry surprised him.  It’s not real huge in terms of vertical, but it’s steep and tech out there.   Here we are flirting with the rocks in some high 40 degree chutes.

Dub lays ‘er down.

Some other folks finally figured out the north face stash.  Our tracks were still the nicest…

Oh, and Barb got out for a few turns this afternoon too.

The sunshine brought out quite a few locals to the afternoon sun pit session.

Including a few very well groomed ‘staches.  They take those things seriously around here.  That is a verifiable non-ironic lip insulator right there.

Drought

A week of no snow?  Well, I guess I can handle it.  It’s been pretty foggy all winter, some visibility is nice.

Another short tour today, just for the helluvit.  It’s nice at 7200’ today.

A few slednecks are out, but that’s about all.

No shortage of untracked around, at least.

..and yet another set of tracks down that same north face.  Every week, I’ve got the only tracks out there.  I actually boot packed (no skins) today, and it took all of half an hour to get over there.

Chevy on the Bunny Hill

Something like 6 runs for the little girl on the bunny hill today.  She’s not quite on her own yet, but she’s getting close.

She’s getting a bit of a carve there.  You can even see some snow spraying up from the edges (plastic ones though they might be).

I got this pic of some random competitor at the Nor-Am bump comp going on.  I was hitting up some pocket pow inbounds, and popped out of the trees just in time to see this guy throw down a full/full in the bumps.  I can’t get over the level of skiing going on around here.

Ummm…make your own caption.  I can’t do this one justice.

In case you’ve been wondering why I’ve been showing so much skiing and not biking, here’s your answer.