Banff Pics

[awf170]

Day 1, Sunshine Village:

Crappy Pics, crappy day.... more to come(including better pics, and better skiing)

 

[awf170]

Day 2, Lake Louise:

Another kinda of crappy day, rock solid snow, and not enough sun to soften it up.

Back Bowls

View from Larch area, truly shows how huge the place is

Just a few rocks

Ptargian(sp) area

Larch area

Hike to stuff above larch, was going to skin up to it but wasn't open

Some stuff off the ptargian(sp) area(also the rest of the pics are from that same area)

 

[awf170]

more pics from Lake Louise because I only allowed 10 per post

 

[awf170]

Day 3, Sunshine Village:

Too epic to take any pics, had the camera on me the whole time, but just couldn't stop skiing. Snow report said 17cm(6 inches) but felt like 1-2 ft in most spots. Skied laps on Standish quad the whole day. Standish is pretty much a giant natural terrian park, unlimted amounts of 5-15 ft drops. Amazing.

 

[awf170]

Day 4, Sunshine Village:

Only a few pics, still to epic to take pics...

 

[eatskisleep]

Awesome!

 

[awf170]

Day 5, Sunshine Village:

Goats Eye:

View of Deliurum(sp) area from the shoulder

Same except a little left

3 days after the snow storm and everything was already totally tracked out :wink:

Zoom on the dive

Looking down on a hiking cut across on goats eye

Peaks

Looking towards the village

 

[awf170]

more from day 5:

Nearing the end of the hike(notice how tracked out it is, also remember that the storm was 3 days ago)

more moguls :wink:

this is going to suck

Cool Cornice

Huge cliff

Looking towards the village again

Looking back up into what I just came down(once again notice how tracked out it is)

 

[awf170]

Looking towards the Dive again

Behind the hotel

Ice Climb near the base

 

[awf170]

Non-Skiing Photos:

The view from the Condo was horrible...

Banff

Big Horn Sheep

Mount Norque(sp)

Rundle Mountain

Elk

Hoodoos

 

[awf170]

more...

 

[dmc]

I can't believe you didn't ski Delirium...
It had a lot more snow on it when I was there.. You could ski trhough the cliff band..


Excellent pictures of a pretty cool place... Great alpine shots - the cornices look doable but not skied(?) - the traverse along the base of the cliff looked great. I loved the drift at the top - the gully down Goats eye really cool.....

Do you carry a transciever in that terrain...? If not - Tell your Dad you need one.. Actually 2 is better

Not that it was an issue in the lines you skied but it could've been something that would hold you back from other terrain less tracked...

 

[awf170]

Not that it was an issue in the lines you skied but it could've been something that would hold you back from other terrain less tracked...

No tranciever. But why would having a transciever get me into less tracked terrian? I have no avi training so just a transciever wouldnt get me into the OB. Unless your talking about the Dive, which was probably a lot more tracked but was probably a lot nicer. That stuff on goats on is nice but gets nasty because of the southern exposure.

 

[dmc]

No tranciever. But why would having a transciever get me into less tracked terrian? I have no avi training so just a transciever wouldnt get me into the OB. Unless your talking about the Dive, which was probably a lot more tracked but was probably a lot nicer. That stuff on goats on is nice but gets nasty because of the southern exposure.

I was just making an assumption that you'd follow up with actually learning how to use it.. I know you would...

There's been a few times that I've had the oppurtunity to go to terrain that lends itself to wearing a transceiver and friends that did not - had to stay back... Some of those people had all the gear back at the condo... Just didn't think they'd need it..

Once you get one(and learn to use it) you'll find yourself wearing it out west all the time.. Inbounds or not...

 

[NHpowderhound]

Too bad you couldn't enter one of those in the Photo Contest
A bunch of first place photos IMO. Nice pics Austin!
((*
*))NHPH

 

[awf170]

I was just making an assumption that you'd follow up with actually learning how to use it.. I know you would...

ohhh I gotcha. I thought you knew that I didn't have a transciever so I thought you were saying to rent one so I could explore less tracked out terrian.

 

[LVNLARG]

Glad you got some snow...the snow year there has been sucking in Banff but awesome in Whistler. I'm gonna be out there again late March I think. Ptarmigan lift/area was what you couldn't remember.... It's a larger predatory bird...like an eagle...The P is silent.

 

[awf170]

Glad you got some snow...the snow year there has been sucking in Banff but awesome in Whistler.

No this has actually been a pretty good year for them, really good compared to last year.

 

[Marc]

Glad you got some snow...the snow year there has been sucking in Banff but awesome in Whistler. I'm gonna be out there again late March I think. Ptarmigan lift/area was what you couldn't remember.... It's a larger predatory bird...like an eagle...The P is silent.

Actually, I think the Ptarmigan is a small herbavore, that resembles a morning dove. Short, fat, and changes from brownish to white for winter color to avoid being eaten by predatory birds.

 

[Marc]

Ahh, yes.

Some pictures of our friend:

Back on topic, Banff looks amazing, Austin. I'm jealous. That may be on my hit list for next winter or the one after. I would die to go to Kicking Horse on a good snow year after looking at some of those pic's on their website.