In January we went on a 2 week ski touring MSP film trip up at Golden Alpine Holidays (GAH) Meadow and Vista lodges. GAH offers an almost european style lodge network in the Esplanade range of the Selkirk Mountains.
Meadow Lodge...
Located on the western side of the Kinbasket Lake the Esplanades are the last range of the Selkirks, across the lake on the Eastern side are the front range of the Canadian Rockies. It is an amazing area with a great variety of Mountains and very consistent deep powder snow.
Meadow Lodge
Pillow Madness.
The main objective of the trip was to hit up all the pillow lines below both of the GAH lodges.
However are plans soon changed when we were treated to a couple beautiful sunny days and our attention shifted towards the alpine above meadow lodge.
Some nice mini golf to get warmed up on just above the lodge...
I soon found myself look to the higher alpine and I had to ski a line from the summit of Jalibi peak.
The views from the top of Jalibi were spectacular, seeing both the highest peaks of the Selkirks and the Rockies was quite the treat.
To the West the glorious Selkirks...
To the North the highest peak of the Selkirks Mount Sir Sanford.
To the East my home Range the Beautiful Canadian Rockies, check out those sick spines!
After a couple days of clear skies the weather moved in and it pretty much snowed a little bit for the rest of the trip....
WOW...
Excellent testing grounds for the new EHP Renegade.
Living in paradise for two weeks almost completely cut off from the outside world, it is amazing the were able to get me to leave, Ha, Ha!
This trip was an excellent trial run me on my new Dynafit boot/binding set up. I skied on the Titan and Vertical FT 12 binding the entire trip. Everyone including myself was blown away by the Dynafit's performance. I skied the Dynafit set up hard and had no problems with binding retention thats for sure. A light weight bomber touring setup that is strong enough to huck and charge on, the future is NOW.
It was also my first trip in my new clothing sponsor Arc'teryx's gear. I have always heard about the superior quality of Arcteryx's gear but now that I have had the opportunity to wear it everyday ski touring for 2 weeks I am truly impressed. Arc'teryx gear is amazing!!!!
I would like to thank John, Dustin, Murray, Mark, Ian, Billie, Asser, Geoff, Petra, Dirk, Don, Jen, Jessie and all of the GAH, Alpine and Canadian Helicopters for making this amazing trip possible.
Stoked!!!!
Eric
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