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      Fairy Meadows Ski Week: April 27 - May 4, 2013

      • John Monks
        2013-05-09 13:11:16

        Fairy Meadows Ski Week: April 27 - May 4, 2013

        Fairy Meadows served up the goods in a big way for us! Our group of twelve assimilated two others in a Borg-like fashion for a fantastic week of ski touring. The weather kept us from flying in on Saturday. We were dissappointed to not get in, but encouraged by reports that it was snowing hard at the Bill Putnam Hut. We spent most of Sunday waiting for the weather to cooperate, and finally got an opening late Sunday afternoon. Alpine Helicopters brought in the big 212 to expedite things, and suddenly there we were!

        Hanging out on the mud flats of Kinbasket!

        There had been about 75 cm of new snow that was well bonded to the firm spring surface beneath it, and it was still coming down! Our first descent from Friendship Col was blower powder face shots! As the week progressed it got a little denser, but even after some really warm sunny days (and sun burnt lips!) it was still soft on protected north facing slopes. Not a bad turn the entire trip! Our group managed to summit on Sentinel, Pioneer, Enterprise, Colossal, Sir Williams, Fria, Damon and Pythias. A fantastic week of great ski touring!

        Headed for Friendship Col

        Traversing Gothics Glacier to Sentinel Peak

        Looking across Pioneer Pass to Pioneer Peak and the Adamants

        Turns

        More turns!

        Great ski terrain!

        Apres' Ski

        Sometimes you gotta just get out of the sun!

        Our ski party (literally!)

      • shredr
        2013-05-09 14:08:44

        Awesome shots John, great to see you are still out there getting some.

        Haven't been into Fairy Meadows on about 5 years but I see the terrain is as epic as ever. Looks like you hit the week as well, before all this super hot weather arrived. What is the elevation of the hut, looks higher than most?

      • John Monks
        2013-05-09 14:55:29

        The hut is at 6750'/2057 m. Our timing was lucky. I'm sure things have changed a lot for the group up there this week. We listened to and watched avalanches coming down on south facing slopes later in the week. I suspect with the warm weather they're coming down in lots of places.

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