But what is amazing about this TR is that they were both skied by Maddy, who's been skiing for a little bit more than a year, with literally no experience before that.
After Sky & I skied Cheakamus the day before. We had a lazy New Years Eve and left the Russet hut shortly after 11am to go ski the Banana Chute on Fissile. Re-charged with a butter fried frozen bagel breakfast, we set off for the South Face of Fissile and made our way onto a moraine, where we could boot pack up the rotten south facing snow.
Maddy topping out:
There was a big hollow sounding slab at the top, so we skied down the ridge a bit and the snow felt a bit better. I crossed one spot with some funky snow and found the snow to be better on skiers right, where it'd been a bit more sheltered from all the arctic outflows.
On the upper part of the banana chute:
At the bottom:
Maddy wanted more. So after a New Years Day recovery, we went up to the Duffy to ski the Aussie couloir.
Somehow, after a week of sunshine, there were still no tracks to be seen on the Anniversary glacier
There we go:
After a bit of a sweaty, hot slog:
We got to the top of the couloir, and booted over to the summit. Maddy was feeling a bit intimated, so we didn't ski off the summit, but put our skis back on at the top of the couloir.
Can't stop her now:
We stopped at the Keith's hut for a quick break on the way out, and made it out before it got dark.
