Sometimes, mountain beauty stuns you like a burst of radiation from a neutron star. Yesterday, out of Whitewater resort again near Nelson, Canada. Ymir Peak. We’ll let the pictures do some talking. Click most of them to enlarge.
Steve at the summit of Ymir Peak, above Whitewater resort out of Nelson, British Columbia.
A couple of snowboarders were getting set to enter via a stiff line called First Choice.
Michael caught this one of me heading up Ymir. The surreal landscape up there is stunning.
In the fog on Ymir Ridge
MK's version of the brocken spectre we got on the summit. The undercast was just high enough to allow the various named mountain ranges around us to elegantly announce their existence. Quite beautiful. I'm told that's the Kokanee Glacier in the distance?
Hayden.
Cam Shute enjoying the pow below the clouds.
I quite like this elegant shot of Michael's, me skiing Popcorn Bench on Ymir. We're all trying to up our photography games a bit, as the combination of harsh weather and in my case camera problems resulted in a few less action shots then I would have liked to be publishing. For example, I'm still not convinced about my Canon S100, but I did work hard with it yesterday and got the settings much more dialed. Michael is using a Lumix LX5 that has the usual challenge of no ready viewfinder (you can get a bulky add-on), but he seems to be dealing with that well enough.
Hayden Kennedy has dialed those Volkl Nunataq he picked from the WildSnow Ultimate Quiver. Louie caught this shot of him heading down Kuba Chute.
MK's interpretation.
WildSnow.com publisher emeritus and founder Lou (Louis Dawson) has a 50+ years career in climbing, backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering. He was the first person in history to ski down all 54 Colorado 14,000-foot peaks, has authored numerous books about about backcountry skiing, and has skied from the summit of Denali in Alaska, North America’s highest mountain.
