Day 19 - Fernie epicness

Well. Despite our knowledge that there might potentially be a lot of snow, we stayed up watching telly then slept in.

We got to the mountain around 10AM and to 10CM fresh snow. It was a little wet but still awesome compared to Aus snow.

We headed straight up to the top and were lucky to bump into an Aussie who took us to Currie bowl.

It was nice up top - reasonably untracked - but there were ice death cookies under the fresh snow down lower.

Fernie is EPIC. Seriously, it's a serious, serious mountain. There's a massive headwall, or two, behind the entire resort, which is a combination of cliff faces, couloirs, and heroic chutes. Basically from the top of the lifts there is a fence beyond which you cannot go. The avalanche danger is very serious (this season at least) with signs posted everywhere. Apparently some awesome lines are just beyond some banned areas and if people poach them even other riders rail on them because these lines are above an heavily used bowl and avalanches have been triggered onto innocent people below.

Apparently Fernie is the best-patrolled resort around. Also I am told that Fernie uses the most amount of explosives in the country, apart from the entire Canadian road-clearing crew. That is a lot of explosions.









We ran back up to the top, and headed rider's right. Packy and I got separated again, and this is what I stumbled onto. Bowl after bowl, tree line after tree line, fresh snow, stashes everywhere. The place is crazy. I found line after line, it was incredible, and no-one seemed to be running that area. I eventually found Packrat and showed him this, it was Stoke-tastic, Shraderiffic and all that. Superlatives don't describe how good it was.







Here're some random scenery shots.







Some guys hiked this then smashed it down. Cah-razee.



Tomorrow, we return to Nelson (our second home) as Whitewater looks like copping a blasting over the next few days.