Yesterday Brent and I attempted to ski Mount Sproatt. We started from the Rainbow Lake Trail which is located just West of Whistler.
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| The red lines are very approximate! |
We started skinning up.
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| Narrow creek bridges were tricky! |
Around the 3km mark we left the trail and started heading up into the trees and gaining elevation. This is the route described in John Baldwin's book. It was tough skinning up in the the super crunchy snow. It was slow moving and eventually we decided to turn around before we ran out of time!
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| Brent kept his split board as skis for the way down! |
Once we hit the road we got to pick up a little speed.
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| Go Brent Go!! |
One note:
-On snowshoes we probably would have made the summit. I still have a lot to learn about backcountry skiing and skinning up steep terrain.
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