Canada happens. And when it does it changes everything. Even months later you feel the difficulty you had coming home to where everything is smaller. Immediately you were planning a return, maybe in 2 weeks, a month tops. You have to plan it just to ease the transition. And as soon as you get there you start scheming ways to never leave. This year’s cooked up plan was to rent a month-room in the plush hotel on Rogers Pass and set up a business services shop – slide your fax under the door and it’ll be sent as soon as I get out of the hot tub after skiing kind of thing, email, web building, your general computer consulting sideshow. Here’s how it turned out….

In the digital camera age, we tend to take a LOT more shots, and for some reason they loaded in reverse-chronological order, so starting from the end.  The video is linked at the bottom.

The last of the smoked salmon & someone's green olives, consumed somewhere near Dear Lodge

Illicileawat Glacier from near the top of Youngs Peak                    Vertical skin trail up the morain

                                                                                                        Typical lunch, super high grade fuel only

Eric doing the Dome Glacier, last day of skiing

Canada's version of Ross Peak

Head lamp finish in the Asulkan Drainage - late start, late finish

                                                                                                                Longest run of the trip - an easy 3000'

                                                                                                                                                                                                        I had to throw in the close-up just for Annette!
 
                                                                                                        Hard balled and no-bakes, no messing around here

                                                                                                    Yes, that's a skin trail, yes it's in 2 feet of fresh snow, Canadians only
Ahhhhh, back on Rogers Pass!

And not for the first part of the trip:  Trophy Hut Week, Wells Gray Provincial Park, West Central BC

Eric Dale Paul Annette Chris Krista Al DaveO Jim Paul                    Trophy Sunset

                                                                                                        Breakfast by the Kilo

Trophy Hut in center, Day 2's terrain in background

                                                                                                        "I think I'll have a little more..."

What you see for 270 degrees around the horizon = Canada

Seriously though.....

                                                                                                        First dinner of Nochi & Spinach, vegetarian power does exist

                                                                                                        The commute home

What happens when you cross the street and accidentally climb into the Alpine

                                                                                                                Trophy Peak, 1st day

First run of the trip, sunny and fresh snow

                                                                                                            Taxi is leaving....

                                                                                                                    First view of the hut

Our two transporation options, '48 Tucker or '98 A-Star
Where we almost lost Al's cooler, don't camp in WA on a Friday night when the locals are scrounging for beer coolers n the middle of the night, don't leave you cooler on top of you car, be ready to make a surprise attack from the back hatch as he's running away with it

Canada Video:

Trophy Hut

Jerky Run at Trophy Hut

Rogers Pass part 1

Rogers Pass part 2