Elfin Lake Ski Hut

March 28th-30th, 2008

This was the first multiday ski adventure for me, and I had a really great time. Nathan and I headed up on Thursday, and decided to camp in the parking lot and get an early start up to the hut. As we were just about to leave on Friday morning, a few Canadians showed up and said they were glad we were going first. I wasn't sure why until a little less than half way up where we started having to really break trail. After making it to the hut and having a quick snack, we skinned up and skied down Columnar and made it back to the hut just as the Second group arrived.

On saturday we got up at 5:30 to try and make it to Garibladi, but quickly decided that the conditions would not permit a summit. So, we decided to head to little Diamond Head instead. At the summit, we found an interesting looking couloir that we decided to ski down. If you take a look at Ian's post, you can get an idea of the exciting time we had coming back up after some bad decisions. We all made it back safely, and I think we all learned from the experience. I know I sure did. I would like to give a big thank you to Clément for his tireless effort breaking trail for us as we made our way back up. I got back to the hut around 8 or 8:30 I think, so it was a pretty epic day.

Sunday we skinned out and drove home. A big group of us stopped at the Boundary Bay brewery and had dinner, which was excellent. We all had a good time relating stories from the weekend, quite a few of which came from the 40+ person group that had a lot of 'problems'.

All in all, it was a fantastic weekend shared with a bunch of great people.