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Smithers
- The Galleon - Babine Mts. March 5 2009
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and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted.
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Hudson
Bay - Feb 28th || Mt.
Harvey - March 1st || Hudson
Bay Inbounds - March 2nd || Boulder
Mt. - March 3rd ||
The Galleon
- March 5th || BC
Scenes and Windy Ridge - March 6th || Windy
Ridge - March 7th || Bear
Glacier - March 8th || Shames
Slackcountry - March 10th || Shames
- Happy Valley Tour - March 11th || Shames
Inbounds and Slackcountry- March 12-14th
The Galleon is the second highest peak in the Babines at 2380m. You can ski
directly to the peak and on this sunny day that was one option for the day.
We skied with Brian Hall, the owner of the Storknest
Inn where we stayed - highly recommended with its reasonable prices and
breakfast included!
We left the Inn early to get an early
start only to be thwarted by a mechanical on the G3 Tele bindings.
Do you have a cable? Do
you have a pair of pliers? Knife? Bomb? New bindings? - Photo by Jos van der
Burg
Once the firkling was over we
finished the 8km flat trek where you climb a mere 277m and then headed into
the trees.
Lucas, Brian, Lee
and Sharon - Photo by Jos van der Burg
You cross a creek a few times,
sometimes by snow bridges, sometimes over trees.
John and Linda
We then leave the trees and
enter the Danny Moore Basin. There was a lot of wind in here over the
last few weeks...
Jos and Linda
Looking back down the Basin.
Jos
Then we have to cross the
creek! We found a pretty good spot!
Lucas, Linda,
Lee, Sharon and Brian - Photo by Jos van der Burg
John wasn't so lucky.
Negotiating the boulder field
on the way up the valley.
Lucas, Lee, Jos,
Linda, John and Sharon - Photo by Brian Hall
Getting closer to the mountains!
John and Linda
Looking down the valley of
the Danny Moore Basin flanked by Lagopus Mt and Elmsted.
Can you see us
trying to catch Jos schnell! - Photo by Jos van der Burg
Almost
there? Not quite...
Lucas
Brian
We are now heading to
the last section I guess you can say of the ascent.
Onward HO!
- Photo by Brian Hall
The group makes the
last push to the summit and we get there at 3:40
yeah, the
summit, my vestigial penis grew.
Then we head back down!
Lee getting the
shots in. - Photo by Jos van der Burg
We
shredded this slope! Snow was not bad!
Linda
- Photo by
Jos van der Burg
We high
tale it back down before it gets too dark. Get to sample some 'classic'
Smithers tree survival skiing and were back at the cars for sunset.
Lets go! -
Photo by Jos van der Burg
Google Earth Image of the
Babines.
30km, 1700m climbing in
~10hours with firkling.
