March 7- Touring Pillows
Submited By chump On 2008-03-11
We spent the last 2 days ski touring near the Crowfoot glacier and in the Sunshine Village slackcountry.

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It’s been fun even though avi conditions have kept us below treeline. We’ve managed to find some pillow areas to keep occupied on and the snow quality has been really good; a supportive mid-pack with 10-20cm of light fresh snow.
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The loose snow sluffs like crazy on the old surface hoar, so you feel like you are on something big in Alaska instead of a 40 foot line in the trees. We can dream.

Mostly, I’ve been trying to get the hang of my new camera. I dropped a bunch of cash on an SLR and need to learn how to take shots on it. I’ve been making everyone I ski with stop and pose and I’ve also been trying some remote triggered self-portraits. It all needs work, though. I pretty much blow every shot right now.
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I also tried to go NoBoarding this week too, but couldn’t get everyone together. Hopefully this week. It looks like such a cool sport to try. If a guy could master that, skiing, telemark skiing and mono-skiing, you would be the ultimate mountain man in my books. I guess that will be my goal for the rest of the season. I’ll try to get pics of all of them.
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Heading to Louise tomorrow for the Junior Big Mtn contest. I get to coach and few kids and watch all the little grommets put the rest of us to shame.