Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Spring

The best part of my springbreak was traveling across the seven seas to Vancouver British Columbia. All of my relatives are atleast six years older then me. During the day i went skiing at whistler, waking up at 6:30am was challenging enough over the longest weekend but i was given the opportunity to drive up to whistler in a Tesla P85D. Coffee was no longer needed as going from 0-100km/h in 3.2 seconds spared my need for caffeine. The drive from West Vancover to Whistler takes about an two hours but we managed it in an hour and ten minuets. We arrived at creek side where we bought are back country access passes. It only allows us to use each chairlift once but it doesn't matter since we will be out of bounds for most of the day. After an hour of gonadal rides and lift lines we were standing at the entrance to the national park. This was no daily adventure, we were attempting to complete the spear head traverse in one day. A brutal 70km traverse that starts on whistler mountain, loops around fissile peak and then dumps you on blackcomb. Because we are on skis we can complete such a walk in about 12 hours but we must traverse glaciers which takes a significant amount of time to do so safely. 35km in and 7 hours later we had made it past the last glacier traverse and we were now starting to come around fissile summit from here is was mostly flat or downhill. Fissle mountain was incredible, it looked like a knife cutting into the ski. It was covered in glaciers and steep cliff faces with over hanging Serac's. Slowly but surely we made it to the top of backcomb blow. It was 5:00 pm and we had been gone for 13 hours. The sun was coming down just infront of us where is lit the infamous out of bounds run called the corona with a pink after glow. Although this was a real treat to ski through we were tired and ready to go home so we did not dwell for very long. This was easily the highlight of my spring break

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