Early Season and Sol Mountain

Winter in Revelstoke has kicked off in full form with unusually cold temps and early snows hammering down early in Novenber and continuing ever since! I was fortunate to be asked straight back into my previous job here finishing the mansion on the Resort.  Great to make some coin again!

Mid December saw a massive storm roll in while Gord Spurgeon, Corbin Crimmins and myself drove to the  middle of nowhere to wait for a helicopter that didn’t show up.  After sucessfully eating the day away we resided in Vernon for the night before flying into Sol Mountain Lodge the next morning.

Yeeeeeah everyone loves heli! Corbin Crimmins Photo

White room! Now where did those trees get to? Corbin Crimmins Photo

Sol Mountain is a backcountry lodge nestled deep in the Monashee Mountains with all the creature comforts of home and endless backcountry touring at your doorstep. The day spent sitting around saw a fluffy 45cm of dry white goodness fall to earth setting the week up nicely (it continued to snow 20cm each day for the next three days).  Needless to say shit was blower as we got to work scouting tree lines and doing our best to capture the essence of Sol Mountain on film. Bit of a learning curve for myself being a newbie to the splitboard game, definately an energy efficient way to score the goods!  Days went by rising super early to the chirp of our turbo guide Aaron Cooperman, shovelling breakfast down and packing lunch before launching out the door for another day spent scoping and shooting whatever took our liking.  With snow this dry and deep anything slightly resembling a turn turned into a trip to the white room, try that mach ten through the trees and you want a good memory. For the record I do like trees.

Days ended skinning home in the dark back to a warm lodge, gourmet meals and a drink to the day.

Drop, slash, pop, magic. Corbin Crimmins Photo

Our last day at Sol dawned sunny with not a breath of wind and a snowpack that was finally settling down a bit.  We had our chance to get some alpine style lines.

Surfing. Corbin Crimmins Photography

A great trip, thank you to Vshaw Productions for the opportunity, Sol Mountain for having us for the week and Gord, Corbin and Vance for good times.

Cheers

Schmack. Corbin Crimmins Photography

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