Eve and Sunshine come back for a spot of snow camping

Despite Eve showing some signs of a cold brewing, we headed off for an over night on the snow. I packed and humped a serious load of bedding, and we made it through a pretty warm but sleepless night as Eve's cold set in. We hiked a little way up the Trig Ridge from Guthega, and camped on the second knoll looking South West over the Guthega River, and the dam with the Snowy feeding it. It was lovely to be out there with all the little family, and I even got some late afternoon and early morning turns in. Lovely spring conditions all over with plenty of snow around.

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Watsons Crag

Thor and I took a trip out to Guthega for an afternoon climb of Twynam, sunset ski on Watsons Crag, and full moon ski down through Blue Lake and back to Guthega. The spring corn was a delight to ski, and the weather was perfect. The white out right twilight was a worry, but the moon came out just as we skied down to Blue Lake. On the traverse back along the Snowy, one small but persistent cloud obscured the moon almost all the way back. Finding our way back on snow was a challenge in the bush, ending in us humping our gear on foot. It was an exhausting but great day/night out.

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A day on Earth

Powder Day

Robbie and Clint drove up to Guthega last week, camped at Island Bend, and sent me a picture text the next morning of perfect looking powder! Thor and I arrived the next day and we all enjoyed turns down off Tate East Ridge, down the more Southerly aspects, especially the slopes down to the dam. What a great day!

Mount Twynam

Robbie, Thor and I head out to Guthega together to climb Mount Twynam, and ski down to Blue Lake. We were expecting fresh powder from the days before, but found nasty ice sheets and variable wind blow. It wasn't until we were half way down the fantastic Blue Lake Creek above Blue Lake itself, that we finally found our powder.

After the mammoth traverse back, and having climbed a total of 800m, and skied and traversed some 20km, we were all totally shagged. It was another wonderful day in the backcountry though.. :)

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