Hi Brad, When I gather all the photos together I’l try to post them. Bill
> On Dec 14, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Brad Crawford <bcrawf7...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Bill, > > Sounds cool, quite an adventure. High altitude big mountain skiing for sure? > Thanks for sharing that story. Do you by chance have a link to pictures you > could share? Maybe share them off list? > > bcrawf7...@comcast.net <mailto:bcrawf7...@comcast.net> > > Fellow Skier > Brad Crawford > C&C 36 > Seattle, WA > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Bill Hoyne > via CnC-List > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 9:21 AM > To: Gaynor Hoyne; cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: Bill Hoyne > Subject: Stus-List : off topic Skiing > > The winter season is upon us up here in the north. Trying to get a headstart > on the ski season a friend and I decided to do a ski mountaineering trip to > Ecuador. For all you skiers out there, here is a bit of a trip description > > Our goal was to get as high as we could and ski some volcanoes. Getting high > on volcanoes usually means a severe headache and serious shortness of breath > :-) sorry no hallucinations! After a week of acclimatization hikes to > 17,000’ we did our first ski ascent. We drove to the refugio and hiked our > skiis to the base of the glacier at 17,000’ and promptly got headaches and a > bad sleep so we went to town to recover. The next day we went back and with a > 3AM start we hiked up to our skiis and boot packed our shit to the summit at > 19,000’. We skied off the summit avoiding some seracs and crevasses. We had > to jump a few crevasses - that was fun!!. The snow was rather thin, 1” of > crusty snow over isothermal ice, made for some nice corn skiing. The nearby > volcano Cotopaxi was erupting and spewing a fine ash all over the snow. It > was interesting skiing black snow (not good for the bases however). > A couple of spa days later we headed up Volcan Antisana - another 18,700’. > We had similar snow conditions but much more severe route finding issues. We > negotiated some very big seracs and crevasses. Getting up and down required > and lot of vertical snow and ice climbing. We spent a few hours route finding > on the way dow trying to avoid the worst of the seracs and finding the best > way to ski. We jumped and toured around some big ass crevasses, but made it > back to safety by early afternoon, it was only a 12 hour day. > Ecuador is a beautiful country. Defiantly worth exploring, however climate > change has done a number on the snow conditions on the volcanoes, very warm > dry weather has melted the glaciers and opened the crevasses. Worth climbing > maybe not hauling skiis up to ski. > I am back home now and the cross country skiing is awesome. We went up to Bow > Summit in the Rockies and skied boot deep powder. It’s amazing how much > oxygen there is at this elevation!! Life is good! > Now, should I do a little sailing in January :-) > > Happy Holidays to all you C&C listers!! > > Bill > > > Bill Hoyne > Mithrandir > ’74 C&C35 MkII > in Victoria,BC
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