Dennis Glad to see that you are back on your feet again. Even if sliding down a hill on them
Mike From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. via CnC-List Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 10:34 PM To: CnClist Cc: Dennis C. Subject: Re: Stus-List : off topic Skiing Apologies to the non-skiers on the list. Yeah, $100+ is a bit painful. OTH, there are bargains available (and we know how much sailboat owners like bargains. There, it's sailing related). I'm skiing 4 days at Steamboat, 4 days at Winter Park, several days at Copper Mountain and Crested Butte this year on a $569 pass. I also get access to Eldora, CO if I choose to go. Also included are discounted single day tickets for friends. Very good deal if you are skiing 5+ days. Vail offers various passes for their resorts. Really good deals also if you plan well and buy early. I will be skiing in Colorado much of January, early February and again in March if any listers are out there. Have truck, will ski! :) Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Rick Rohwer via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Enivous about equador, and you living in BC and skiing anywhere but BC. On another note, I think I have given up on skiing in Whistler so it’s all yours! I think they have finally hit my personal affordability index with $119 for a tow ticket. Explains why you are skiing in Colorado! Cheers Rick Paikea 37+ Poulsbo, WA On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Brad Crawford via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> 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<mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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