Caught by an Avi
When:
Sun, 03/28/2010
Where:
Mount Sima
State / Province:
Yukon
Who:
The wife and I
Temperature:
30F
Conditions:
2" on hardpack
Ok, I don't want to worry anybody. Nobody was literally caught in an avalanche, but Kristin and I got trapped by an avi in Whitehorse. The problem was that the road home was covered by a shit load of snow and the snow removal guys seemed to have that day off. I say that because in the morning when we left Skagway we had a lot of wind drifts in the road and nobody was up to clean up the drifts. To give you guys a bit of an idea, I am including a map.
At the bottom of the map is Fraser where the Canadian boarder is, below that is Skagway which is not marked. To get to Fraser from Skagway you have to drive over a mountain pass which gets hairy very often. Anyways there was a large avi and nobody could get into Skagway and nobody could get out. That meant a overnight stay in Whitehorse and a $109 hotel bill (and that price is normal up here).
Avi or not the day was great at Mount Sima. It was Simapaloosa with live (highschool) bands and a Skiers and Boardercross. The course looked fun but it cut off half the mountain. Next year I am considering competing and seeing how I do. We were just cruising around the mountain and enjoying all the festivities. This will be our last time riding at a resort for this season, we will have a few more splitboard missions and a trip to Valdez but that is it for this season. I don't want to head into summer yet but there is no stopping the clock. Well the few things I have to look forward to is the new skatepark here in Skagway. Look out for some reports about that, and all the seafood I will be taking straight out of the ocean.
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