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Hello. It’s snowing a bit up on the mountains (hopefully), I’m home with a slight flu. Someone has to make the sacrifices I guess.

With not much new snow previously and couple of sunny days we’ve been doing some exploring around Whitewater. The area has kept its promises. Here’s a quick few photos from the nearby backcountry from couple days ago. With the bluebird weather we decided to get up to the Ymir Peak/Mountain (I’ve heard it been called both) in the Whitewater backcountry since we hadn’t been there before. It’s the prominent peak next to the ski area, always dominating the scenery on a day with good visibility, and a bit of a must-do for anyone in the area for longer.

Ymir Peak in the dusk, seen from the Whitewater parking lot

The ascent follows the right flank of the peak through snow-covered trees (not seen in the photo above). It is steep enough that I wouldn’t want to do it in any kind of unstable snow conditions.

Going up

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And then we were on the top, panorama from the peak to east

With the last big snowfall having been some time ago already the normal routes that ascend to the Ymir bowl back to the resort were all more or less tracked out, but the run down from the saddle next to the peak to the east facing bowl had been left completely untouched and the snow looked great. The lower angle pow has been the name of the game for us during the last couple of weeks, can’t complain since big turns in perfect hero snow make us happy.

Laura on the upper half of the run

Christmas trees!

Skinning back up to get a saddle for another run down to the ski area and our car, our tracks barely visible behind with Ymir Mountain

Juho is spending the season in USA and BC, Canada, and posts updates from there regularly. Here are the previous posts from the season:
A Season around USA and Canada – Here we go..
Touring at Kootenay Pass
Rogers Pass & Whitewater backcountry

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