Mount Hardy - "OpenFly Coulior", May 3

With hwy20 having opened not two days prior, the race was on to harvest what was left of the pow, before the masses and/or freeze/thaw rendered the slopes a bumped-out crud fest. What to do, what to do? Let us see, Silverstar, Birthday Tour, Maple and Rainy Passes - been there, done that. Aha, but wait! Phil Fortier had posted a couple trip reports a few years back of ski descents on Mt. Hardys north side: NE Coulior and Open Fly Coulior. These features seemed intriguing enough to lure Tod and me to go have a look for ourselves.

Full report here.

Snow/Source Lakes - N. Slope Chair Pk, Source Lk Divide, Pineapple Pass, April 26

We should have gotten an earlier start, eh? Yeh, it is only 9am and only going to get hotter was Eric Henrys reply after witnessing a sluff slide spontaneously release down the lower flanks of Bryant Coulior. We were only halfway up Chair Peak Basin, when our ambitious plans to ski the North Slope of Chair Peak were dashed in the name of playing it safe. Ok, now for plan B.

Full report here.