Powder Mountain!

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Sorry for yet another delayed Blog entry! Last weekend (4th April) I (Iain) went off with 3 other guys I've met out here for a day at Powder Mountain Cat Skiing. Basically this involved a group of 12 of us heading off into the amazing back country down the road from Whistler and getting ferried about the mountains in a snow cat whilst snowboarding fresh untracked powder. This is was a real treat for all of us, riding deep powder is the reason why we are all here, its a sensation that is very hard to describe but is probably as close to flying / floating that you can get.

Needless to say we all had an amazing time - 8 runs and about 16,000 vertical feet of riding and thankfully no hiking due to the snowcat.

As they say a picture tells a thousand words and so here are some pics of us taken by a professional photographer who came along to help us spend a bit more of our ever dwindling cash.

I am sad to report that other 3 guys I went with are all better snowboarders than me and so their pics are suitably superior, that said I had just as much fun as them and we finished the day off with a few well deserved beers in Dustys.

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Photos

Whistler and Blackcomb mountains in the distance
Crowds and lift lines over there

Paul Powder turn
This could be a magazine cover shot!

Tim
doing some follow cam with a very expensive camera in his hand!

Tim
Nice air

Me again
Yet another powder turn

Our crew
Me, Tim, Paul and Lez