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ast2: quartz ridge, sunshine meadows

We went to ski this thing:

 

Quartz Ridge

 

It involved another episode of cheating, where we caught the gondola up to the village at Sunshine, then rode a chairlift to gain even more height, then whizzed off downhill into the meadows. Eventually we ran out of speed and had to start skinning. And then after some hole-digging, some steep uphill skinning.

 

Skinning up Quartz Ridge

 

Then it was weeeeeeh downhill again (that’s me in that cloud of powder… somewhere).

 

Megan skiing down Quartz Ridge

 

And some more hole digging and food eating (leftover spaghetti pizza is a fantastic meal for backcountry skiing). There were great views off the back of Quartz Ridge.

 

Valley views

 

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