TR??..TR. Currie 2 Wedge.. Jimmy Martinello, Kelven Vail, John Burko and Chris Christie, I think we broke a record with 3 consecutive days of good weather, (well almost!!)

Saturday morning we did a heli drop on Mount Currie and traversed to Mt Weart (9000 ft roughly) and attempted to ski the Owls, 1500 feet 50 deg.. Snow was buttery on the 10km traverse to the base with North facing variable verglass to some winter pow.

The main couloir actually looked like it held a feathery surface dusting of good winter snow so we started the climb. Not far into the ascent it was obvious things were pretty firm. I fell behind as usual trying to take photos and was getting my ass kicked by debris so I decided to turn around and take images from a vantage point. Not soon after my buddies turned as well because of snow condish and debris from above. We carried on another 10km to the North Ridge of Wedge and bivied in an amazing location. Casual morning and then we climbed the ridge and tried to ski off the summit but again, deceiving feathery pow appearance to sketchy variable ice.

On the summit my friend Jimmy Martinello spread a small portion of ashes from a buddy that passed away in an avalanche a couple of years ago. Chris “Beeker” Romeskie.

Low valley cloud lifted so we had to hunker down on the summit for a while and edge our way down the West Ridge close to some huge cornices to the NW Couloir. The entrance appeared bunk so we opted for the huge south facing chutes you can see from Blackcomb. 2000 feet of surprisingly great spring butter..

Did the wrap around to the Wedge hut. Passing under the NW couloir we saw 2 skiers booting up towards the low cloud late in the day, we figured they must have come over from Blackcomb??. We then braced our knees for the descent down to the highway in late season character building conditions..

Cheers, Chris