Sunshine Skiing

I had 3 days earlier this week staying in Banff, out skiing with Joe, Lou and Frank on his visit from the UK. Thankfully we managed to coincide we one of the biggest dumps since the Christmas break which was nice and since it was a weekday it was fairly quiet. We found a really nice powder stash out of the back on Standish lift by ducking the rope which we had a few great laps on.


On the last day we found even better skiing over on Goat's Eye mountain, if you traverse out right from the chairlifts theres a series of double black diamond chutes which drop through cliff bands, we skied the first of these which was in pretty good condition but a little thin in areas that had been windswept. The ski itself was ace, its fairly steep at the top (maybe 45 degrees?) so if you took a decent fall theres a good chance you woulden't stop, the couloir narrows at the bottome but once your out you end up in a wonderful open powder bowl with lovely skiing and then some nice glades which eventually spit you out on a piste. Fantastic.

We stayed in the Brewster Mountain Lodge in Banff which we managed to get a good deal at, $90 a night for a room of two. I can also now highly recommend The Saltlik restaurant; not cheap but up there as one of the best steaks I've eaten.