Thanks to coastal magic (and much to my surprise / delight), we actually managed to ski down to around 900m elevation on an East aspect.
The last time I was at Tricouni was almost 6 years ago, and I had forgotten my camera then too. This time I also forgot beer. We were close to turning around when we realized this. Maddy had her camera though, so we still got some pictures.
Mike & I skin up towards Cypress
Mike boots the last bit of icy West facing slopes near the summit of Cypress. Pyroclastic Peak & the Vulcan's Thumb in the background.
I really like this side of Tricouni (Garibaldi & Tantalus range in the background)
The South side of Cypress had some softer snow than I was hoping for, but it was still fun. It was like cream of corn, instead of just corn.
The skin up towards the W summit of Tricouni had some crazy cohesive snow that allowed for impressively steep spring skin tracks. Cypress peak is the rocky summit on the right & Pyroclastic is in the background on the left.
The scramble to the summit was snow free
Garibaldi Lake looks cool from the summit. It looks like the Barrier is barely holding it back.
We skied off of the right part of the Y near the summit, which was guarded with some nice steep snow at the top
The top held some nice corn. Mike got first tracks
Then Maddy had some fun
The choke through the cliff band at the bottom didn't have any snow left and had a crazy ice runnel funneling into it, so we did an exposed traverse out skiers left and skied awesome fall line to the valley below.
From there we decided to take a chance and ski out the creek at the bottom, which looked gnarly from above, but on the drive in we swore that we had been able to see snow at the bottom of the creek. Luckily we found this:
Which held snow to about 900m. The snow ended JUST as the canyon did. We thwacked through some Alder,
and couldn't find a way across Roe Creek until we curved back around Cypress to the same spot we had crossed it earlier that morning... oh well. Unfortunately beer was not waiting for us back at the car.
