Sorry for the delay on the next post…. Thompson’s Pass was epic to say the least. After being in the area a year ago and getting mostly skunked the whole month we were there, it was nice to score some good days in the two weeks we had this year. I was accompanied by Jason West, Jake Sakson, and Jonah Howell of Powderwhore productions. It was a great crew, and everyone skied amazing. It was a great opportunity to see the young crazy antics of Jake who was so quiet when selecting lines, but always had something up his sleeve(which you can see in the upcoming film from PW.) Mr. West had the skills of a Veteran and slayed his lines with ease, and also was not hesitant to huck himself which is always great to watch. Jonah was just a character the whole time and made us laugh throughout the trip, especially with his stinky insoles. It was a great crew and we all had a great time together.
Now lets get to the skiing…. it was incredible. Having the opportunity to heli ski fully for the first time was amazing. In the begining of the trip we did a lot of touring and the weather was the hardest thing to deal with. After having a few days of doing one drops and touring, we figured we had not fulfilled our heli budget so we decided to go for it on our second to last day. We splurged and went for 5 runs with the heli on a bluebird day…. they all were worthy too, which I was super stoked about. We skied off the Python twice, went to the Books for 2 runs and finished with an amazing descent of Diamond. All in all that day made the trip, especially the Diamond run. A huge descent and consistently steep the whole time.
Unfortunately on my second to last run of that day I took a pretty serious tumble coming out the flats after I slayed my run. I ran into some serious wind funk that was super hard and ended up injuring both my knees. I was super bummed because I skied the hard part with ease and then, just tomohawked in the flats which sucked. The knees are feeling better though after about 2 weeks of rest, my left one still is hurting pretty good, but time and rest will help that.
I have attached a couple photos and soon I will be posting some headcam footy from the trip!
Jason entering The Promise Land
Headin' to the Iguanabacks
North Face of Diamond from the heli
Andy our heli pilot...one badass mo-fo, droppin' us in the goods
Top of my line in the Banana chutes
The two lines I skied in the morning before the Banana chutes
Jason in the Banana's
Shreddin'
Our Guide Dylan, with a sick mohawk!!
The Python
The Tusk
Ramps in the Books
The Heyden Glacier, aka The Books
Thompson's Pass from the Tsaina cabins
cheers
chris
