Season Opener
Whistler doesn’t open until Thursday (edit: Whistler is now opening on WEDNESDAY, Blackcomb will follow the day after), but with a decent storm rolling through late last week, there was finally enough snow in the mountains to kick off my 2008/09 snowboard season. On Sunday, we loaded up the car and made our way up to the Diamond Head area of Garabaldi park for a relatively mellow backcountry adventure. Stoked!
Not too shabby for the first turn of the season…
The sunset view down Howe Sound was a great bonus after an awesome day of shredding:
More photos and words after the jump:
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Up, up, up…
Are we there yet?
The only bad thing about our day was the fact that Poulin and I don’t have snowshoes… yet. Still, finally snowboarding again was well worth the extra effort. Dear loving parents, Christmas is in a month 
Group shot! 
Check out the rest of the day here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewstrain/sets/72157610014159230/
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Looks like a great trek! Great photos too!
so sick
so jealous
so winter!
Nice shots! Wish I could get a good vantage point to shoot some landscape pics of the refugee camp here, spent 5 days living in it and will be there again this coming week. The mist in the morning is amazing, but I think I’d need a helicopter to get a proper photo…
Very jealous of your backcountry trekking! Love seeing the pics though, really makes me want to find time to see some of those areas!