Spring Touring – Cerise Creek
2010 May 6
I went on a touring mission up Cerise Creek / Mt Joffre with a couple friends last week. Conditions were… interesting over the first half of the approach, where for the first time since I bought them I wasn’t cursing the uselessness of my snowshoes. The crampons bit into the choppy ice of the forest floor far more effectively than climbing skins, but I’m still buying a splitboard this fall. Snowshoes suck.
We thought the snow might be a little sloppy up high, but avoiding sun-baked aspects led to a late April powder harvest. Gotta love that spring crop!
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You slept there? How long does it take to get up there?
Yea, Keith’s Hut is one of the better ones around – I’ve stayed there a couple times. Access is pretty good, easy on snowshoes and even faster on skins.