Plus ca change #2
I wasn’t sure what to write his week’s blog about – a lot has happened but not much has actually changed. I wrote this before our trip out to the Boulder hut – the highlight of our 6 weeks in Fernie. It’s been a difficult week with a couple of falls resulting in a complete loss of confidence at the top of two very steep off-piste pitches; not great when we’re skiing at this level! These falls tweaked the left knee with the badly torn or ruptured ACL again and pulled the upper calf in my good right leg! Let’s put this into some perspective – the aim of the last 4 weeks has been to improve and change us, already very experienced skiers, into real “Masters of the mountain”. It all leads to a 4 day stay at the remote, helicopter accessed Boulder Hut in the Purcell Mountains, approx. 150km NW of Fernie. We will be ski touring every day. That is to say, no ski lifts, no Cats (Piste Bashers) or helicopters to gain the vertical needed to ski downhill – we have to earn our turn