TR: Oboe/Cowboy Ridge Whistler backcountry

**LeeLau** · 12-28-2007, 11:23 PM

TR: Oboe/Cowboy Ridge Whistler backcountry

In an effort to duck out of holidays crowd, Sharon, James, Tim and I headed out to Oboe and to Cowboy Ridge to see if we could find untouched pow.

We came in off Lesser Flute to drop in off the SE slopes dropping into Oboe Creek. The ridgetop had thin snow and was facetted - unsurprisingly given recent wind direction.

Tim dropping in.

Flute was pretty tracked out. Oboe's N-facing slopes had also been tracked out. Good thing that Oboe's E slopes hadn't seen much traffic - we took care of the surprisingly light pow in those trees and put in three laps.

Sharon on our first shot

James dropping in

Tim very photogenically dressed

The snow wasn't reacting at all to ski cuts. About 40cms of snow btl overlay a denser supportive pack. We switched over to trees and kept hitting lines

Sharon and James then headed over back to the village via Singing Pass. Tim and I went up to Cowboy Ridge to get a last lap. The snow in Cowboy Ridge wasn't as deep as the snow in Oboe but it was certainly fast - it had that fast windbuff quality that allowed us to knock off the slope with a good deal of speed.

Electing for stability we skied the slidepath of a recent avalanche. Recent snow had covered all the old debris and it was pretty good powder all the way down.

Singing Pass trail is in good shape. There is blowdown lower on the trail and some uncovered creeks. Otherwise its fast skiing down to village.

**springsproject** · 12-29-2007, 12:05 AM

Nice shots. That first one is $$$$

**PNW Skier** · 12-29-2007, 12:20 AM

damn! Wish I coulda gone with you guys, and girl. Nice work with the rough lighting today Lee!

**LeeLau** · 12-29-2007, 01:24 AM

from the air!

**Alpine Dreams** · 12-29-2007, 06:59 AM

Sweet....

**KillingCokes** · 12-29-2007, 07:31 AM

You guys seem to be having far too much fun.

**Kya** · 12-30-2007, 11:53 AM

Quality!

**brettf** · 12-30-2007, 12:59 PM

Must... heal... faster.

Thanks for the goodness Lee.

**Kellie** · 12-30-2007, 01:15 PM

Man, I miss tree skiing!!!!

**bigbuds** · 12-30-2007, 05:19 PM

Sick... Whistler is huge inbounds I can only imagine the BC. I'm taking you ride the lifts up to symphony then start the tour from there? How long is the runout to village via the singing pass trail? Just curious as to what kind of tour this was.

**LeeLau** · 12-31-2007, 11:34 PM

it takes about 1 hour from Cowboy Ridge to village. It would take about 1 hour to skin back up to Flute from Cowboy Ridge then another 1/2 hour or so to ski down the runs.

We didn't bother waiting for Symphony but just skied off Peak then down to Boundary Bowl