TR: Sorceror Lodge hut trip - Feb 24 - March 3, 2007

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

TR: Sorceror Lodge hut trip - Feb 24 - March 3, 2007

Lots of big glaciers, lots of turns, tons of snow. Classic Selkirk terrain

Click here for more http://www.leelau.net/2007/sorceror0704/day1/

Lucy · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Wow, nice work Lee and really impressive to see what your group covered in the time you were there, particularly self-guided...lots of great information you have up on your home page as well! We were at Sorcerer a few weeks earlier, and you are shaming me into getting my crap together for our TR! Embarassed

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

Nice pic of you on the cover page lucy - tanis said she really liked that shot

More on day 2 - http://www.leelau.net/2007/sorceror0704/day2/

bluuu · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the great TR Lee.
We were there last year, and are going there again this year... there is still lots left to explore. Glad your trip was such great fun.

Marcus · Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 380 Location: Seattle

Great stuff Lee. My friend Nate put together the pics and a movie from our own Sorcerer stay on 2/10-17.

http://www.evilfungus.com/trogs/sorceror07.html

We didn't have HALF the decent visibility you guys did -- way to take advantage of it!

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

wow - nice writeup. You got there before the surface hoar problem.

I looked at Wizard and it scared me

"Mike and Andrea and a few others went up the Wizard and skied a line down to the col above Ventigo Lake just past the Heinous Traverse.

perhaps a dumb question but how on earth does one approach Wizard without being exposed the entire way up.

Marcus · Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 380 Location: Seattle

Well, you're exposed the entire way up, that's for sure. If you head up from the hut, before dropping down into the gullies on the right, you can climb up the ribs on the southeast face between the major gully features. We had good stability while we were there, with 20-30 cm of light snow above the surface hoar that became a problem toward the end of the week. It was all sluff and fairly easy to manage, though it began to consolidate by week's end.

Anyway, re: the Wizard -- we booted straight up those ribs and, over the course of the week, skied the line down the back (above the supercouloir), skied the nose down into the gully above ventego creek, and skied all 3 big gullies on the face toward the cabin. Like I said, stability was excellent.

Loose Skin · Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Vancouver, BC

Lee,
Thanks for posting such a great TR so far. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your photos, as they bring back memories of the good times we had at Sorcerer a few years ago. That shot of skinning up with Iconoclast in the back is spectacular. I also love that line down Critical Thursday - looks like it was in great shape for you guys.

Did you get Merrie-Beth to sing?

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

ha merrie-beth sang all the way up the skintrack that someone stuck right up the run to wizard gullies. She's pretty cool.

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

Day 3 - Swiss Col snowy goodness ! http://www.leelau.net/2007/sorceror0704/day3/

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

Some random lodge panoramas. The Sorceror Lodge hut is in a beautiful setting sandwiched on a high alpine knoll at the toe of glacial moraine close to three large glaciers; the Escargot, the Nordic and the Perfect Glacier. It's on bedrock above an alpine lake.

Here's the lodge in the morning

Here's the view from the lodge's back deck on a cold clear windless moonlit night -

and the lodge again

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

more from day 4 - http://www.leelau.net/2007/sorceror0704/day4/

LeeL · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1223 Location: North Vancouver

Day 5 - pillows and powder - click here for more http://www.leelau.net/2007/sorceror0704/day5/

Bob T · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:

Lee, those are completely awesome photos! The ones with Orion in them are stunning. I was sorry hear of your photos getting ripped off, but I sure can see why they wanted them.

bigsteve · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 506 Location: Alberta Rockies

A fine TR, dishing it out in installments keeps us hungry for more!
Speaking of which, Didi's cooking is even better than her skiing, and that's saying something.
I'm enjoying the great shots of skiers in action, most of whom we met and skied with last year,
when we were custodians at Campbell Icefield. There are some scenics in the first few episodes that really grab me though;

I'm going to send out your TR to our usual crowd, to entice them to Sorcerer next year.
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