Whistler February - March 2022 Part 4 - Snow, Inverted Drinks & Howe Sound - Days 6-8 Return to Snowboarding Home Page

Flute Mountain at Whistler

 
  

At the top of Flute - Phallic tracks from a Snowshoe Hare and in case Ray Mears is checking... the direction of travel was top to bottom or cock to balls as I'm sure true bushcraft experts would describe it...

 

Andy on the ridge down to Little Flute Bowl...

 
 

Well worth the hike - Little Flute Bowl and with lots more untracked below to come...

 

Looking across to Flute Bowl from the top of Symphony Chair...

 

 

The Flute Summit Four...
 

 

 



Last evening and our boards propped outside the El Furniture Warehouse bar...

 

 

 

After a few regular beers, the Inverted Warehouse Margaritas temptation became all too much...
 

 

 
Inverted...
 

 

Very inverted...

 

Hot tub at the apartment...

 

Totem in town...
 

 

Howe Sound...

Right hand side seat secured on the bus down and time to enjoy the views...
 

 
 

Trying to ignore the yelling kids a couple of seats in front...
 

 

 
 
Getting closer to the ocean...
 

 

Crossing Lions Gate Bridge looking towards North Vancouver...

 

Welcome to Vancouver - I've done this trip many times since first coming in 1997 and the clearance of all the low rise residential homes had accelerated massively to be replaced by apartment blocks - what were left were a little sad to see, rows of them slightly run down and with 'for sale' signs up...

   

 
 

Built on Sea Island not much higher than sea level, so tankers and planes look to be on the same level...
  

 

 
Worth exploring...
 

 

 
Some of the many dogs of Japadog...
     
 

 

My choice of hound and very nice it was too...
 

 

 
A fine mission statement...
 

 

Less glitzy place names as we come in to land...