Riddle me this...

I've been a big fan of riddles recently; and came across a few that I wanted to share here:

Kids
Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, “then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?


Hotel
Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29.
Where is the remaining dollar?

Cowboy
How could a cowboy ride into town on a Friday, stay two days and then ride out on a Friday?




Email me at jjnorm@hotmail.com for answers!

Mt Pattison NW Face and Surrounding Area

A great day in the sunshine taking advantage of LOW avalanche hazards to go and ski some steep lines. I had tried Mt Pattison once last spring but got stopped by visibility. On this day, visibility was not an issue at all! After a few good days inbounds, Andrew, David, Scott and I headed up to east col for what we thought would be a quick trip in the Blackcomb backcountry. We didn't really have a destination in mind and kind of just kept moving as we were feeling good. Traversed across Decker lake and up Decker Ridge to the chute entrance to the Trorey Gl and then enjoyed the long gentle climb eastwards eventually passing Pattison. Once we got that far, there really was no turning back, a brief rest for lunch and we bootpacked up to to Pattison's summit ridge. The skin / walk across the back of Pattison was a little slow due to poor coverage, rocks and exposure below.  There was a very small cornice at the entrance to the face that could be skied over. The Face skied nicely with a little ice under 6cm of snow at the top that all but disappeared as you moved further down. A small amount of sluff followed each of us down as you can see in the photos.

We enjoyed the run down the Trorey Gl but did not enjoy the Skin back up to the Decker Trorey Col as the small amount of fresh snow on top of the crust was sliding easily. The rest of the day was in the late afternoon sunshine as we summit-ed Decker and went out via the 9th hole and disease ridge. A great day in the sunshine!

Slogging across the lake at the bottom of the Circle glacier.

Monashee Powder Catsking

Ski touring is great but it cant compare to being hauled up the slopes by a snow cat to ski about 10x the number of runs you would if you were climbing up on your own. For my mother's 60th we went family cat skiing, had amazing conditions, great food and laughs.

It was cold! -24 C in the morning which made it so the snow wasn't as slippery as I am used to on the coast. Days # 2 and #3 were my favourites one being in an area called Minimilus Ridge and the other exploring the tree runs of the whole tenure - faceshots on nearly every turn. Monashee Powder has a great area to ski in with a great mix of both high alpine runs and tree runs for when the avalanche danger is high. The snow was so deep that my mother was even looking for cliffs for me to jump off!

Resting on the way up

Head Games - Brain Den

Keep your mind alert over the holidays!


This is a great site, with lots of fun little problems to solve. Sarah hates that I found this one!

http://brainden.com/geometry-puzzles.htm

Deep POWDER Asulkan Cabin Rogers Pass Remembrance Day

The deepest snow that I have ever skied was Remembrance Day weekend 2011. The best part about it was that it just kept snowing the entire time so our tracks would be filled in from the day before, even the run before! A similar group had booked the hut the year prior but were disappointed by a heater that wasn't working and a lack of snow.

We left Vancouver on thursday morning very early, drove the 8 hours and began the ~3.5 hour hike up to the hut. It was pretty easy going until it got dark cold and windy for the last 30 minutes, being dehydrated did not help either.

It snowed all day and night Friday, Saturday and Sunday - the snow got lighter and lighter as the weekend went on which made us not want to leave on the last day. We ventured above the hut into the alpine just once only to be greeted by whiteout conditions and heavy heavy winds. The other half of the cabin was rented by a crew from Kelowna that we look forward to seeing again next year (some photos taken from them and most of the rest from Francois, video by Tom).

A Summer Ski

With a great El Nina year, and a ton of snow remaining in the alpine in late July, we headed up to Cypress Peak (between Squamish and Whistler, not the ski hill in Vancouver) for a late July ski. I had been here once previously on a hike in October and had wished I had brought my skis to ski the NW flank.

After spending the night before in whistler being celebrities and sleeping in his Volkswagon Wesfalia, greg and I met up with Tom for a relatively early start. It was a bit of a difficult climb through stee sections as the top crust was melting and not bonding to the pack below. All in all a great july day!

Signing Autographs after a hard day of the BC Bike Race