Brent Kearney

Its amazing how much terrain that you can cover in a morning at Sunshine. We started off yesterday by skinning out to Wawa Ridge. The travel conditions were good, but the snow at the ridge was very skied out from the past few days, with a mixed condition sun crust that was quite difficult to ski.

Back to the subject of massive terrain, from wawa I took a photo of the Delirium Dive area, and then from Delirium Dive took a photo of Wawa, to illustrate how much area we covered in only 3 hours. The red squares in the photos indicate the locations from which I took the shots. Here is Delirium Dive, shot from Wawa Ridge:

The conditions in the Dive were pretty good in general, considering the lack of snow over the past few days. There was about 15cm of loose snow at the very top, then some difficult crust closer to the first set of rock-bands, followed by packed powder that made for some nice turns. We took a skier’s right at the bottom and skied Fat Boy, where there was about 20cm of nice loose snow on top of a soft crust; IMO the best skiing in the whole area.

Here is Wawa Ridge, as seen from the top of Galaxy 1 chute in Delirium Dive; the red square indicates the area that the above shot was taken from:

The Wawa-Delirium circuit provides a nice little mini-adventure that, with the appropriate gear, can be easily covered in a morning.