"I came up with an excuse to get out of work early and headed up Seymour to meet up with some buddies to shred some pow after a nice late season dump on the coast. 30 minutes later I was hiking into the Seymour backcountry to hopefully find these guys.

Ended up meeting up with them at a little cliff called Dead Sailor not too far along my hike. Tracked all the shady powder there was to track at that little zone, then I convinced Rupert to hike the rest of the way up First Peak to get a top to bottom run in. Anything that had been in the sun was pretty nasty, but this little zone in the shade off of First Peak looked pretty nice."

Photo & words by Eldon Sparks

Rupert Davies tweaking out a natural method off the east side of First Pump Peak on the last day of March 2010 -- click to enlarge