Valhalla Trip 2010

Valhalla Mountain Touring Trip 31 Jan - 7 Feb 2010

Valhalla Mountain Touring is in central British Columbia, about 40 miles NNW of Nelson. Here's some basic information:

The lodge is a beautiful wood beam building, sleeps about 12 comfortably with double and triple bunk rooms, and has a large dinning / kitchen / living area
The lodge is at about 5800ft, about 1hr by snow-cat from the nearest road. The advantage of cat access over heli is no weather holds. Co-ordinates if you want to look on Google Earth, etc. are N50 05 29.7 W117 35 24.5.
There is electric for lighting, stereo, heating, etc., supplied from a micro-hydro installation, and a pretty good satellite internet connection.
Main lodge is heated by wood-stove. A wood-fired sauna, shower, and drying room are in the near-by out-building
Generally there are two guides for 12 clients
All skiing is under your own power (skin up, ski down). We did a little over 6000ft per day. The terrain accessed from the lodge is a mixture of trees and alpine, depending on weather and conditions.
For a catered stay the cook prepares breakfast, lays out sandwich items for lunch, makes appetizers for the return from skiing, and serves dinner about 7pm. And the food is good.
The pick-up point is near New Denver BC, which is about 60mi (35mi as the crow flies) from Nelson, and about 200mi north of Spokane. Pick-up is about 11am Sunday, drop-off about 9:30am the following Sunday.

Times and distances for our skiing day-by-day (some times are over-estimates)
Maps with track for each day's skiing, printed from Garmin - more detailed and less detailed