christinalusti

High Pressure Continues. . .

christinalusti — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:48:01 +0000

Here are some pictures from the last two days.

Tuesday Feb.14th: Joey, Mark, and I chased Greg Hill up to the summits of North Fidelity and Corbins.

Wednesday Feb.15th: Julie, Zoya, Conor and I went for a wander in the southern Selkirks to find great skiing, sunshine, and a summit.

Now it is off to the coast, heading into Whitecap Alpine Touring for a week of skiing (training) stoked to go back. . check it out if you haven’t : http://www.whitecapalpine.ca/

Me skiing off Fidelity in my New Arc’teryx outfit !!

Photo Credit Joey Vosburgh

Summit of Corbin’s and our ski run down.

Mark up’in on the boot pack.

Joey on the descent of Corbin’s

Feb.15th

Zoya’s got POW!

Ridge walk home.

Conor showboating

Avalanche Mountain. By Joey Vosburgh

christinalusti — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:52:23 +0000

Check out Joeys Vosburgh’s Video : http://vimeo.com/36612745

and Blog: http://trappersnowboards.com/joey/?p=1929

Great Day Crew!

High Pressure

christinalusti — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:27:39 +0000

Most people love powder . . . I am not saying I don’t love skiing bottomless snow! But there is nothing quite like skiing steep alpine lines from the summit of a mountain; add sunshine and good friends and that’s what I call living !!

The weather went high pressure after one day of being home from the coast !!

Here are a few pictures from the last few days . . . and a little video of my friends loving life !

Photo credit Aaron Chance

check out more at: http://visionsofchance.com/

Avalanche South Ridge.

Summit of Avalanche.

Photo credit Aaron Chance

Ty Mills Rocking the Rock step on the Jupiter Traverse.

Me on the Jupiter Traverse.

Hight Pressure Smile.

Jupiter Train.

A few days in the sun !

http://www.arcteryx.com/?EN

Recommended for a good time !

christinalusti — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:47:05 +0000

ACMG: Assistant Ski Guide Touring Training.

I just recently finished the 3rd of the 3 Assistant Ski Guide Training courses. This last course was the ski touring course held on the Coast. We spent 7 days training and ski touring around the Whistler and Duffey Lake area. Most of this terrain was new to me, making the training difficult and a great learning experience . The challenge of on-sighting terrain from your map is such a great skill to have and something I find challenging and exciting trying to perfect.

The course was instructed by three very knowledgeable Mountain Guides, Steve Ludwig, Helen Sovdat, and Matt Peter. We spent one day skiing off Whistler Resort, three days two nights of winter camping on the Duffey, and our last day off Blackcomb Ski Resort.

With good feedback and coaching along the way I have now been recommended to take the ACMG Assistant Ski Guide Exam!

Looking like the Rockies. . .STOKED !!

Now It is back to “Training” !!

Kate Devine, my aspiring ski guide partner in crime!

(we have no fun at all)

The bad skiing, makes great training !

Video of days skiing with friends

The Coast Part 1

The Coast Part 2

Whitecap Training Camp

christinalusti — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:57:18 +0000

A little place called, Whitecap !!!

Whitecap Alpine, McGilvray Pass, Chilcton Mountains, British Columbia. © Paul H Wright

Coach: Lars Andrews

Team: Veronika Vackova, Kitt Redhead, Danny Uhlmann, Christina Lustenberger

Check out Whitecap Alpine Touring: http://www.whitecapalpine.ca/skiing-snowboarding/abilities-programs/

Thanks Lars for the great training camp!

Best of 2011

christinalusti — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:19:15 +0000

A few highlights and favorites from 2011

Very excited about where I am, what I am doing, and the people I have in my life!

I cant wait to see what 2012 has to bring!!!

Girl trips to the mountains.

“huttenzauber”

First Descent.

Sister ski.

Ski Bums.

climbing with your shirt off.

Skiing with my parents.

Road trip with my red van family.

skiing with Izzy.

Being silly like, with T Man.

steep skiing <3

Happy New Year!! 2012 will be Great !!!

A few links from last season :

http://biglines.com/video/christina-lusti-lustenberger-video-and-interview

http://biglines.com/articles/adamant-lust-april132011

http://biglines.com/video/swiss-times

http://biglines.com/video/swiss-peaks-neutrality

Winter Solstice. Sunny Alpine. Smiling Faces.

christinalusti — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:46:37 +0000

There is nothing better than a sunny day in the alpine, standing on a snow covered summit, and skiing amazing untracked powder. Yesterday was one of those days that made me smile all day. . . and it was not just because my cheeks were frozen!

Kate, Sam, and I started up the Asulkan Valley towards Sapphire Col, and then climbed the west ridge of Castor; a sub peak of Mount Jupiter. On the summit (2777m) Kate and I serenaded Sam with a “Happy Birthday”song:)

Carefully down climbing off the summit, I was happy to click into my skis again! We skied south onto the Swanzy Glacier, with a short bump to the Col, and fresh tracks down the Lily Glacier. With daylight fading we managed to milk every last bit of light, skiing out of the Loop Brook Valley. Skis off and thumbs out. . .lucky to hitch a ride back to the Asulkan Parking lot where we left my truck.

another great day in the alpine

Jupiter in the distance

under the cleaver

Sapphire Col

Kate getting to the top

always smiles on the summit

Sam the Birthday Boy

Swiss Couloir, December.7,2011

christinalusti — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:58:57 +0000

Couloir: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A couloir (from the French word meaning “passage” or “corridor,”) is a narrow gully with a steep gradient in a mountainous terrain.^[1] A couloir may be a seam, scar, or fissure, or vertical crevasse in an otherwise solid mountain mass

*First GoPro Edit

Neighbour ski.

christinalusti — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:13:07 +0000

I have the best neighbours ever, Izzy and Zoya Lynch!

Girls ski date in Rogers Pass!!

Early morning concentration . . . gotta keep er on the road if you want to ski powder all day !!

look no hands!

Izzy, Zoya,myself.

Stretching

sometimes the up is just as fun!

This time the powder won!

Izzy shredding.

Smile if you like powder

ACMG assistant ski guide training

christinalusti — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:34:11 +0000

A week up at Mustang Powder Cats for some powder skiing. . . I mean ACMG mechanized training!

crevasse rescue training.

learning the fine art of downhill guiding. . . ski fall line !

Trevor’s Monashee powder smile !

Next course is January 22-28th (a week of coastal ski touring) cant wait!

now back to training!

I love to ski