With the economic state and lack of mining, Stewart is pretty much a ghost town in the winter.

A few hard-core sled necks are pretty much the only people going into these mountains.

The crew consists of Kye Petersen, Callum Pettit, Sammy Carson and myself.

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Being with such a youthful group of skiers was nice to see — energy and fearlessness.

The mountains here are pretty intense, poking right up out of glacier ice fields.

At times the peaks look small because of the massive expanse of snow-covered glaciers in between them.

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Light is a big curveball this time of year.

Our guides played a big roll with the knowledge of terrain and aspects.

Some days were sunny, others were cloudy — typical Coastal Mountain ski adventure.

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Luckily the terrain here offers many pillow-y tree runs below the Alpine for cloudy or snowy days.

We were even able to keep up with the Olympics.

There was a lot of curling on, so we inquired and found that we could curl.

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