

Sunny but sun baked and rained on and then frozen. Icy ruts and then too warm and slushy with dirt patches and rocks. Lots of runs up top with Don Y. geophysicist at CNQ.
Sunny but sun baked and rained on and then frozen. Icy ruts and then too warm and slushy with dirt patches and rocks. Lots of runs up top with Don Y. geophysicist at CNQ.
Sunny warm day with Rod. Packed snow so microspikes all the way up and down.
Lots of people and dogs. Windy up top. 8 km and 763 m.
Diana Lake which is about 50 km South of Golden. Nice valley in the Rockies just outside of Kootenay Park.
Trip was a 4 day Heli in-out backcountry ski trip.
Nice cabin with separate modern bunkhouse and sauna/shower buildings.
Snowshoe and scramble Thrift peak on Dec 16 with Doug Lutz.
Picked a direct route up a treed ridge to access main ridge. Crossed river on ice bridge and snowshoed up through trees. Bypassed a fence through an open gate and then heavy work trail breaking in thigh deep sugar snow up to ridge. Ridge was more narrow, treed and corniced than expected and I ran out of motivation but Doug went over to the Lookout.
About 8 km and 885 m RT to lookout
Pics here