{"id":818,"date":"2011-12-18T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=818"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T05:19:27","slug":"purple-bowl-dec-162011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/purple-bowl-dec-162011\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Bowl – ski Dec 16\/2011 Wolverine ridge lake louise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Purple bowl\/valley aka wolverine valley by Lake Louise ski hill Wolverine ridge<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leisurely AT trip into Purple bowl –\u00a0 beside Lake Louise with Clayton.\u00a0 See Chic’s Ski Trails Book – Skied up to above Temple lodge(45 min). \u00a0Took Skoki summer trail which is 70m uphill from\u00a0winter XC ski trail.\u00a0 Follow trail for .4 km then took a cutline which goes up to right off the trail high point(orange skidoo sign).\u00a0 This had a broke trail which contoured around the North end of Wolverine ridge (Chic calls Silvertip ridge)and up into the valley.\u00a0 This is much better than going further on the Skoki trail (and down) to use the narrow drainage to access the valley as we did in the past. Also allows you to glide all the way out with no regaining of elevation.<\/p>\n

Higher up near the end\u00a0of the \u00a0valley at the headwall, we took a drainage which goes up to left in the trees and then cuts right to go up a ramp to access a col on Wolverine ridge(~2.5 hours with stops – 500 to 600m?).\u00a0 From here you can go up the ridge to Purple peak (another 150 to 200m elev) which was mostly blown clear.<\/p>\n

Later in year with good snow coverage and good avi conditions can drop right into Woverine bowl from up near purple peak and come out on Larch runs.\u00a0 Qualifiers – \u00a0Steep, avi risk, route finding in trees and cliffs,\u00a0 use at own risk\u00a0, etc. \u00a0See exit to Larch runs at<\/a> \u00a0 The Powder 8 championships where held in this bowl back whenever.<\/p>\n

or drop left into Purple bowl (less steep) and come down around the headwall towards Redoubt side. Avi risk, etc.<\/p>\n

You can also travel Northish along Wolverine ridge(chic calls Silvertip ridge)\u00a0and drop off the right side(NE) in many places for good short runs in thin trees back down to your uptrack in the valley. \u00a0Note people have died in avalanches here. \u00a0 This is same NEish aspect as the recent Coral 3 slide which was described\/pic in the MCR. We found lots of collapsable sugar snow below a midpack firm layer so we skied back along our uptrack (hit one rock at the base of the headwall drainage)and then glided back on the track with only minor poling. Fast out to car from col of less than 30 – 40 min and only 8 min from ski hill.<\/p>\n

Good trip for short days or poor weather – Can do laps on side of ridge, etc.<\/p>\n

Poor pics due to condensation on camera due to carrying camera in pocket.<\/p>\n

Pics here Purple Bowl<\/a><\/p>\n

Note – some confusion on naming as Chic has this bowl as Purple bowl and Wolverine bowel used to be called Purple bowl.<\/p>\n

More pics at Purple Peak\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0, Purple Bowl<\/a>\u00a0and Lipallian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Leisurely AT trip into Purple bowl –\u00a0 beside Lake Louise with Clayton.\u00a0 See Chic’s Ski Trails Book – Skied up to above Temple lodge(45 min). \u00a0Took Skoki summer trail which is 70m uphill from\u00a0winter XC ski trail.\u00a0 Follow … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[45,16,43,14,23,54,25,37,17,7,44,33,31,13],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backcountry-ski","category-ski","tag-alberta","tag-alpine","tag-alpine-touring","tag-backcountry","tag-banff","tag-park","tag-powder","tag-ridge","tag-rockies","tag-ski","tag-ski-mountaineering","tag-skoki","tag-snow","tag-tele"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}