I have Copyed Ross's discription because he describes it best.
Hey All,
Just arrived home from three great days of ski touringwith Ross Mailloux, Jeff MacPherson, Marc-Andre Cousineau and ChrisHaywood.
Day 1 we fired a 1000m up-track towards the col aboveEmerald Lake slidepath, noses out and ears perked,waiting for signs of instability. The conditions andsnow were oddly silent and after digging around wefound a pretty decent pack with about 180cm at around2160m, no major reactive layers either...hmmm. Weripped the skins off and let the skis run. Crankingthe first turn the snow hit the knees, the second andthird turns blew our minds as perfect rocky mountainpowder eventually hit our waists and caused enormoussmiles to span our shiny faces. Steak and scotchawaited us at the Hostel, as well as enormous talk forthe upcoming days.
Day 2 we ventured to the "snow zone", a line of peaksjust east of the south wapta that seems to trap absurdamounts of snow. Last year for instance, we found 2+mof snow there in December, perfect untracked dreamruns and bowls noboday seems to go to. Deep andperfect snow awaited as we went back up tp the sunnysummit of one of the peaks as many times as we could,trying to soak it all in and revel at some of thedeepest and best snow we had seen-anywhere. With thefading light, we shot back to the trees and made ourway to the highway and to the huge meal and sauna weknew was waiting.
Day 3 we awoke tired and content from skiing dark todark days in a row and a relaxing pace was in order.We skied up the frozen creek and canyons leading to avalley south of Observation peak in the bow summitarea. A weak snowpack and highwinds kept us fromventuring too high but allowed us a few nice runs inthe trees as well as another great day in themountains with good company. We could smell the darkroast coffee and pastries at Laggans so we did theluge run out to the road and answered the call inshort order, reflective and happy.
A stellar few days!
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