Up practicing how to put on skins at Bow Summit today. Flurries all day and quite comfortable, except in the windy areas (forgot the thermometer). Excellent skiing to be found on the more skier right hand lines just before the bug chutes (left hand lines all chunked up with old tracks). The brief warming last week really helped strengthen the mid pack up there, easy trail breaking and poles didn’t plunge to the ground too often at all, even close to trees.
Watched some skiers ski from the very, very top of the shoulder, ended up in the cliffs and rocks way right looking into the big bowl... They finally got themselves sorted out, but were in big terrain for sure, hope they were wearing their helmets.
It felt more like early season at the pass than early season in the Rockies, but the area needs a good dump now to erase the old tracks, not much left up there.
Rumor has it that Robertson Glacier was again very good on Friday...
Ian Tomm