My fellow guides, Craig Hollinger, Eric Vezeau, and I guided around Crowfoot Pass today. Nice to see, and ski, a supportive snowpack in the Rockies. We got snow depths of 85-125 cm in the valley floor and 200 cm up on the Bench route. We also experienced some whumpfing in shallow snow areas. Larger open slopes are spookier than normal given the size of the avalanches this year, and how far they are running. We kept our distance. There was some fine turns down the Creek Bed route below treeline.
Of note, the Num Ti Jah Lodge parking lot is not plowed out and is not passable. Apparently the same is true for the Bow Summit parking lot.
Happy trails,
Barry Blanchard
Mountain Guide
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