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2024-03-15 at 20:11 - comment by MaSid
It happens to us all. Especially when it looks so different with all this snow but not much on the trees.
2024-03-15 at 16:46 - comment by CMS
No, we just followed your track. I was merrily skiing along, chatting with my friends, not paying attention until I looked up and saw trackset ahead and realized it was the Elk Pass trail. It would have been easy to do had I been watching where I was going.
2024-03-15 at 15:21 - comment by MaSid
Did you break a trail in through the normal route on Patterson meadows? If so, thanks for doing that. I exited the cut block right at the normal (flagged) entry to west elk, so probably further south as you suggested. I always find it hard to spot that entry when coming down the power line. It could do with a “gate” like feature with just a horizontal tree wedged into two others high up.
2024-03-15 at 15:08 - comment by CMS
Yes, I noticed the alternate route through Patterson Meadows. I have been through the "normal" route. Perhaps you came down the clearcut farther south than where we cut off the powerline over to the West Elk Pass trail because I think we saw you at Blueberry Junction, and my friend asked you about your bindings.
2024-03-14 at 14:30 - comment by MaSid
Note that the Wednesday track through Patterson meadows wasn’t the normal route. I followed Alf and teams old burried track to see where it went. It took a more westerly forested line in a direct south direction and ended up on the elk pass grooming west of elk pass (not a shortcut or with long open views). Normally it would take a more SE direction through the larger meadows and intersect with hydroline just north of elk pass. I didn’t see any fresh tracks through west elk, breaking my own trail through to blueberry. If you were on a freshly broken track through west elk, you must have missed seeing my down track through the cut block (took the conservative LT line that may not have been visible). I started descending the cut block about noon and probably went through west elk about 1230-1.
Elk Pass thru West Elk Pass
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(trip) Date: Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Submitted: Thursday Mar 14, 2024 at 12:27
Participants:
me & 2 others
Discussion:
After following MaSid's trail through Patterson Meadows and lunching at Elk Pass in no wind (a rarity) we skied south down the power line into BC, then veered off to join the West Elk Pass trail. Maybe we were there just before MaSid because there were no ski tracks visible in the clearcut.
 Skiing down the power line into BC.
 View from lower end of West Elk Pass meadows.
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