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WBC: Hostel Loop and beyond

Report Submitted by Alf Skrastins
(trip) Date: Saturday Apr 20, 2024

Submitted: Saturday Apr 20, 2024 at 21:58

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The overnight temperature got down to -15C at West Bragg Creek, so the snow was well frozen in the morning. But it also warmed up to almost +9C, so there was a lot of melting by afternoon.
I did a lap around Hostel Loop... first tracks since the snowfall. Then, I went around Snowshoe Hare, which had a good hiker/snowshoer packed track, then up DemiTel, which had only a few footprints. I cut over to one of the cut blocks between DemiTel and Long Distance to make a few turns in the damp powder snow.
By the time I got back to the parking lot, there was only a thin strip of snow left on that first hill up East Telephone and the Perimeter trail was down to gravel.

Hostel Meadow

Easy trail breaking on Hostel Loop

And even some turns to be had in the cut blocks along DemiTel.