There’s a new snowfa in louise-town

Trip date: Wednesday Jan 11, 2023

Submitted by MaSid

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With plenty of room for more! -15 to start at 830 in the train station lot at the base of tramline. -10 on return at 330. Tramline and Fairview in great shape. Glad the heritage guides flat packed the snowfa zone, otherwise it wouldn’t have got done. Anything outside the packing produced lousy blocks. What I did harvest is pretty much now down to ground. Shallow faceted snow pack (don’t step off the trail!). Did the bow river loop on return. Shallow and a bit twiggy in places but not so bad. One dirty bit on the final leg back to the train station on the NW side. And the best part of course was running into Bob, Cheryl and Susie while enjoying the last bit of sun (bring your foamy tomorrow bob, or zip down to Wilson’s to get one).

The snowfa needs some love (and ski bums in seats) to keep it alive. Snow in the forecast. Pack down the whole seat if you can, using spare mitts or your pack. Intermittent trees shadows until 1230, then it’s full on sun, until it ain’t.