Wapta traverse
Trip date: Friday Mar 10, 2023
Submitted by Dave P
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Completed the Wapta traverse last weekend. Peyto hut to Balfour hut, Scott Duncan and out to Sherbrooke lake. The snow conditions were quite good depending where you were. Some slopes were windslab some were nice soft powder about 6cm deep. There are definitely a few sketchy slopes to be avoided due to the deep facet layer. These slopes are not on the glaciers but usually on the approaches and exits to the glacier. Probed anywhere from 1 meter to 2 meters of snowpack on the ice which is quite low for March. There were other tracks to follow which proved useful if we followed the right one. Ski out to Sherbrooke and ski in to peyto lake was the usual comedy of falling throught the trees.