big blue beanie : ADDENDUM
Trip date: Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Submitted by aqua toque
Particpants:
aqua toque
Discussion:
Here is some additional information 3 days subsequent to the trip Masid and I did into this particular objective. I headed back with the intention of using the track we set to the top of the run for the purpose of investigating access to terrain above and beyond on Quirk Ridge.
There had only been a few cms of new snow so the track was easy to follow and it was interesting to see how all manner of critters, big and small, had made use of it. One individual with rather large paws followed it for quite some way along the Elbow. He seemed to have had issues at the first boulder-strewn section and bailed at that point (wimp).
In the Quirk Creek drainage a herd of horses had post-holed the dickens out of the trail! How do I know it was horses you ask? Well, they left unmistakable "trail apples" along the path.
Only to say, all of this reminded me of a comment I had made to MaSid alluding to the valuable and selfless public service we were providing by setting this track!
The findings on Quirk Ridge were moderately moderate and some details are included in the photo captions below.
Acceptable but far from optimal TC2T (again, turns close to town, see acronyms) were had on the ski down BBB. The top 2/3 of the run was about the same as the last trip in. Lower down variable weather had resulted in a variety of sun crust, wind crust, melt-freeze crust and crusty bun crust.