WBC: Hostel Loop and beyond
Trip date: Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Submitted by Alf Skrastins
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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.