Blue sky day and very nice snow conditions. There wasn't a lot of snow on the highway shoulder near Lake Louise, so we wondered what we had got ourselves into. But once we started we found soft snow and reasonably good track sets. -14C at the start made it a little challenging on the steeper uphills for the two skin skiers. The two wax skiers had no problems using blue (-3 to -8).

Glorious Day at Mud Lake

Group at Mud Lake

The group was very strong and motivated due to the great snow conditions so we skied all the trails including the one between the two parking lot accesses.

At Pipestone Pond

On the trail

Meadow on the west side of Pipestone loop

Distance just over 25km.Start shortly after 10:00am and finish around 3:30pm with 2 lunch breaks and a number of mountain photo stop breaks. Temperature at finish around -3C. Snow on slopes in the sun was starting to crust a small amount. Supportive base when off trail.

Blue sky views of summits

Pope's Peak

Thanks to participants: James, Jane and Tina for a wonderful day of skiing.

Bob C/S

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