The #1 was not very good driving with compacted snow / ice as we headed west Saturday morning. We made it to the trailhead though to see a ploughed one lane furrow we set off to walk along just after 9:00 am.The furrow only lasted for 200-300 metres so then we donned skis for the 4 Km trek up the Yoho Valley road.Shortly after the switchbacks you come to a bend with a drainage coming in from the left and a bunch of avalanche slopes below Wapta mountain. We took off the road up the drainage eventually following some Grizzly bear tracks (they were a bit melted out but I believe my naturalist guru Bill he had looked closer at this natural phenomenon lower down). The bear kept going up the drainage but we took off right up the looker's left of the big avalanche slope on a good trail.

About 12:30 pm, just above tree-line we stopped for a short lunch break looking at an earlier group ascending the final slope. They skied down as we were having lunch and (surprise) the Golden Rambler Bob stopped by to say hi. Bob was skiing with Geoff(sp?) and Marvin(sp?) from Golden - nice guys who had broken a nice line for us up to the summit. Good skiing in the alpine on this slope prompted them to do another lap. Liz and Grant also did a short extra lap in the upper part.Great views at the summit and wonderful to have a more Rockies bluebird day(there have n't been much this winter) - we could see a lot of Wapta peaks and peaks to the west - I heard a discussion with the Golden experts on Laussedat a prominent peak that deserves more press IMO. A third group joined us and one of their members caused me some puzzlement by saying "I am glad I do n't have to ski that boring road" .... and I am wondering is he going to bush-bash the summer trail ..... no after we had left the summit we saw him para glide off the summit - a beautiful day with not much wind.

On descent there was good skiing in the top third, unfortunately the skiing deteriorated lower down. Alas the valley had not got enough sun / radiant heat to generate some corn. Back at the road things were straightforward to get to the car around 4:30 pm. Damian's GPS recorded 21.6km and an elev gain of 1365m.

Thanks to the Golden boys and Terry, Damian, Liz, Bill and guest Grant for braving the nasty driving earlier in the day - a great day for me to finally ski this one (fourth attempt).

Final slopes to summit Mount Field

Bill on the final few steps to Mount Field summit

Grant enjoying some pretty nice April snow high on Mount Field

Liz, Grant, Bill, Damian, Terry, John on Mt Field summit

For those who care these are the trip reports of my three earlier attempts:
First attemnpt
Second attempt
Third attempt