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Snowy Day at Redearth Creek

Report Submitted by tmalaher
(trip) Date: Wednesday Feb 28, 2024

Submitted: Wednesday Feb 28, 2024 at 18:38

Participants:

Two of us

Discussion:

Clear, windy and hovering around zero at Deadman's Flats, snow started just past Banff.

-10 degC at the trailhead parking lot. Only one other vehicle was there, and based on the amount of snow on it, it had been there for a day or two.

We had read on the Parks Canada site that there had been tracksetting on Feb 25, but there was no evidence of this as a snowmobile had gone up (and down?) the trail. But apparently it was towing a trailer? In any case there were some faint but usable tracks with about a cm of snow in them.

We skied up to the bridge at 7km. There was very little wind, and snow was continuous but light, with tiny pellet-like flakes. It took us 2 hours to ski up. Returning only took an hour.

Temperature was only slightly higher when we returned. Our tracks at the bottom had filled in with 5-8mm of snow. The snowmobile track was a bit narrow, but where snowplowing was needed it still worked quite well, even on the final hill down to the parking lot.

Nobody else on the trail today.

Enjoyed!


Total distance: 14.50 Km

Snowmobile tracks, but they actually worked quite well.