Wapta
nickkeenan,
Monday 17th February, 2025 2:00PM
3 days on the Wapta starting at Bow lake. Extremely windy on Sat above Bow Hut, not the best place to find some Pow turns with widespread wind affect on the glacier. Coverage on the glaciers was generally quite good. Only place we measured height of snow was on vulture Glacier with a 200cm snowpack. Travel was reasonably slow with the 25-30cms of consolidated snow providing too much resistance to ski down the low angle glaciers. Expect to be walking downhill as well as uphill. 1 other party completed same time as us but started at Peyto lake, they reported snow coverage was extremely thin/ non existant on the Peyto approach with minimal snow until the glacier. Would recommend starting at Bow Lake until we get more snow. Exit via Sherbrooke Creek was fine, no issues with coverage there. See snowpack section for more specific details on snow coverage.






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