Start when it's hard in the valley of the Bard

Not quite a tragedy but we ended up in the Capulet Creek area a bit too late to start ascending after being turned around at Schoen Lake. The access assessment was quite worthwhile though. Expect a bit of bush pinstriping on the Rooney Lake Main. We parked at about 900m, just below the RL680 branch and had a short walk in patchy road coverage, following a few old ski tracks slowly disappearing with the low elevation snow. We turned around about 1km back from the end of the Rooney Lake Main. The area looks like it still has good potential for a daytrip with sleds not really needed to cover the short approach distance. A final look up the Owen Creek drainange was worth the time as well, however old avalanches block the last few km of the road, just beyond Owen Lake. Tick tock! ;)