Leave Calgary carpool location at 7:30 am after signing waivers.
Head to the Sunshine Village back parking lot.
Skin up the Healy Pass trail past the Sunshine Creek bridge and 500 m later swerve north to ascend up the Bourgeau Meadows drainage.
More details are provided in Marcus Baranow's Confessions of a Ski Bum guidebook, and also one can refer to this link at fatmap.com There may be a wee bit of bootpacking on the immediate far side of the Healy Creek bank. Otherwise, its mellow angled slopes with little overhead hazard which will help minimize our avalanche exposure, paricularly important given existing snowpack conditions.
How to Get There:
Event Directions:
Meet at 189 Patterson Hill (east of COP ski jump off Old Banff Coach Road) at 7:30 am.
Its 8km in and 800m up from the trailhead (Sunshine Village back parking lot) to the top of the low angled slopes of Bourgeau Meadows.
Carpool Departure Time:
07:30 AM
Carpool Location:
189 Patterson Hill SW
Notes:
This is a "Slowpokes" trip. Also, your trip coordinator is now a senior! Slow easy pace is the name of the game here, we'll be lucky to hit 2 km/h and 200 v-m/hour. Still, ya can't keep us down! ; -)
Fellow slowpokes are most welcome, or anyone not minding slow pace that also has AST-1 training.
Please send a short ski bio if we have not skied together before or if such info is not already on your club website bio. Thank you.
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Registration for this event closed on Friday, March 10, 2023 at 08:30 PM.