Description

A Guided, Catered, hut-to-hut crossing of the
Bow-Yoho
Traverse located in Banff and Yoho National
Parks.

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Book this trip directly through Tom Wolfe at:
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This 8-day itinerary is longer than most other
Bow-Yoho trips
offered, giving us more time to explore the
incredible ski mountaineering
available instead of putting our heads down and
charging
through the traverse.

What’s included: ALL accommodation (7 nights
including one
night at the lovely Truffle Pigs Lodge, and 6
nights
in Alpine Club of Canada
backcountry huts), ALL meals from dinner on
March 16 to lunch
on March 23, Guiding.

What’s not included: Equipment, transportation,
alcoholic
beverages

Price: $1795 CAD, $1650 for Vancouver ACC
members!

Itinerary

Day 1: Friday, March 16 – Truffle Pigs Bistro &
Lodge, Field, BC
6:00 pm — Introductions over dinner in Field,
BC at the “Truffle
Pigs Bistro” (dinner is included in your trip
fees).
In case you haven’t heard of
it — this is one of the finest
restaurants in the Canadian Rockies! After
dinner it’s back to
your rooms where your guide will pay you a
brief
visit for an equipment check
and distribution of group gear and
food.

Day 2: Saturday, March 17 – Bow Hut
8:00 am — a leisurely breakfast, again at the
Truffle Pigs cafe.
Bagged lunches will be provided by Kicking
Horse
Lodge. Make sure your
backpacks and ski gear are packed and
ready to go. 9:00 am — depart for the trail
head at Bow Lake
(Num-ti-jah Lodge parking lot)
The ski from Bow Lake to Bow Hut takes anywhere
from 3 to 5
hours depending on conditions and group speed.
There should be time left at
the end of a day for a quick lap on
the awesome slopes above Bow Hut at the end of
the day.

Day 3: Sunday, March 18 – Bow Hut
Bow Hut is a large and crowded hut, but it also
offers quick
access to some of the Wapta’s plum ski
mountaineering objectives such as Mt.
Olive, Mt. Gordon, Mt. St. Nick, Mt. Rhondda,
and Mt. Haebel.
We’ve got all day, with light packs, so we’ll
be
sure to get full value out of our
time there.

Day 4: Monday, March 19 – Guy Hut
Traverse day. We’ll set our course west for the
Guy Hut,
traversing over the Gordon-Rhondda pass, over
the
Yoho Glacier’s gnarly icefall,
below the spectacular Mt. Collie, and a short
distance down to
our hut below Yoho Peak.

Day 5: Tuesday, March 20 – Guy Hut
In the middle of the Waputik Icefields,
cascading glacial ice in all
directions along with tempting ski
mountaineering objectives. The plum of
the zone is Mt. Des Poilus. The best run, right
out ot the door
step, is the steep Diretissima down to the Yoho
Glacier.

Day 6: Wednesday, March 21 – Stanley Mitchell
Hut
There are two ways to get to Stanley Mitchell
Hut, both pretty
darned exciting. The first, over Isolated Col,
is
steep and relentlessly exposed
to avalanche hazard. The second is over the
Whaleback,
preferably the high route which offers a really
fun ski
descent through a lightly treed
avalanche path to the valley bottom and then a
trudge up-valley
to the famous and ancient Stanley Mitchell Hut.
This old log structure has
been shelter to thousands of skiers since the
early days of
mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies.

Day 7: Thursday, March 22 – Stanley Mitchell
Hut
If you’re in the Little Yoho Valley with the
wood stove crackling
then you will definitely want to stay for at
least
one more night…. So that’s
our plan. Our last full day of adventure offers
opportunities at
bagging the Presidents, Mount MacArthur,
Isolated
Peak, or doing some cool
loop trips.

Day 8: Friday, March 23 – Trip conclusion
The ski out from Stanley Mitchell Hut is best
if you can head up
over the Iceline trail and out via Yoho Pass
and
Emerald Lake Lodge. This
requires good stability and cool conditions, so
we might have to
slog out via Takakkaw Falls road. Either way,
we
will aim to be back in Field
by 2 pm at the latest. This is the end of the
trip. You have the
option of kicking back by the shores of the
Kicking
Horse for another night
(extra charge applies) or jetting back home.