Description

Please note the date has changed to April 1-
7, 2018. This is final.

Photos from our April 2018 trip:

(c) 2018 Sawback
Alpine Adventures.

Back due to popular demand! In 2018 we ran two
sold-out trips on the Bow Yoho. Both trips were
very successful with strong positive reviews
from the participants.

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

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PACKAGE

A separate registration is required, Tom will
contact you once you’ve signed up for this
section trip with details. If you have any
questions about this trip you can contact Tom
at
twolfe@sawback
.com.

This 7-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 (6 nights
including one night at the lovely
Truffle Pigs
Lodge, and 5 nights in Alpine
Club of Canada
backcountry huts), ALL meals from dinner on
April 1 to lunch on April 7, Guiding.

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

Price: $1795 CAD, $1645 for Vancouver ACC
members!

Itinerary

Day 1: Monday, April 1 – 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 hotel
rooms where your guide will pay you a brief
visit for an equipment check and distribution
of group gear and food.

Day 2: Tuesday – 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: Wednesday – 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 4: Thursday – Guy Hut – Peak
bagging day.
The Guy Hut is not only the premiere hut on the
Wapta, it’s also an excellent staging point for
many of the great ski runs in the area
including Yoho Peak N and SE faces, Des Poilus
SE face, the subpeak to the north of Des
Poilus, Mt. Collie, to name the plums of the
area!

Day 5: Friday – 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 on both the north and south sides. The
second is over the Whaleback, which has less
avalanche hazard and which in the right
conditions offers a good 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. In the
winter of 2018 — all three times! — avalanche
hazard was low, so we dropped our loads at the
top of Isolated col for a hot lap on the
outstanding 300 m north facing side (back
towards Des Poilus) for an outstanding powder
run, and completed the day in style with a long
descent down the south side. This old log
structure has been shelter to thousands of
skiers since the early days of mountaineering
in the Canadian Rockies.

Day 6: Saturday – 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 7: Sunday, April 7 – 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.