Healy Pass

Trail Name: Healy Pass
Activity: Alpine Touring/Backcountry Skiing

Distance: ~19 km (RT)

Altitude: 2,300 m

Elevation Gain: ~700 m

Area: Banff National Park

Crew: Bennett

Time to Summit: ?

Trailhead: Sunshine Village Gondola Parking

Getting There:

From the Trans-Canada (Hwy 1), take the exit to Sunshine Resort and park in the lot (there is a backcountry lot past the hoards of resort-ski-vehicles, if you get there early enough there may be space).

Additional Info:

Bennett and I really wanted to get out on this weekend so we chose some simple terrain where we could just get a solid hike in/a beautiful day outdoors. The approach is quite long but we enjoyed it immensely!

Single photo day.

Vermilion Peak

Trail Name: Vermilion Peak
Activity: Alpine Touring/Backcountry Skiing

Distance: ~7 km (RT)

Altitude: 2,647 m

Elevation Gain: ~950 m (to turnaround point)

Area: Kootenay National Park

Crew: Bennett, Glen, Andrea, Tom

Time to Summit: ?

Trailhead: Paint Potts Parking Lot

Getting There:

From the Trans-Canada (Hwy 1), head south on the Kootenay Highway (Hwy 93). Take the right-hand turn into the Paint Potts Parking Lot

Additional Info:

Cross the highway and head South. You'll see the avi slidepath after a few clicks. We went up to the right of this, in the dense trees. We got some nice cloud inversion, stellar views, and stellar turns this day!! We then headed to Panorama from here to meet the Baes at Jules' cabin. What a weekend.

The next set of photos may contain every photo I've ever taken in my whole life (aka. there are A LOT! I'm sorry! It's hard to narrow down photos!)

 Classic Slef.

 Pound it (not a BD Ad, I swear)

 Tight trees! (This wasn't even the bad part)

Ben. 

 Inversion!

 Boot packin'

 Back in!

 Lunch skis to sit on.

 Some soup-de-scoop

 Climbin', skinnin', risin'

 Gorgeous.

 Trees thinning out...

 Got some fresh turns.

 You go, Glen Coco.

 Navigating some rocks.

Everyone (minus Tom!)