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Since all of my ski touring buddies were either sick or busy, I elected to do a 'Shred List' day
with my ski guide buddy Neil Warren. Today's objective was Ogden bench with a hope for decent
conditions since the bulk of K country is still quite dry. Bow Summit was showing ~65cm height
of snow so we weren't sure what we'd find here. The trail up to Ogden brings us up along Sherbrooke Lake.
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Once we climbed above the avalanche debris trees, we got up to a bench with Ogden headwall
spitting dry sluffs at us. We chose to take the far right climbing skin track, unlike the
hooligans who went ahead of us and got dusted.
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Paul, Liam, and Dave enjoying a snack break in the sunshine. It was glorious weather with no wind
about -5 deg C, and perfect bluebird.
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A nice look down valley towards Cathedral Peak and the approach up to Lake O'hara.
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Spacing out to get us across the active zone. Skiing over this had lots of avalanche debris,
so even with a Moderate-Low-Low day, it was still valuable to zip through this zone quickly.
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Neil put in a very comfortable skin track up into the alpine.
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Paul from High River with a glorious day in the Rockies.
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Neil checking snow with a pit on the aspect we were planning on skiing. Very limited movement
in the snowpack with less sun crust than I would have thought, even with a south aspect.
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Neil about ready to drop into a great ski line from the high point of the Ogden bench.
Liam dropping off into a great ski line
Dave enjoying the 30cm storm snow on his split board
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Looking back up at our tracks. We chose to drop a bit early as there were other groups considering
their lines, so we took our opportunity first.
