Emerald Lake Archive

The Bow-Yoho Traverse is an unforgettable backcountry ski mountaineering experience exploring some of the seemingly endless and vast high altitude icefields of the Canadian Rockies. The length of the full traverse varies depending on the exact route one takes. For our group, over a 5-day period we skied from the 93N highway to Bow Hut (8km), Bow Hut to the Richard and Louise Guy Hut …

Yesterday I ran the Blackfoot Ultra 50K. I’ll post a race report once I have images. But for now I’m going to leave you in some suspense about how it went. Clearly I’m still alive, so at least you know it didn’t kill me. This post will focus instead on the last couple of weeks of training. Overall, the training went fairly well, but I …