Bugaboos to Rogers Pass Traverse

At the end of our first day of an 93 mile ski traverse I captured this image of Dirk Bockelman and Christy Mahon surveying the Conrad ice fields and our next days effort on the ten day traverse from the Bugaboos to Rogers Pass in British Columbia. -Art Burrows

“We encountered the full spectrum of conditions. Big cornices often loomed at the start of ski descents and had to be avoided, and route-finding across crevassed glaciers was a regular issue. A huge snowpack from a winter that refused to let go required constant attention with regard to avalanches, not to mention a big effort in the trail breaking. The fickle BC weather did its best to try to derail us, at one point forcing us to descend 5,000 feet to the valley floor to move north along the river in better visibility, and then climb back up rather than try to recklessly navigate a broken ice field in whiteout conditions.”
- Ted Mahon

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot