Backdated TR: Mica Dam to Blue River

Some old stoke for the new season:

In spring of 2019 I got to tag along with some friends to ski a short portion of their Columbia's ski traverse from Mica Dam to Blue River. The previous year my friends had also completed the Great Divide Traverse, and I was loathe to completely watch from the sidelines again providing weather updates from Saskatoon. Although I was completing a masters degree at the time, I managed to get permission to sneak off for the week and shred some pow on a short portion of my friends vision quest. Since this trip I have not been able to get in another traverse, work, and covid have conspired against me. While I didn't get rad, I wasn't idle. I was biding my time teaching my wife how to ski tour, getting some short spring camping trips in with her, and lining up a more flexible job. My wife doesn't know it yet but I am slowly training her for a soft introduction to traversing on the Wapta or the Bonnington either this year or next. I have been slow to learn that there is more to life then skiing big lines and long traverses (;

Here's to a new year of shredding, seeing friends north of the border again, and hopefully leaving covid (mostly) behind!

Full Traverse Attempt

P.S. I will be back in the Yak come December. If anyone wants to tour locally let me know! I only have three ski partners in the Yak including Filbo and my wife. Down for both big and small days.