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            <title><![CDATA[The Bonnington Traverse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[
I will start off by warning you that is a brief recap of the Bonnington traverse and is seriously lacking in photography to be a proper trip report. The Bonnington Traverse begins at Bombi Summit on Hwy 3 between Castlegar and Salmo, terminating in Porto Rico between Ymir and Nelson.  The traverse is in the shape of a U and has several options based on stability and time constraints.

&quot; The Crux&quot;

We started directly off the highway at Bombi summit however I have read that the road is plowed at times, saving several kilometers on the approach to the Grassy hut. The Traverse follows a snowmobile packed powerline for several kilometers before branching off east towards Grassy. Following more snowmobile packed logging roads we worked our way to the height of land on the west flank of Grassy bowl and descended to Grassy hut for our first night Finally away from old snowmobile tracks and powerlines we finally felt like we were on a traverse. Not being familiar with the area and a 3 m snowpack made the hut nearly impossible to located without a GPS. As a result a GPS is recommended on this traverse for the purpose of locating the huts, the traverse it&amp;#39;s self is quite obvious. Grassy Hut is small with two sets of bunk beds , a dinning table and a small but nicely equipped kitchen. All the huts have a wood burning stove for melt water and heating. A personal supply of white gas is required to operate the Coleman lantern and cooking stoves provided  at each hut.


Day two was another sunny day with a decent re-freeze overnight creating a supportive crust for easy travel. We topped out Grassy Mountain for a great view point of the entire traverse then proceeded to Grassy N4 keeping height of land and down below Siwash Mountain. We worked our way up the SW bowl to a col and dropped into our second destination the Steed Hut. Again this hut is difficult to located and even with the GPS we overshot it. The Steep hut was the biggest of the three. The Main room had a large dinning table, spacious living area and a small kitchen. The Steed has a loft sleeping area which made for a cozy night with a window that let the moonlight spill into the loft.  This hut could have an outhouse but we didn&amp;#39;t find it.

Day three. We worked our way up and down several ridges across the east side of Siwash eventually reaching a col landing us in Snow Water Heli&amp;#39;s cat skiing operating tenure . We skied the cat operations north facing trees to a cut block and back onto a logging road for a little over 1 km. We were surprised to see a warming hut at the end of the last cut block which belonged to the local snowmobile association. We skied behind the hut and headed east towards Copper Mountain by crossing a small drainage that signaled that we were now on the return path of the traverse. Working our way through perfect Kootenay trees we made it to our last hut of the trip. The Copper Hut. This hut might have been my favorite. It&amp;#39;s a small hut with a hobbit sized door and similar floor plan as the Grassy. A set of bunk beds and a dinning table in between them was all it had for furniture. It does has a beautiful porch for hanging out on during nicer weather. We ate as much as we could to lighter packs for the last push. Which meant drinking the three litters of wine we brought&amp;hellip; That might be why it was my favorite of the huts.
 

Mount Connor
Day four came with a fresh 15cm and strong winds and the surprise of a broken snowboard binding. We rebuilt the highback with some of the firewood enough to continue the remainder of the route.  Working our way to the ridge of Copper bowl we were afforded spectacular views of the area. The winds had worked the new snow into a mix of new cornice and both soft and stiff windslabs depending on aspect. Keeping height of land we skinned ridge after ridge , each with its own unique features this was by far the  highlight of the traverse. Once arrived on &amp;ldquo; the crux&amp;rdquo; of the traverse on territory peak we had a hard discussion about committing ourselves to the fresh slab and cornice combo. We opted for a detour to the quickie traverse route which added a lot of bushwacking and vertical to our day but more powder skiing. This meant a detour down Territory bowl and over to Dominion bowl. With fresh snow, loss of elevation the snow had turned to proper mashed potatoes and clung to our skins for the rest of the traverse. I would be lying if I told you that this was a pleasant experience but it was the safe option and we had committed to it. We worked our way up Dominion bowl to the col just as the last of the daylight was disappearing about 30 minutes after sunset. At about 20:00 we had transitioned and were making our way down the east side of Dominion by headlight and out the 10km or so of logging roads to Porto Rico. Thankfully this was all down hill and no skinning was involved. We could have stayed at the huckleberry hut for a fourth night but having to be at work for 6:30am the following morning it just wasn&amp;#39;t in the cards for our party.
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Hut on the Bonnington Traverse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Bonnington Traverse is a popular 4 to 5 day ski traverse just outside of Nelson BC and consists of four huts, Grassy Hut, Steed Hut, Copper Hut and Huckleberry Hut. The full details of the traverse can be found here along with skiing options at each hut. Of all the huts on the traverse I had yet to locate Copper Hut, so a later summer hike was in order to confirm the coordinates in preparation for this winters traverse. Summer access to Copper Hut is easiest by driving up the May Jenny road in Blewett for approximately 10km until you reach a saddle between Copper Mountain and Red Mountain. From here it&amp;#39;s a short 2km hike along a quad trail over the south shoulder of Copper Mountain and onto its south east face. The quad trail then descends about 100 metres and leads directly to the cabin.
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The Cabin sleeps six comfortably and was recently upgraded from its former semi-dilapidated state. Once you crouch through the four foot high entrance door you&amp;rsquo;ll find four bunks, awood stove and cooking supplies. All you&amp;#39;ll need to bring is white gas and a supply of TP (toilet paper).
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Watch your head on the mini door.

If you&amp;#39;re interested in booking the Copper Hut you can do that over here with the Kootenay Mountaineering Club at a cost of $10/person/night. For full details on finding Copper Hut check out our Garmin Fenix GPS data here. Climbing Copper Mountain is pretty straight forward but that data can be found here and incidentally this peak would provide pretty nice ski lines right back to the cabin door in winter!
Smokey skies from Copper Mountain.

The Route in from Blewett.

Copper Hut looking South East.
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            <pubDate>2015-08-24 11:43:18</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Skiing the Bonnington in Mar. 2015]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Anyone ski the Bonnington latley?&amp;nbsp; Good?&amp;nbsp; Bad?&amp;nbsp; Indiffernt?&amp;nbsp; Any info would be great!]]></description>
            <pubDate>2015-03-10 21:49:31</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Huckleberry Hut = plenty of backcountry options]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is no better time than right now to get into the mountains and do a little recon for winter ski touring adventures. With Huckleberry Hut being only a 7km walk (1600&amp;rsquo; elevation gain over 1.5 hrs) from the parking spot on Porto Rico Road just south of Nelson BC and sunny skies it was the ideal opportunity for my son and I to check out the cabin and terrain.



The cabin sleeps 4 people on two bunks quite uncomfortably and there is a fold down table that makes the cabin quite roomy while cooking or playing cards.


The road which takes you up to the alpine is literally littered with big juicy huckleberries, which explains the namesake of the cabin.



You may see the odd Grouse pecking around on the roads and trails on your walk up to the multiple mine sites that you can explore in the alpine (be sure not to actually go inside them though).


Views from Midday peak include a good portion of the Bonnington Traverse. That&amp;rsquo;s Grassy Mountain on the left and Siwash Mountain on the right side of the photo which are the locations for the first two huts along the Bonnington Traverse, Grassy Hut and Steed Cabin.&amp;nbsp;


Grassy Mountain offers several backcountry ski routes just above Grassy Hut&amp;nbsp;which is located just below the saddle in the middle left of the photo.


Siwash Mountain has incredible ski touring terrain with Steed Cabin located directly in the centre bowl.


Looking to the North East it&amp;rsquo;s easy to see Whitewater&amp;rsquo;s Glory Ridge terrain, along with popular backcountry ski locations White Queen, Half Dome and Ymir Peak.


Directly North of Midday Peak is Cabin Peak, an aptly named peak since it lies directly above Huckleberry Hut, or should I say cabin? The backcountry ski terrain which is accessible from Huckleberry Hut is all detailed over here in our routes section.


If you are looking for an easy access summer hiking location for kids then this cabin is it. Or, if you want an easy access winter backcountry skiing objective then Huckleberry Hut offers that up as well. You can book the cabin on the Kootenay Mountaineering web site for $10/person/night.

Some of the gear that we took along on our trip that we also reviewed here on the site are the Suunto Ambit2 which captured all the GPS data you see below on the maps, the super light and convenient&amp;nbsp;GSI Pinnacle Dualist Pots, the light, convenient and incredibly delicious&amp;nbsp;Mountain House Freeze Dried Foods. The protein packed Bounce Balls, MSR&amp;#39;s Whisperlite Universal Stove that works with almost any fuel, the&amp;nbsp;Vapur Anti-Bottles&amp;nbsp;including their new Micro Filter 1L anti-bottle which we are currently reviewing. The Mont Bell Down Hugger 900 Sleeping Bag which is the perfect cabin bag, the Osprey Aether 85 Pack which was recently updated, the&amp;nbsp;Oboz Beartooth Boots&amp;nbsp;which are waterproof and oh-so-comfortable, the&amp;nbsp;Westcomb Tango Hoody with Polartec Alpha insulation. The&amp;nbsp;Montane Air Jacket with eVent waterproof/breathable fabric, the Black Diamond Ultra Mountain Carbon Trekking Poles which are super light, the&amp;nbsp;Kuhl Raptr Convertible Pants&amp;nbsp;which easily go from pants to shorts and the down insulated Exped DownMat UL 7&amp;nbsp;which is the lightest down mat we have tested to date.

As you can see from the map below the access is pretty straight forward along gravel roads and old over-grown mining / quad trails. Access this map here.

 
Once at the cabin accessing the alpine is only a short 1000&amp;rsquo; climb up the road where you are spit out on the saddle below Cabin Peak and Midday Peak. Access this map here.


For all the stats, times and coordinates on Huckleberry Hut, hiking routes, access and many more adventures check out our Suunto Moves Count page here.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2014-09-10 11:12:25</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[bombi bums]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Heads up for anyone doing the bonnington traverse. We saw the post below, made sure to leave nothing in the car and returned to drilled/hammered lock and a rummaged car. The two other cars in the lot also had the same welcome back present..... They stole a bag of chips and a usb charger.
Police cant do anything apparently. Maybe a baseball bat?

http://www.gravsports-ice.com/.....#Post13851]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-03-13 16:14:56</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COMP - Hut Lux]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[When we first spy the hut it&amp;#39;s the best feeling. We crank open the door and find a cold locker. But soon, wood chopped and fire lit, the house is hot and we are warming up. Chop the wood, melt the water. A woodstove is the source of all good things.


The senses are brought to life in a tiny hut on a cold winter night. We are in the Bonnington Range, eating and sleeping in the one-time miner&amp;rsquo;s cabin, Huckleberry. Spending the night in a winter hut is more lux than a five-star hotel in Van, no doubt. You realize, spending a night in a winter hut, how little you need to be properly housed. It&amp;rsquo;s your tiny house for a small fee, your chateau for the night.&amp;nbsp;

Time slows way down in the absence of electricity and clocks and refrigerators.&amp;nbsp;You could stay for many nights, happily. The closest relative to the hut is the sauna; the bringer of heat inside aged wood. Instead of shivering in a tent, we sweat inside as our clothes steam. We lie on top of our sleeping bags and treasure the cold air that seeps through the rough-hewn timber. Outside, overnight, snow falls in preparation for our tour off Cabin Peak the next morning.&amp;nbsp;

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            <pubDate>2013-02-28 14:15:21</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[bonnington conditions?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Any one been in to the huts the last week or so, doing a trip at the end of the month and want to know if there is enough snow.
GS
\m/&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; rockon]]></description>
            <pubDate>2013-02-12 17:48:31</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Years: Grassy Hut on the Bonnington Traverse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Every second New Years a contingent of the Backcountry Skiing Canada team descends upon Grassy Hut for two days of ski touring in the Bonnington Range Near near Nelson BC. This is the first hut on the Bonnington Traverse and is the only one with a &quot;sled-free&quot; designation. As usual the ski in was very easy and the hut itself was in great shape &amp;ndash; thanks to everyone out there who is doing their part. We had New Years Eve and New Years Day to litterally lap up Grassy Mountain&amp;#39;s offerings. The snow was not super deep but it sure was super stable, you could ski literally anywhere. Contrary to the preceding groups claims that they &quot;Schralped the entire mountain&quot;, there was plenty of terrain left for us. Luckily the group before did not have great vis or navigational skills as they completely missed &quot;Green Mile&quot; the longest and best ski on Grassy Mountain at over 1600&amp;#39; of vert. Over the two days we made 7 summits of Grassy Mountain and 7 descents of Green Mile, over and over, up and down. Having been in this neck of the woods over a half dozen times before had it&amp;#39;s advantages so our up track was uber efficient and we were able to work it pretty efficiently.&amp;nbsp;
This is one of the best kept &quot;cabin secrets&quot; and it is getting busier, so if you want to sample it you best get on it.

Terrain on Grassy Mountain:

Grassy Hut has (in my opinion) the best views of sunrise and best skiing anywhere on the Bonnington Traverse. For all the hut details, you can find them over here on the Interior Mountains Lodging page. To learn more about the access to the hut and the route for the entire Bonnington traverse have a read on our routes page here.

Surrounding Grassy Hut are 13 ski touring routes that you will want to research before you head in as one of them (Sunshine) can be skied on the way out for a nice final fare-well. Check out all the routes in our route section for Grassy Hut here.
We GPS&amp;#39;ed out ski tour in and out as well as our up and down on &quot;Green Mile&quot;. This info can be found with all the data you would ever want on our Suunto Moves Count page. For the ski in via &quot;7k&quot; have a read here, for the &quot;Green Mile&quot; lap check it out here and for the ski out via &quot;Sunshine&quot; give &amp;#39;er a click here.
The ski in:

Lapping &quot;Green Mile:

The ski out via &quot;Sunshine&quot;:

 
A video all about Grassy hut:






An early video of some of the skiing around the hut:






Some pics of the trip:





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            <pubDate>2013-01-05 21:22:51</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[13 new routes at Grassy in the Bonningtons]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is lots of great skiing to be had at Grassy hut in the Bonnington Range and we have just posted 13 new routes for your skiing pleasure. Grassy Hut is only a 4 hours ski tour in from the Bomby Summit near Castlegar and costs $10/night, sleeps 6 and gives you incredible skiing in your own private area free of sledders. Have a read over the Grassy Hut Routes here or find out more about Grassy Hut itself, here.

The Hut does not see too much winter traffic, mostly just from those completing the Bonnington Traverse which we also have all the beta on here.

Do yourself a favour and book the Hut for a few days to see what it has to offer - you won&amp;#39;t be disappointed.

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            <pubDate>2011-06-18 11:54:32</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bonnington Traverse Video]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Here&amp;#39;s an edit I did of the Bonnington Traverse near Nelson, BC,&amp;nbsp;from early April, 2011. It&amp;#39;s a bit long but there&amp;#39;s some good footage of the terrain and huts&amp;hellip;enjoy.





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            <pubDate>2011-05-20 16:38:04</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Huckleberry Hut area / Bonnington Range near Nelson, BC]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Just back from&amp;nbsp;2  sunny&amp;nbsp;days at the Huckleberry.&amp;nbsp; The 20 cm that fell on Thursday has settled out  to about 10 with the warming.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I probed ~3m at the hut (1550m) and found wet  grains down about a metre.
Timing and aspect  were key as everything seems to have been temperature affected&amp;nbsp;right to  ridgetop.&amp;nbsp; We had a good freeze&amp;nbsp;overnight and woke to ~15cm surface crust on May  1 but it was laminated (5cm melt-freeze, 5cm new rounds, 5cm melt-freeze).&amp;nbsp; Good  spring skiing on Midday (NE) and Cabin (SE) peaks.&amp;nbsp;
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The snowpack held up  remarkably well to the day time heating.&amp;nbsp; Apart from minor surface sluffing on  the steeps I saw only one old size 1.5 on the south aspect of Commonwealth  Peak.&amp;nbsp; Cornices were plenty big on E-NE aspects though.
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We skied the  drainage below the hut down to Barrett Creek (instead of following the road)&amp;nbsp;on  the way out to check the exit and found the old logging road (now&amp;nbsp;flagged)&amp;nbsp;that  lead us up to the Barrett FSR.&amp;nbsp; This is a neat exit with some&amp;nbsp;fun skiing&amp;nbsp;if you  get down before the heat of the day.
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See more pics at http://mountainsense.ca/galler.....emId=11051
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Cheers,
Shaun King&amp;nbsp; ACMG / UIAGM Mountain Guide
Mountain Sense Guiding &amp;amp;  Instruction
http://www.mountainsense.ca&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
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            <pubDate>2011-05-02 14:57:48</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[PHOTO COMP  New Years Day, Grassy Hut]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Six o&amp;rsquo;clock in the morning and you&amp;rsquo;re buried in a sleeping bag. Two hut mates clomp around on the slat floor and take turns whispering dream sequences. They laugh. At first you&amp;rsquo;re annoyed until you remember where you are: Grassy Hut, Bonnington Range, New Year&amp;rsquo;s Day. You peek past down and spy a crackle of light coming from the wood stove. Visible warmth. You smell smoke, snow, and kerosene. Propping your head up on an elbow, you turn your gaze to the tiny four-paned window. The sky is lightening over the mountains to the east and you roll over, stand up, hike your sleeping bag around your shoulders and hop out the door to get a better view.

Within minutes the sky turns the colour of bruised plum: purple and fleshy. Chickadees twitter in a pine nearby; their voices like giggles against your friends&amp;rsquo; guffaws. The world brightens. The sky changes shape &amp;ndash; clouds pass, colours fuse. Suddenly you&amp;rsquo;re staring at a shade that is best described as cotton candy pink.

More morning noises. A crow sounds off &amp;ndash; guttural utterances that reverberate through the mist hovering over its valley. White returns to the world &amp;ndash; trees, clouds, yesterday&amp;rsquo;s tracks &amp;ndash; they all pop forth from the grey.

Then the sky changes again. Pink hues are replaced by cobalt. Jet tailings brighten against the blue. Behind you the fire pops and you step away from the door to bathe in a different form of light &amp;ndash; a yellow glow that warms your toes. Eventually, you return to your mattress and curl up listening to the sound of the wood stove ping &amp;ndash; like a party of mice swing-dancing on tin.

You daydream of deep snow, sunshine and smiles.]]></description>
            <pubDate>2011-03-31 13:02:53</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[PHOTO COMP - Picture this in the Bonningtons]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Picture this - You spend most of a day skinning up a powerline imagining and fantasizing about the amazing lines you are going to ride from the backcountry hut that you are headed to.
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Then picture this &amp;ndash; You get to that hut check out the terrain and it is even better than you imagined&amp;nbsp; and on top of that as you are climbing the sun comes out and you know you are going to have a bluebird day.


Then picture this &amp;ndash; you do some snow study and your ruche block fails on a 2&amp;hellip; and a 3!



Picture -how bummed you&amp;nbsp; would be that you couldn&amp;rsquo;t ride the big face&amp;hellip; but then picture how happy you are that you dug a pit and are still alive while riding the low angle and the trees and they are picture perfect. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;

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            <pubDate>2011-03-25 21:14:42</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just got back from Grassy Hut.&amp;nbsp; Was a great 3 days in the Bonningtons.&amp;nbsp;
The skin was a bit of a slug - the first 6 km were along a powerline with sleds whipping by you every once and a while.&amp;nbsp; Once we got to the hut it was all good though.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We had no problems finding it despite warnings about how difficult it was to locate.&amp;nbsp; I guess we can attibute that to good directions from this site and good visability.&amp;nbsp; There is a lot of amazing terrain that is accessible right from the hut door.&amp;nbsp; There is also the massive south face of Grassy Mountain that is only a 40 min skin.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately/fortunately we had a lot of sun while we were there so when we did a rusheblock test on the face we had a failure at 2... back to the trees.
Good food, good terrain, good weather.
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            <pubDate>2011-03-09 12:18:25</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grassy Hut in the Bonningtons - MOVIE]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A classic Kootenay new years eve trip to Grasy Hut mid way between Nelson and Rossland in the Bonnington Range of the Selkirks Mountians provided some great turns and picture perfect conditions &amp;ndash; &amp;#39;gold&amp;#39; as they say.


We had three nights at the hut after the 8km tour in and conditions were super solid with 15 &amp;ndash; 20cm of fresh fluffy goodness. Thanks to the arctic air mass in the valleys we actually had somewhat mild temps up high in comparison and the inversion provided an incredible backdrop for skiing.


After skiing two full days on Grassy Mountain there was still plenty left for the next group but it was super hard to leave such a great place with long fall line skiing, great light snow and no one else in sight. We had feared the sun may cook the south aspect of Grassy Mountain but it was just cold enough to keep everything light and fluffy.


Looking forward to doing it all over again soon &amp;ndash; check out the vid below to see what the terrain has to offer.





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            <pubDate>2011-01-04 15:18:11</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bonnington Traverse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We have just added the famous (at least locally) Bonnington Traverse to our quiver of routes under its own page called conveniently enough &quot;Bonningtons&quot;. It outlines the four or five day traverse through the Bonnington Range of the Selkirks and details route info, times and elevation changes as well as a description of the skiing around each of the four cabins (which we will be expanding upon shortly).&amp;nbsp;


Have a look here and let us know your thoughts.
Need info on each of the huts (Grassy, Steed, Copper and Huckleberry)&amp;nbsp;on the traverse? then look over here for all that info.

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            <pubDate>2011-01-04 13:02:40</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Photo Comp - Commonwealth Peak]]></title>
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It is still early season. &amp;nbsp;Proven by the countless logs and tree humping needed to reach the base of Commonwealth Peak in Kananaskis. &amp;nbsp;After a couple hours of perseverance, we were rewarded with some good early season snow and a beautiful view of the peak. &amp;nbsp;After skiing the fan we continued down the other side of the pass to Commonwealth Creek, down a snow covered waterfall, through some more bushes, and back to the car. &amp;nbsp;Several scratches later, we are all feeling a bit better about the world, and we can sleep easy knowing that the terrain needs a few more blankets of that fluffy white stuff before it gets really good ]]></description>
            <pubDate>2010-12-14 15:15:18</pubDate>
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