After exploring Wolverine Ridge on Saturday, Kyle, Skyler, Christine, and I were looking to tick another new line of our to do list and the Little Sifton Traverse seemed like a pretty damn perfect objective.

The Little Sifton Traverse takes you up Grizzly Shoulder, across Little Sifton, and down the Hermit drainage all in only about 1400m of elevation gain so even with a short day we figured it’d be a pretty manageable objective.

Stability wasn’t perfect, but we’d spent some time exploring the Hermit side of things the weekend before and I’ve spent enough time up Grizzly Shoulder that I was pretty confident that we could manage that side of things and that really just left the connector between the two which on topo maps looked pretty straight forward. Ultimately, we felt that we could safely complete the Little Sifton Traverse - and hey, skiing back down Grizzly Shoulder would make for one hell of a consolation prize if we got to a point where we decided it would be more prudent to turn around.

The day didn’t start off feeling like it would be successful though. Down by the Rogers Pass Discovery Centre, the weather was miserable. It was a little chilly, totally socked in, and basically just looked slightly miserable down low - but we were pretty certain that if we gained a little elevation we’d see a temperature inversion similar to what we’d seen the day before. An inversion meant we would probably be getting above the miserable weather.