The Great Divide Traverse completed
The Great Divide Traverse from Jasper to Lake Louise was first completed in 1967 by Chic Scott and his team. Since then it has developed a reputation as a true test piece for backcountry skiing that has only seen very few repeats. An expedition of four ACC members: Carsten Moldenhauer (Rocky Mountain), Gerry Heacock (Edmonton), Daniel Robb (Rocky Mountain), and Edward McCarthy (Vancouver) successfully completed the 320km long traverse from April 3 to 22nd.
They had this to say on their web site:
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We're done! Literally. We just skiied the last leg today and are happy to have finally finished the trip.
In short words for now: The trip was a great adventure. Lots of great weather, bad weather, wonderful as well as very critical situations, no major injuries, avalanches, crevasse and creek falls, broken equipment, food shortage, exhaustion, great friendship. Name it, we've had it all.
The trip took us 20 days, including two complete rest days and two days that were partial rest days due to conditions (sitting out weather or avalanche threat).
We'll update the website soon with lots of information. Stay tuned for lots of pictures, our exact google earth track, GPS tracks, information on caches, route information and much more.
Also, there will be most likely a public presentation about the trip.
Now we're celebrating with lots of burgers, beer and deserts!
Thanks to all the people who helped to make this trip a great success, in particular our families for their support, Kellen and Ed for meeting us at Alexandra, and many other people!
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We will be sure to post some more info and pics when they become available.