Headway Systems: Campbell Icefields

Travel day to Campbell Icefields DAY 1 - Arrival at Campbell Lodge DAY 2 - Trees below lodge Our trip starts in Donald which is just west of Golden, B.C. It was a warm cloudy day when we loaded the helicopter for the short flight into the lodge. It's amazing that we can squeeze all that gear into the helicopter plus 16 bodies.

Lift off	Arriving at the lodge
We quickly dumped our gear into the lodge, spent and hour or two practicing transceiver searches and hit the slopes behind the lodge.
Day 2. Tree skiing below the lodge. Before heading out for the day Jesse de Montigny , our custodian and soon to be assistant ACMG ski guide, and his wife Christine, offered to show us the procedure for locating a deep burial.

Roy, John B. and Christine dug a two meter deep pit and buried a pack.	Jesse demonstrating how to approach and locate the buried pack.
It was socked in and snowing heavily for most of the day so we broke into groups and skied the trees below the lodge. Thanks to Jesse for showing us some amazing tree slopes that we hadn't found the previous year.
There were huge snow bombs to watch out for. You wouldn't want to be hit by one of them.	Jesse finds a huge tree to hug.


John and Ena enjoying the steep and deep snow. You take the left, I'll take the right.

Roy and Steve pushing walls of snow. Darn, that was good!