ICEFALL TRAVERSE 2025

The Icefall Traverse is a hut-to-hut traverse through some of the best ski touring terrain in Canada. You will travel through complex glacier terrain past some of the highest peaks in the range carrying only a light pack. This may sound like the Haute Route or other tours in the Alps. The only difference is that you won’t see anybody else around, just the group that you helicoptered in with. This traverse incorporates the two newest huts in Canada. The Rostrum Cabin was built in 2019, and the Alexandra Cabin in 2020. It also stops at the Lyell Hut, Mons Hut and the more comfortable Icefall Lodge. You will have exclusive use of 5 mountain huts with just a small group. In the right conditions, this traverse can allow you to ski 3 of the longest runs in Canada, all over 7000 feet vertical.

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Fitness Level:

You should be an advanced downhill skier and in good physical condition to do this traverse. It is backcountry skiing and there may be variable conditions with anything from powder to frozen crud, breakable crust, moist snow or corn. You must be able to ski in control in any of these conditions to avoid hazards such as crevasses or cliffs.

For the uphill you will have 7 days in a row of touring. There is only one lodge where you spend 2 nights and can have a rest day; the rest are travel days.

The biggest day is From the Alexandra Cabin to the Lodge. It involves 1500m of climbing and 4 km of valley bottom travel.