{"id":2730,"date":"2011-01-18T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:45:59","slug":"to-moraine-lake-with-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"To Moraine Lake with Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Winter the road to Moraine Lake is closed and becomes a ski trail.  It&#8217;s 9km to the Moraine Lake viewpoint, mostly uphill (in a rolling sort of way, the first 4km has a lot more steep sections than the last 5km).  Very do-able towing a Chariot, although we were hoping for better views.  Also you&#8217;re in the shade for good chunks of the way if you ski it in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG1973\/1161871557_3XC7w-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Clear roads as we drive out<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0576\/1161872629_Agkaf-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Skiing up the closed road &#8211; the ski trail to Moraine Lake<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0588\/1161873531_nGygx-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Everyone else had either turned off or turned back by the 4km mark, so we started trail breaking.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0593\/1161874353_SEYcu-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Finally at the Moraine Lake viewpoint (this is where the groomed trail ends &#8211; which was irrelevant in our case, as the groomers had been trapped in Field by avalanche closures &#8211; but after this point the road to the lake also crosses a few avalanche paths, so it was our stopping point)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG1976\/1161875338_sjd8M-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>The view down to Moraine Lake. Less exciting when covered with snow.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:348px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0603\/1161877227_Ku27b-M.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Heading down again &#8211; well, it was supposed to be down, really it was just lots of slogging still.  After 3km I gave in and let Alex tow again.  Not long afterwards there were actually a couple of reasonable downhill sections.  Bah.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0613\/1161869780_wiyBq-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Getting a bit cooler as the day wears on, hair frosting up<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/Snow\/Canada-Snow-2010-2011\/IMG0614\/1161870398_jCbQV-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Sun setting, we got back to the car about 15 minutes after this<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Winter the road to Moraine Lake is closed and becomes a ski trail. It&#8217;s 9km to the Moraine Lake viewpoint, mostly uphill (in a rolling sort of way, the first 4km has a lot more steep sections than the last 5km). Very do-able towing a Chariot, although we were hoping for better views. Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1,1270,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-general","category-moosling","category-snow"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=24\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1270\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">moosling<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=14\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">snow<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">canada<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">moosling<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">snow<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"2","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 15 years ago","modified":"Updated 15 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 18.1.2011","modified":"Updated on 19.1.2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 18.1.2011 1:18 pm","modified":"Updated on 19.1.2011 3:45 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}