the hike up to thompson-seton was not as challenging as I expected. There was a bunch of snow on the way and the ice ax was a handy tool to bring along. Plenty of trees down also, there were about a dozen from the trail head to Inuya pass and another dozen or so to the notch, beyond I couldn’t tell because the snow was seriously deep. Having said that, it was easy to follow the trail so far even given plenty of old snow drifts on the way, which were up to three feet deep. The creeks were also a challenge to cross on dry feet, in a fun way, though. From the notch on there was no way to follow the trail, solid snow cover for most of the way and I just worked my way to the summit via the ridges, a combination of scree scrambling, walking on cornices and traverses… another rocky mountain high!