Marmot Basin Kananaskis

October 27, 2018 by Bill Rowe ·

Marmot Basin and Mt Collembola

October 15th 2018

Marmot Basin trail starts at the Nakiska Ski Resort. Or ribbon Creek or Troll falls Parking. We started at Nakiska Ski Resort parking lot as it is the shortest distance. The trail uses the Skogan Ski trail. From the Lodge walk to the left passed a container hidden in the trees, under the ski lift. This becomes a road so follow it to the left to join the Skogan Pass trail on your right. Turn left onto the upper Marmot Basin Road used for the Upper Lodge access. Stay straight on the old road as it bends left to go to the ski hill upper lodge. Note this is where we went a bit wrong we turned off the old road on a track that parallels it and got to far left, had we stayed on the old road as we did on the way back we would have come to the washed out bridge at the twin creeks. After the bridge the trail drops down to the right and then left to start the switch backs. Hours of snowshoe plodding and we reached the turn to Fisera Ridge . At this point we were knackerd so went passed the left turn to the ridge and came out into the treed valley of Marmot Basin. I will leave the Fisera Ridge for a summer s day and possible a trek up to Mt Collembolla. On the way down with the 1 meter plus of snow we chopped off the switchbacks to save distance and time. A lot of walking or snowshoeing in the trees make this a less interesting hike. I also forgot my camera so used my phone. Then some how managed to delete my track. So the track I show is the route we followed. Without which we would have been totally lost.