May a Chinook come your way soon!The high country in our neck of the woods (southern Alberta portion of the Rocky Mountains backed up to the province of British Columbia on the west boundary) is taking its sweet time to usher in some spring trails and had us retreating with 3 or 4 inches of ice under the snow -with a change of plans we still found a great morning of riding on south facing slopes that were dry and managed to close in on a large herd of elk at the basin of one ridge