David Gast led a tour to the Swede Shelter, enjoying the longer intermediate. The snow was soft and the trail had been skied recently so they did not get to enjoy breaking trail. 

The several short steep downhill sections require one to be able to negotiate long moderately steep and short steep hills as outlined in the requirements for intermediate tours. The side hill section of about 1/4  mile in length on the trail between Swede shelter back towards swampy was tricky as usual but there was plenty of soft snow and it was not icy. We had minor issues with snow sticking to skis which reapplying of glide wax got our skis back to gliding happily.