Lake Louise hasn't reported their snowfall yet, but things look be better than average. The Skoki snow plot is showing a top 25% year to date.
I have friends who have skied around lake louise (the lake - a snowier side of the valley), with some success. The Bow summit area (30 minutes up 93north from lake louise) is skiing great.
What to expect? It's tough to say. It's the second weekend of the season. Usually there is more than Wiwaxy, but no guarantees. Sometimes most of the mountain is open.
My notes from that same weekend last year:
"Lake Louise has really come along from modest opening. The back bowls base is at 85cm, which is still rock ski territory, but reasonable. The Summit Platter is open with front side options and Boomerang on the back. The Paradise chair and Paradise bowl are also open, as is Top of the World Chair. I feel we are close to getting Ptarmigan and Larch going (and the gondola, i guess!)"
And the year before:
"skied at Lake Louise both days last weekend. It was really great! They opened all lifts on Saturday, so we were able to catch fresh tracks on a lot of new terrain. The Ptarmigan, Raven, and Lynx runs were skiing great with few hazards.
Lake Louise has received over 2 feet of snow since last weekend, and conditions are much improved. The high traverse to the summit from top of the world, which was brutal last week, is now blocked off by the World Cup course. Everyone needs to go skiers left to start now. This traverse if rocky, but there are some clean lines. The entrance to Saddleback is also clean.
It snowed Saturday night, all day Sunday, and again last night. We were skiing powder and cut up snow all weekend. The base is now 116 in the back bowls, but it is unconsolidated...so you will still find rocks. I had a really nasty ding when I found a shark on the North Cornice area. I also tweaked my knee hitting unseen deadfall in the trees around the old eagle lift. I also saw a boarder get seriously hurt charging into a rock field, and falling onto more rock. So be careful out there! There is some untracked snow below the snow fence at the top of top of the world....It's open, but there is no clean way though. Stay away!
The really steep stuff is closed (still waiting on 50% of the runs), and the lower mountain is limited to Wiwaxy, but it is really good for early season!
Similar snow at Sunshine....still no rumblings about early openings in BC."
Could be okay. If you only have wiwaxy at Louise, go to sunshine. If Louise gets paradise open, go to Louise.
Bring rock skis. I always destroy my gear in November. Open does not mean rock free (or anywhere near rock free).
