Steve, Ed and I spent the day playing in some deep snow on trail and off. First we had re-break the trail in from the Bisquit Brook PA to the usual jump off point, after the leanto, for Fir. Then we began to follow an old track meandering in an odd direction that eventually got over to the usual route. It saved us some energy we for deeper snow we would find later. Swapping leads on the track until we lost it do to wind blown snow at which point Steve wandered up to the summit area pushing through the deeper fluff. We walked right by the canister fortunately Ed saw it before we got too far away. After perusing the register notebook went on search for a possible old track to Big Indian......no luck so we are going in deep!