South Hector, ski trip #2 of 2022 season

 With warmer temperatures in Calgary and super snowy weather in the mountains we decided to head out to Hwy93 north. This time with Andy, Stefan, Mark and Ken. We pulled over on the side of the road of Hwy93N, just 5kms from the booth. With a few kms of uphill bushwhack we managed to get to the top of the hill, found some decent snow coverage and great cornice to drop in. Once at the bottom we decided to go up a few more times. After three runs on the slope, we went to south slope where we found even better snow in the first turn... all the way down to the lake. We went up one more time, this time Ken stop 50mts before us to get a better look of the slop, Andy went down first, then me, Mark and as we are waiting for Ken and Stefan all the snow under Ken slid and almost bury him !! kind of scary moment where we were holding our breath, we had radios and were able to see him, Stefan was still on top and was waiting for Ken to recover and head down. Ken managed to get up and ski down safely. After that and checking the map we realized that Ken was standing on a snow covered cliff which with a bit of pressure just slid.

We were done for the day, headed up one more time but only to the col where we could start going down to the car. Always fun bushwhack to the car, no need for skins or headlamp :--)

Fun times, great conditions, more adventures !!     



























  


 

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