Rogers Pass - Glacier Crest - Feb 9 2009
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and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted.
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Rogers Pass - Glacier Crest - Feb 9 2009 words
and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted. |
Rogers Run Feb 6th || Swiss Peaks-Hermit Feb 7th || Cheops - STS Couloir Feb 8th || Glacier Crest Feb 9th || Avalanche Glacier Feb 10th || Grizzly Feb 12th ||Youngs Peak Traverse Feb 13th || Cheops South Feb 14th
Day four meant a lighter day. Since the forecast was for snow and low vis so we opted for a treed line that we hiked two years ago when we were riding in Revelstoke - Glacier Crest. While the conditions wouldn't allow us to get as high as we could for the hike, it did allow us to take a much more interesting route back down to the Illecillewaet Glacier!
The railgrade approach with Glacier Crest in the foreground. We wanted to make our way down the North East side of Glacier Crest.
Reminiscent of the summer trail the winter skin up was just as switch backed, steep and gnarly!
We climbed up to 1920m. The vis was getting worse, it was snowing and the higher you get the more rock slabby the terrain becomes. We also wanted to hit the slopes just above the moraine in the Illecillewaet valley.
You can see in the distance the terrain is more rocky the further along the crest you go. In a high snow year with good vis this could be an interesting place to explore!
This is not the steep part...
OH! It's getting steep now! Launce finding some pillow launches!
Lee finding some pillows to pound
Launce making his way down!
Lee in all his grace and glory!
Lee finds another one!
Launce and Lee checking out the last pillow line.
Lookout col in the background.
View back up to the many options. Warning - the skin track is tough to get to these goods!
The Yellow track shows our route for today. We pretty much followed the summer trail. We climbed to 1920m then headed north-east.
View of NE side of Glacier
Crest to Lookout Mt from Great Glacier Trail.
View of NE side
of Glacier Crest to Lookout Mt from Moraine
View towards Eagle
and Mt Sir Donald from Great Glacier Moraine
Backside of Glacier Crest.
View of Great
Glacier - Illecillewaet from Cheops
Video of Lee and Daniel Skiing the Pillows
780m of climbing in 4:40 - rest day.
Rogers Run Feb 6th || Swiss Peaks-Hermit Feb 7th || Cheops - STS Couloir Feb 8th || Glacier Crest Feb 9th || Avalanche Glacier Feb 10th || Grizzly Feb 12th ||Youngs Peak Traverse Feb 13th || Cheops South Feb 14th