What do you do when the hostel is full? You get a hotel room and make one big bed for five.
Approaching the headwall. You sneak up left of the frozen waterfall.
Heather looks like she knows what she's doing. I think she's pretty seasoned at this.
Boot-packing above the waterfall.
Boot-packing up above the waterfall.
Slogging after boot-packing the waterfall area.
We'll head up the gully to the right side of the bump, then hang a right up the snow below the ridge in the center of the photo.
After turning right and gaining some more height, Little Hector comes into view.
Little Hector in full view, we'd go around it to the left.
Blanka coming up, with Andromache dominating the background.
This is the big group of eight, taking a break.
Winding around the left side of Little Hector.
At about 800m gain, we roped up with Molar Mountain in the background, looking pretty interesting.
Looking back, you can see our other group near where we roped up.
The clouds dissipate and we get a better look at the summit block. Our route will be up to the middle col and then attacking a weakness in the left edge of the final block.
The route up is directly above the group huddling below the summit block... it was really windy and your hands would freeze in less than a minute without gloves.
Getting ready to climb the summit block.
Blanka on the summit.
On the summit!
Remember Little Hector? It looked so big earlier.
Downclimbing off the summit.
Heather fueling up before the crux downclimb.
Ben hip-belaying Heather down the crux.
Skiing out!
