Ah, so Cromwell does have something worth skiing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThis was our last night, and we had a relatively easy day ahead, so we let the sun pack some real heat before rising. An easygoing camp break got us away by 11:30, and we skied off toward the Kitchener-Snowdome col. Once there, we removed packs completely, and made the incredibly gentle ascent to Kitchener. Then we skied back down the skintrack to the col and made our way up Snowdome. At the top, the intention was to ski the south face, rather than make the long circumnav like we did on the way to the twins. We aimed in what I thought was the direction to the lower sneak through the many crevasse zones on the south face. It turns out I didn’t go far enough, and after some deliberation, we decided to make a little climb to go to the upper sneak, which looked to be much easier to hit. After some good skiing on moderate slopes we were skiing down towards the Athabasca ramp, marveling at how gnarly the crevasse zones on Snowdome were, and later how much of a needle thread the lower route is. Down the ramp, past the seracs and down the glacier tongue, past the Brewster monster trucks and back to civilization. Nine 11,000 ft summits, around 80km of exploring, (very roughly) 4500m of ascent, four days.<\/p>\n
With all the RATM news lately, here’s some classic Rage to get ya goin’<\/p>\n