Here’s a fun one, straight forward approach, just a bergschrund or two to negotiate near the bottom of the slope. Beyond that get your axes and crampons out for a quick climb up some steep thin snow. Two turns looked good from 3200, but closer inspection revealed a thin, active snowpack for the first couple hundred meters (kind of like home), the snow got better quickly below that, but it was fun to use the home skills to negotiate some larger terrain. Watching large amounts of snow hit the floor a couple thousand feet down and the associated thunder of what was just a ski width point release was fun too. Snow moves a little more quickly when it’s really steep.
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