Bootpacking up Mount Currie, originally uploaded by wild_nature_addict.
Matt Gunn and I made an attempt on pencil couloir by bootpacking 7000 feet up the front of Mount Currie from the Pemberton Valley bottom. At 4:00 after 5000 feet of strenuous climbing, we sat in a bank of snow and clouds just below the couloir. Our better judgement told us to turn around to leave a daylight buffer for error. Disheartened, we skied most of the way down through mixed conditions of steep crusty, icy and cement-like snow only to turn around in time to see the sky clear and sunlight glint off the peak. For more pictures please follow this link:Mount Currie – Pencil Couloir Attempt.
Another blog entry by Nathan Bennett of Wild Nature Education and Adventures.
